--- title: "Deadly Danger Animals (Page 2 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/page/2/" --- # Deadly Danger Animals (Page 2 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.** - [Deer Tick](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/deer-tick/) (*Ixodes scapularis*) - **Superpower**: Ambushes a passing host, then feeds for days while its new, flexible outer shell helps it swell - **Musical Match**: Warpaint (Dream Pop & Shoegaze) - [Dingo](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/dingo/) (*Canis familiaris*) - **Superpower**: Rarely barks. It howls to call its pack together or warn off intruders, and marks the edges of its territory with scent: rubbing, urinating and defecating on objects. - **Musical Match**: The Chats (Aussie Garage Punk & Pub Rock) - [Domestic Dog](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/domestic-dog/) (*Canis lupus familiaris*) - **Superpower**: Hundreds of millions of scent-sensing cells, and nostrils that each draw a separate air sample, which may help locate where a smell comes from - **Musical Match**: Jimmy Eat World (Pop-Punk & 2000s Alt-Rock) - [Eastern Brown Snake](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/eastern-brown-snake/) (*Pseudonaja textilis*) - **Superpower**: A ready-made clotting engine, pseutarin C, preassembled in the venom gland - **Musical Match**: Ramones (Classic Punk & 70s Garage) - [Gaboon Viper](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/gaboon-viper/) (*Bitis gabonica*) - **Superpower**: Fangs up to 5 cm long, the longest of any venomous snake - **Musical Match**: Explosions in the Sky (Post-Rock & Cinematic Orchestral) - [Gaur](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/gaur/) (*Bos gaurus*) - **Superpower**: Herds that, one warden wrote, stand and fight a tiger rather than run - **Musical Match**: Anna Meredith (Post-Rock & Cinematic Orchestral) - [Geography Cone Snail](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/geography-cone-snail/) (*Conus geographus*) - **Superpower**: Venom insulin that appears to be part of the "nirvana cabal," a toxin mix released into the water to disorient schools of small fish, which the snail then engulfs and harpoons with a hollow radular tooth. - **Musical Match**: Carpenter Brut (French Dark Electro & EBM) - [Giant Anteater](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/giant-anteater/) (*Myrmecophaga tridactyla*) - **Superpower**: A 2-foot tongue that flicks in and out up to 150 times per minute - **Musical Match**: Minor Threat (Hardcore Punk & Post-Hardcore) - [Golden Poison Frog](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/golden-poison-frog/) (*Phyllobates terribilis*) - **Superpower**: Secretes batrachotoxin and is the most toxic of all frog species; the poison of a single frog could kill up to ten people. - **Musical Match**: Infected Mushroom (Psy-Trance) - [Great White Shark](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/great-white-shark/) (*Carcharodon carcharias*) - **Superpower**: Ampullae of Lorenzini that detect electrical signals as faint as 0.005 microvolts, paired with regional endothermy that keeps key parts of its body warmer than the surrounding ocean. - **Musical Match**: Arch Enemy (Thrash Metal & Speed Metal) - [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) - [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) - [Inland Taipan](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/inland-taipan/) (*Oxyuranus microlepidotus*) - **Superpower**: Paradoxin, a presynaptic neurotoxin that stops nerve endings releasing the signal that makes muscles contract. The whole venom is rated the most toxic of any snake's in LD50 tests on mice. - **Musical Match**: Spiritbox (Modern Metalcore & Djent) - [Irukandji Jellyfish](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/irukandji-jellyfish/) (*Carukia barnesi*) - **Superpower**: Twitches its tentacles like fishing lures to draw in larval fish - **Musical Match**: Jon Hopkins (IDM & Glitch Ambient Synthesis) - [Jaguar](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/jaguar/) (*Panthera onca*) - **Superpower**: A skull-piercing bite that kills instantly, from jaws that get through thick reptile skin and turtle shells. - **Musical Match**: Bad Bunny (Latin Trap & Heavy 808s) - [King Cobra](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/king-cobra/) (*Ophiophagus hannah*) - **Superpower**: Can deliver more than a gram of neurotoxic venom, measured dry, in a single bite. - **Musical Match**: A Tribe Called Quest (90s East Coast Hip-Hop & Boom Bap) - [Kodiak Bear](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/kodiak-bear/) (*Ursus arctos middendorffi*) - **Superpower**: Loses 20 to 40% of its body mass during hibernation, without eating, drinking, urinating or defecating in the den. - **Musical Match**: Melvins (Sludge Metal & Abyssal Doom) - [Komodo Dragon](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/komodo-dragon/) (*Varanus komodoensis*) - **Superpower**: Iron-reinforced serrated cutting teeth, venomous shock-inducing glands, and chainmail osteoderm armor - **Musical Match**: Metallica (Thrash Metal & Speed Metal) - [Leopard](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/leopard/) (*Panthera pardus*) - **Superpower**: Carries a fresh kill up to 15 m (50 ft) up a tree, even one heavier than itself, to keep it from lions and hyenas. - **Musical Match**: Mogwai (Cinematic Post-Rock & Ambient Crescendo) - [Leopard Seal](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/leopard-seal/) (*Hydrurga leptonyx*) - **Superpower**: Lobodont teeth that filter krill, and incisors that grip a penguin by the skin - **Musical Match**: Fear Factory (Industrial Metal & Cyber Thrash) - [Nile Crocodile](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/nile-crocodile/) (*Crocodylus niloticus*) - **Superpower**: Launches its body out of the water to grab prey - **Musical Match**: Mala (Heavy UK Grime & Sub-Bass) - [Orca (Killer Whale)](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/orca/) (*Orcinus orca*) - **Superpower**: Sophisticated matrilineal acoustic dialects and cooperative wave-washing attacks. - **Musical Match**: Rage Against the Machine (Nu-Metal & 90s Alt-Metal) - [Polar Bear](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/polar-bear/) (*Ursus maritimus*) - **Superpower**: Jet-black skin under hollow, clear guard hairs, with up to 10 centimeters (4 inches) of fat beneath it. - **Musical Match**: Chelsea Wolfe (Blackgaze & Atmospheric Post-Metal) - [Portuguese Man o' War](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/portuguese-man-o-war/) (*Physalia physalis*) - **Superpower**: A colony of clones working together as one, with four specialized parts for floating, capturing prey, feeding, and reproduction. - **Musical Match**: SALEM (Darkwave & Ethereal Witch House) - Previous Page: https://animaltracks.wiki/danger/deadly/ - Next Page: https://animaltracks.wiki/danger/deadly/page/3/