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# Complete Species Archive (Page 13 of 23)

> Browse page 13 of the AnimalTracks wildlife encyclopedia. Featuring 24 bizarre species profiles with curated soundtracks.

- [Grey Heron](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/grey-heron/) (*Ardea cinerea*)
  - **Superpower**: Typically waits for prey to come within striking range, then generally swallows it whole
  - **Musical Match**: Mitski (Indie Rock & Jangle Pop)
- [Grey Parrot](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/grey-parrot/) (*Psittacus erithacus*)
  - **Superpower**: One bird, Griffin, outperformed 5-year-olds on a cup-logic test
  - **Musical Match**: Bobby McFerrin (Jazz-Funk, Soul & Lounge Fusion)
- [Grizzly Bear](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/grizzly-bear/) (*Ursus arctos horribilis*)
  - **Superpower**: Yellowstone grizzlies' claws, up to 5.9 inches long, are shaped for digging food out of the ground, and they can run 35 to 40 miles an hour.
  - **Musical Match**: Bombino (Saharan Desert Rock & Tuareg Shred)
- [Groundhog](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/groundhog/) (*Marmota monax*)
  - **Superpower**: Digs tunnel networks up to 30 feet long, with separate chambers for hibernation
  - **Musical Match**: Ennio Morricone (Desert Americana & Cinematic Rock)
- [Guinea Pig](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/guinea-pig/) (*Cavia porcellus*)
  - **Superpower**: Popcorning: playful jumps that researchers list among the signs of good welfare
  - **Musical Match**: Fleet Foxes (Pastoral Folk & Progressive Bluegrass)
- [Gulper Eel (Pelican Eel)](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/gulper-eel/) (*Eurypharynx pelecanoides*)
  - **Superpower**: A mouth that first unfolds and then inflates, and that researchers propose can expand to several times the eel's own body volume.
  - **Musical Match**: Oneohtrix Point Never (IDM & Glitch Ambient Synthesis)
- [Hamadryas Baboon](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/hamadryas-baboon/) (*Papio hamadryas*)
  - **Superpower**: A four-level society, from one-male harem units up through clans and bands to troops of several hundred that share one sleeping cliff
  - **Musical Match**: MONO (Post-Rock & Cinematic Orchestral)
- [Harbor Seal](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/harbor-seal/) (*Phoca vitulina*)
  - **Superpower**: Highly sensitive whiskers that detect the water movements a swimming fish leaves behind; blindfolded seals can use them to accurately follow a hydrodynamic trail.
  - **Musical Match**: Washed Out (Dream Pop & Shoegaze)
- [Harlequin Poison Frog](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/harlequin-poison-frog/) (*Oophaga histrionica*)
  - **Superpower**: Skin toxins collected from its prey, able to repel or even kill a small predator
  - **Musical Match**: Systema Solar (Latin Psychedelic Cumbia & Tropicalia)
- [Harpy Eagle](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/harpy-eagle/) (*Harpia harpyja*)
  - **Superpower**: Rear talons about five inches long, larger than a grizzly bear's claws, that the San Diego Zoo says can exert several hundred pounds of pressure, crushing bones and killing prey instantly.
  - **Musical Match**: Soundgarden (90s Grunge & Heavy Alt-Rock)
- [Harris's Hawk](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/harris-hawk/) (*Parabuteo unicinctus*)
  - **Superpower**: Cooperative pack-hunting tactics and the highest colour-vision resolution measured in any animal to date
  - **Musical Match**: Television (Art Punk & Experimental Post-Punk)
- [Hellbender](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/hellbender/) (*Cryptobranchus alleganiensis*)
  - **Superpower**: Cutaneous respiration through wrinkled skin folds, plus a mucus coat distasteful to potential predators
  - **Musical Match**: Clutch (Stoner Rock & Desert Groove)
- [Helmeted Guineafowl](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/helmeted-guineafowl/) (*Numida meleagris*)
  - **Superpower**: A very loud alarm call that warns other birds and surrounding fauna
  - **Musical Match**: Jessie Ware (Trip-Hop & Velvet Downtempo)
- [Hercules Beetle](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/hercules-beetle/) (*Dynastes hercules*)
  - **Superpower**: Horns that clamp a rival like pliers, then lift and slam him down, mandibles geared to move in complete synchrony, and elytra that turn from khaki-green to black once humidity rises above 80 percent.
  - **Musical Match**: Sleep (Sludge Metal & Abyssal Doom)
- [Highland Cattle](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/highland-cow/) (*Bos taurus*)
  - **Superpower**: A double coat that means the breed does not need a heavy layer of back fat for insulation.
  - **Musical Match**: Sigur Rós (Post-Rock & Cinematic Orchestral)
- [Hippopotamus](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/hippopotamus/) (*Hippopotamus amphibius*)
  - **Superpower**: A bull's canine tusks keep growing for life and can reach 50 cm, kept sharp by grinding, inside a jaw that gapes 150 degrees, more than three times a human's 45.
  - **Musical Match**: Skepta (Heavy UK Grime & Sub-Bass)
- [Hispaniolan Solenodon](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/hispaniolan-solenodon/) (*Solenodon paradoxus*)
  - **Superpower**: Likely the largest living venomous land mammal, delivering venom through a grooved second lower incisor; lab tests suggest it lowers blood pressure.
  - **Musical Match**: Wire (Art Punk & Experimental Post-Punk)
- [Hoatzin (Stinkbird)](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/hoatzin/) (*Opisthocomus hoazin*)
  - **Superpower**: A crop that digests leaves with bacteria in a process akin to a ruminant's, and chicks with wing claws that climb back to the nest if they drop into water to escape predators.
  - **Musical Match**: Talking Heads (Art Punk & Experimental Post-Punk)
- [Honey Badger](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/honey-badger/) (*Mellivora capensis*)
  - **Superpower**: Venom resistance from a muscle receptor that impedes snake toxin binding, and thick, loose skin that stops a predator getting a firm grip and lets it turn and bite
  - **Musical Match**: X-Ray Spex (Classic Punk & 70s Garage)
- [House Centipede](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/house-centipede/) (*Scutigera coleoptrata*)
  - **Superpower**: Rear legs that cross above and outside the legs in front of them, which prevents entanglement
  - **Musical Match**: Tune-Yards (Art Punk & Experimental Post-Punk)
- [House Mouse](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/house-mouse/) (*Mus musculus*)
  - **Superpower**: Males sing ultrasonic songs when they smell a female
  - **Musical Match**: Depeche Mode (Coldwave & Glacial Post-Punk)
- [House Sparrow](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/house-sparrow/) (*Passer domesticus*)
  - **Superpower**: Evolving regional differences in color and size in new lands
  - **Musical Match**: Johann Sebastian Bach (Neo-Classical & Baroque Chamber)
- [Housefly](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/housefly/) (*Musca domestica*)
  - **Superpower**: Tastes food with its feet and coats hard food in saliva and stomach fluid to break it down
  - **Musical Match**: The Breeders (90s Grunge & Heavy Alt-Rock)
- [Human Botfly](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/human-botfly/) (*Dermatobia hominis*)
  - **Superpower**: Glues its eggs to a blood-feeding carrier, usually a mosquito or a tick, which carries them to a warm-blooded host
  - **Musical Match**: Green Day (Pop-Punk & 2000s Alt-Rock)

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