--- title: "Deadly Danger Animals (Page 1 of 3) | AnimalTracks.wiki" description: "Species with venom, bite force, or hunting ability sufficient to kill a person. Most want nothing to do with us, which is the only reason the numbers stay low." image: "https://animaltracks.wiki/icon-512.png" canonical: "https://animaltracks.wiki/danger/deadly/" --- # Deadly Danger Animals (Page 1 of 3) > Species with venom, bite force, or hunting ability sufficient to kill a person. Most want nothing to do with us, which is the only reason the numbers stay low. **64 species in this collection.** - [African Buffalo](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/african-buffalo/) (*Syncerus caffer*) - **Superpower**: Bulls that have been recorded fending off more than one lion - **Musical Match**: Kimbra (2010s Pop & Electropop) - [African Bush Elephant](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/african-elephant/) (*Loxodonta africana*) - **Superpower**: A boneless trunk built from around 150,000 muscle fascicles, and rumbles that travel through the ground as well as the air. - **Musical Match**: Hildur Guðnadóttir (Post-Rock & Cinematic Orchestral) - [African Crested Porcupine](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/crested-porcupine/) (*Hystrix cristata*) - **Superpower**: Reverse charge that stabs an attacker with its thicker, shorter quills, backed by a rattling tail and raised quills that can make it look two to three times bigger - **Musical Match**: Nova Twins (Modern Metalcore & Electronic Post-Hardcore) - [African Lion](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/african-lion/) (*Panthera leo*) - **Superpower**: Deep-throated 114-decibel square vocal cords that project territorial warning roars across three miles of open savanna. - **Musical Match**: Florence + The Machine (Art Pop & Baroque Pop) - [American Alligator](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/american-alligator/) (*Alligator mississippiensis*) - **Superpower**: Jaws strong enough to crack a turtle shell - **Musical Match**: Black Pistol Fire (Garage Blues & Swamp Rock) - [American Black Bear](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/american-black-bear/) (*Ursus americanus*) - **Superpower**: A sense of smell about seven times stronger than a bloodhound's - **Musical Match**: William Basinski (Glacial Ambient & Drone Soundscapes) - [American Crocodile](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/american-crocodile/) (*Crocodylus acutus*) - **Superpower**: Tolerates salt water - **Musical Match**: Madonna (80s Pop & Dance Anthem) - [Amur Leopard](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/amur-leopard/) (*Panthera pardus orientalis*) - **Superpower**: Thick fur that grows up to 7.5 centimeters long in winter, and a leap of 20 feet across or 10 feet high. - **Musical Match**: Harakiri for the Sky (Blackgaze & Atmospheric Post-Metal) - [Asian Elephant](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/asian-elephant/) (*Elephas maximus*) - **Superpower**: A trunk with about 150,000 muscle units and tendons - **Musical Match**: Peter Frampton (Classic Hard Rock & Southern Blues) - [Asian Giant Hornet](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/asian-giant-hornet/) (*Vespa mandarinia*) - **Superpower**: Raiding parties that can kill 5,000 to 25,000 honeybees in a few hours - **Musical Match**: The Crazy World of Arthur Brown (Psychedelic Rock & Neo-Psych) - [Asian Tiger Mosquito](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/asian-tiger-mosquito/) (*Aedes albopictus*) - **Superpower**: Drought-resistant eggs that, in European populations, pause through winter and survived a -10 °C cold spell - **Musical Match**: Laurie Spiegel (Krautrock & Electronic Pioneers) - [Bengal Tiger](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/bengal-tiger/) (*Panthera tigris tigris*) - **Superpower**: A single bound can cover up to 10 meters, and flat, square vocal folds push its roar to 114 decibels. - **Musical Match**: Nia Archives (Drum & Bass / Spatial Jungle) - [Black Caiman](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/black-caiman/) (*Melanosuchus niger*) - **Superpower**: A bite measured at up to 4,310 newtons in three tested adults, from the reptile group with the highest bite forces known. - **Musical Match**: Neurosis (Sludge Metal & Abyssal Doom) - [Black Mamba](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/black-mamba/) (*Dendroaspis polylepis*) - **Superpower**: Venom that attacks the nervous system two ways at once, dendrotoxins that jam nerve potassium channels plus neurotoxins that block nerve-muscle signals, backed by speeds of up to 20 km/h (12.5 mph). - **Musical Match**: Burna Boy (Afrobeats & Modern Amapiano) - [Black Rhinoceros](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/black-rhino/) (*Diceros bicornis*) - **Superpower**: A hooked, prehensile upper lip that grabs plants and guides them into its mouth. - **Musical Match**: Bolt Thrower (Brutal Death Metal & Heavy Groove) - [Blue-Ringed Octopus](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/blue-ringed-octopus/) (*Hapalochlaena lunulata*) - **Superpower**: Symbiotic Tetrodotoxin Neurotoxin & Optical Iridophore Ring Strobing - **Musical Match**: Ladytron (Dance-Punk & Electroclash) - [Box Jellyfish](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/box-jellyfish/) (*Chironex fleckeri*) - **Superpower**: 24 eyes and no brain to run them, plus pore-forming venom that drives potassium out of human blood cells within 5 minutes - **Musical Match**: Crystal Castles (Darkwave & Ethereal Witch House) - [Brazilian Wandering Spider](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/brazilian-wandering-spider/) (*Phoneutria nigriventer*) - **Superpower**: Venom peptides that jam voltage-gated sodium and calcium channels and the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor - **Musical Match**: Jorge Ben Jor (Classic Funk, Soul & Disco) - [Brazilian Yellow Scorpion](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/brazilian-yellow-scorpion/) (*Tityus serrulatus*) - **Superpower**: Parthenogenesis: adult scorpions are usually female, and unfertilized eggs develop straight into daughters, and a female breeds with no male present. - **Musical Match**: CSS (Dance-Punk & Electroclash) - [Bull Shark](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/bull-shark/) (*Carcharhinus leucas*) - **Superpower**: Blood chemistry that shifts with the water: bull sharks caught in freshwater carried about half the blood urea of those caught at sea. - **Musical Match**: IDLES (Hardcore Punk & Post-Hardcore) - [Burmese Python](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/burmese-python/) (*Python bivittatus*) - **Superpower**: Jaws that stretch to swallow prey several times as wide as its head - **Musical Match**: Ellie Goulding (2010s Pop & Electropop) - [Common European Adder](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/common-european-adder/) (*Vipera berus*) - **Superpower**: Hinged fangs that fold against the roof of the mouth and inject venom - **Musical Match**: Gotan Project (Trip-Hop & Velvet Downtempo) - [Cottonmouth](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/cottonmouth/) (*Agkistrodon piscivorus*) - **Superpower**: A heat-sensing pit on each side of the face and a wide-open white mouth shown to predators - **Musical Match**: KC & The Sunshine Band (Classic Funk, Soul & Disco) - [Deathstalker Scorpion](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/deathstalker-scorpion/) (*Leiurus quinquestriatus*) - **Superpower**: A venom peptide, chlorotoxin, that binds brain tumor cells and, built into the dye tozuleristide, made gliomas glow in a trial published in 2019 - **Musical Match**: Gesaffelstein (French Dark Electro & EBM) - Previous Page: None - Next Page: https://animaltracks.wiki/danger/deadly/page/2/