Mayday! Mayday! It's another photo puzzle!

Mayday! Mayday! It's another photo puzzle! by gentle lemur posted 1 May 2021 at 10:21 AM

The latest photo puzzle has 28 images, which I hope are still big enough to recognise. You lucky people!

I have followed my usual rules:

• the animals come from all 5 classes of vertebrates
  
  
• all the creatures are facing forwards or to the left.
  
  
• they all have something in common.
  
  
• you will need to work out their English names,
  
  
• the photos are arranged in order, but I expect that you will need to identify several species before you can work out what the order is
  
  
• one of these creatures is the odd one out – can you find it and explain why it is rather different?

On the whole, I think many of the species are not too hard to work out, but there are some tricky ones. There are no domestic animals this time, but there are a few native European species. This time I have checked their English names against Zootierliste (I actually had to exclude two species because that website did not include the name I normally use).
Please contact me by PM if you have any questions.
To give everyone a fair chance, please do not post any answers in this thread until noon UST (1 pm BST) on Friday May 7th.

 

This thread is now open for answers to this puzzle.

 

I have the order, but no link as yet.

 

So far I found


1 Yellow-shouldered amazon
2 (Mataco) three-banded armadillo
3 White-naped crane
4 West African slender-snouted crocodile
5 Atlantic bottle-nosed dolphin
6 Hairy-breasted bleeding heart dove
7 White-faced whistling duck
8 Bat-eared fox (idk which subspecies)
9 Golden-eyed tree frog
10 Yellow-headed day gecko
11 Agile/Black-handed gibbon
12
13 Goldcrest
14 I can't tell by the legs, but seeing the alphabet pattern I am confident that it is a heron
15
16 Blue-eyed black lemur
17 Yellow-backed chattering lory
18 Red-fronted Macaw
19 Yellow-throated marten (idk which subspecies)
20 Blue-spotted tree monitor
21
22 Plum-headed parrot
23 Brown eared pheasant
24 Lilac-breasted roller
25
26 Blacktip reef shark
27 Pale-throated sloth
28 Snake-necked turtle (I cannot tell which species)

These animals are listed alphabetically without their prefixes. (amazon, armadillo, crane, crocodile, ..., lemur, lory, marten, ..., shark, sloth, and turtle)

The common theme is body parts

Brown eared pheasant is the odd one out. I come up to this conclusion because the brown does not describe the ears unlike how the adjective actually refers to the body part mentioned in the name.

 

I can add that 15 is a Blue-crowned hanging parrot and that 25 appears to be a Pot-bellied seahorse.

To me 12 looks like a Maned wolf so that would be my guess at an odd one out as it doesn't follow the alphabetical pattern but may well be completely off the mark with that one.

 

12 has to an animal what has tail on the name. I would go for long-tailed goral, but that wouldn’t make sense alphabetically.

 

21 is scimitar horned oryx

so the list goes as:

1 Yellow-shouldered amazon
2 (Mataco) three-banded armadillo
3 White-naped crane
4 West African slender-snouted crocodile
5 Atlantic bottle-nosed dolphin
6 Hairy-breasted bleeding heart dove
7 White-faced whistling duck
8 Bat-eared fox (idk which subspecies)
9 Golden-eyed tree frog
10 Yellow-headed day gecko
11 Agile/Black-handed gibbon
12
13 Goldcrest
14 I can't tell by the legs, but seeing the alphabet pattern I am confident that it is a heron
15
16 Blue-eyed black lemur
17 Yellow-backed chattering lory
18 Red-fronted Macaw
19 Yellow-throated marten (idk which subspecies)
20 Blue-spotted tree monitor
21 Scimitar-horned oryx
22 Plum-headed parrot
23 Brown eared pheasant
24 Lilac-breasted roller
25
26 Blacktip reef shark
27 Pale-throated sloth
28 Snake-necked turtle (I cannot tell which species)

These animals are listed alphabetically without their prefixes. (amazon, armadillo, crane, crocodile, ..., lemur, lory, marten, ..., shark, sloth, and turtle)

 

12 is White-tailed Gnu

 

14 Yellow-crowned Night Heron?

 

OK. We have suggestions for all the creatures, mostly correct, but not quite complete. We have a correct explanation for the order, and a suggestion for the odd one out, but that can't be certain until all the species are identified. I accept that some cannot be named for certain (like 28) and there is no need to worry about subspecies.
Remember that all the names are included on Zootierliste and use your eyes

 

How about Goldcrest as the odd one out, only a single name now it is no longer called the Gold-crested Wren!

 

Do you know what 14 may be @Tetzoo Quizzer ?

 

See a couple of posts up; Yellow-crowned Night Heron, although the legs do look a little thin...

 

14 would be the odd one out, if it were a yellow-crowned night heron. But I refer the Honourable Gentleman to the answer I gave earlier.

 

I see.

I feel like calling the heron a white faced heron since that is the only heron I know that has yellow legs and also has a name that fits the pattern

 

Sounds like a good call

 

Not to me!
What do the other photos have in common?

 

They all show the body part in question. Yellow legs=/=white face. But I did try looking for yellow legs, but did not find any herons.

Then following the rule, we can deduce that the sloth is a two-toed sloth

 

Progress!

 

I thought 14 would be a thick-knee since the knees are in the focus, but thick-knee starts with a t unless we refer the bird as knees. If the bird is referred as a knee then they do fit the pattern.