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# Complete Species Archive (Page 9 of 23)

> Browse page 9 of the AnimalTracks wildlife encyclopedia. Featuring 24 bizarre species profiles with curated soundtracks.

- [Emerald Cockroach Wasp](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/emerald-cockroach-wasp/) (*Ampulex compressa*)
  - **Superpower**: A sting aimed at the cockroach's brain that switches off its urge to walk
  - **Musical Match**: Static-X (Industrial Metal & Cyber-Thrash)
- [Emperor Dragonfly](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/emperor-dragonfly/) (*Anax imperator*)
  - **Superpower**: A larva with a labial mask, a hooked mouthpart that shoots out at prey
  - **Musical Match**: Venetian Snares (Breakcore & Chaotic Drill)
- [Emperor Penguin](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/emperor-penguin/) (*Aptenodytes forsteri*)
  - **Superpower**: Dives deeper than 500 meters and longer than 23 minutes, with hemoglobin that grips oxygen unusually tightly.
  - **Musical Match**: Ólafur Arnalds (Neo-Classical & Baroque Chamber)
- [Emperor Scorpion](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/emperor-scorpion/) (*Pandinus imperator*)
  - **Superpower**: Huge, powerful pincers generally used to tear prey apart instead of stinging it, plus a cuticle that fluoresces blue-green under ultraviolet light.
  - **Musical Match**: The Crystal Method (Big Beat & 90s Acid Techno)
- [Emu](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/emu/) (*Dromaius novaehollandiae*)
  - **Superpower**: Fathers that sit on the nest for about 8 weeks without eating or drinking
  - **Musical Match**: Max Richter (Neo-Classical & Baroque Chamber)
- [Etruscan Shrew](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/etruscan-shrew/) (*Suncus etruscus*)
  - **Superpower**: A heart that has beaten up to 1,511 times a minute, the highest rate reported for a warm-blooded animal
  - **Musical Match**: Nia Archives (Drum & Bass / Spatial Jungle)
- [Eurasian Beaver](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/eurasian-beaver/) (*Castor fiber*)
  - **Superpower**: Hard orange-enameled incisors, valved ears and nostrils that close underwater, and dams that flood former uplands and draw in new birds, fish, and amphibians.
  - **Musical Match**: Stereolab (Art Punk & Experimental Post-Punk)
- [Eurasian Lynx](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/eurasian-lynx/) (*Lynx lynx*)
  - **Superpower**: Fur-padded snowshoe paws for deep snow, and a neck bite or suffocating snout grip that fells prey up to three to four times its size
  - **Musical Match**: Billie Eilish (2010s Pop & Electropop)
- [Eurasian Otter](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/eurasian-otter/) (*Lutra lutra*)
  - **Superpower**: Vibrissae, whiskers above its lips, that detect changes in the water current and track the movements of fish and other prey underwater.
  - **Musical Match**: Fairport Convention (Pastoral Folk & Progressive Bluegrass)
- [European Badger](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/european-badger/) (*Meles meles*)
  - **Superpower**: Sharp claws ideal for digging setts, underground homes the badger cleans by dragging old bedding out under its chin.
  - **Musical Match**: The Fall (Art Punk & Experimental Post-Punk)
- [European Crane Fly](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/european-crane-fly/) (*Tipula paludosa*)
  - **Superpower**: Leatherjacket grubs with tough skin that come up to feed on damp, warm nights
  - **Musical Match**: Lana Del Rey (2010s Pop & Electropop)
- [European Eel](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/european-eel/) (*Anguilla anguilla*)
  - **Superpower**: Swims 5,000 to 10,000 km across the Atlantic to spawn
  - **Musical Match**: Kali Malone (Glacial Ambient & Drone Soundscapes)
- [European Hare](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/european-hare/) (*Lepus europaeus*)
  - **Superpower**: Leverets are born furred and well developed, then spread over a moderately wide area to avoid predation on the whole litter
  - **Musical Match**: Kate Bush (Art Pop & Baroque Pop)
- [European Harvestman](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/european-harvestman/) (*Phalangium opilio*)
  - **Superpower**: In a lab colony, a female lays a typical clutch of about 250 eggs roughly every three days
  - **Musical Match**: American Football (Math Rock & Midwest Emo)
- [European Hedgehog](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/european-hedgehog/) (*Erinaceus europaeus*)
  - **Superpower**: A sheet of muscle across the back, the panniculus carnosus, contracts to curl the body into a ball while the muscles linked to each spine contract too, leaving every spine standing on end.
  - **Musical Match**: Tiny Moving Parts (Math Rock & Midwest Emo)
- [European Herring Gull](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/european-herring-gull/) (*Larus argentatus*)
  - **Superpower**: Paddles its feet on the ground to flush worms to the surface
  - **Musical Match**: Eurythmics (80s Pop & Dance Anthem)
- [European Hornet](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/european-hornet/) (*Vespa crabro*)
  - **Superpower**: Makes its own body heat, arriving home with a thorax averaging 30 to 40 °C
  - **Musical Match**: Chromatics (80s Retrowave & Synthwave)
- [European Mantis](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/european-mantis/) (*Mantis religiosa*)
  - **Superpower**: A single ear on its underside, tuned to ultrasound
  - **Musical Match**: Ryoji Ikeda (IDM & Glitch Ambient Synthesis)
- [European Medicinal Leech](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/european-medicinal-leech/) (*Hirudo medicinalis*)
  - **Superpower**: Anticoagulant saliva, and one blood meal that can last it 12 to 18 months
  - **Musical Match**: Lindsey Stirling (2010s Pop & Electropop)
- [European Mole](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/european-mole/) (*Talpa europaea*)
  - **Superpower**: Digs tunnel networks that can run hundreds of metres, with five-clawed front feet turned outward
  - **Musical Match**: BIG|BRAVE (Sludge Metal & Heavy Drone)
- [European Polecat](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/european-polecat/) (*Mustela putorius*)
  - **Superpower**: A key-lock jaw hinge whose grip is tenacious enough that it can be lifted and suspended by whatever it holds in its teeth, backed by a strong-smelling secretion from its anal glands when threatened.
  - **Musical Match**: Green Day (Pop-Punk & 2000s Alt-Rock)
- [European Robin](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/european-robin/) (*Erithacus rubecula*)
  - **Superpower**: A light-sensitive retinal protein called cryptochrome 4 that may let the robin sense Earth's magnetic field through quantum chemistry, a mechanism researchers are still working to confirm.
  - **Musical Match**: Vashti Bunyan (Pastoral Folk & Progressive Bluegrass)
- [European Starling](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/european-starling/) (*Sturnus vulgaris*)
  - **Superpower**: A voicebox with two independent sound sources, which in males handle mostly low notes on the left and higher ones on the right, plus six distinct flock escape patterns under falcon attack
  - **Musical Match**: NewJeans (Hyperpop & Kawaii Future Bass)
- [European Storm Petrel](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/european-storm-petrel/) (*Hydrobates pelagicus*)
  - **Superpower**: Runs on stomach oil while incubating (if that oil supplies all its energy, it accounts for 76% of the weight lost each day on the nest), and its chicks can apparently recognize their own body odor
  - **Musical Match**: Tokio Hotel (2000s Pop-Rock & Emo)

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