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# Extreme Danger Animals

> Animals that cause serious harm without necessarily being lethal. Broken bones, deep wounds, and venom that ruins a week.

**9 species in this collection.**

- [Alligator Snapping Turtle](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/alligator-snapping-turtle/) (*Macrochelys temminckii*)
  - **Superpower**: Vermiform lingual lure ambush and bone-crushing beak leverage
  - **Musical Match**: Corrosion Of Conformity (Swamp Metal & Southern Heavy Rock)
- [Blue Sea Dragon](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/blue-sea-dragon/) (*Glaucus atlanticus*)
  - **Superpower**: Kleptocnidae: steals a Portuguese man o' war's stinging cells and stores them in its own cerata.
  - **Musical Match**: Saint Pepsi (Classic Funk, Soul & Disco)
- [Boomslang](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/boomslang/) (*Dispholidus typus*)
  - **Superpower**: A metalloproteinase-loaded hemotoxin that triggers uncontrolled clotting until the blood's clotting factors run out, paired with huge round-pupil eyes and a 180-degree gape that drives its rear fangs home.
  - **Musical Match**: Hugh Masekela (African Rumba & Mande Pop)
- [Brown Recluse](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/brown-recluse/) (*Loxosceles reclusa*)
  - **Superpower**: Venom that can kill the tissue around its bite
  - **Musical Match**: The Cure (Gothic Rock & Post-Punk)
- [Bullet Ant](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/bullet-ant/) (*Paraponera clavata*)
  - **Superpower**: Poneratoxin venom that in cockroaches keeps nerve cells firing past the point where they should stop, and a sting rated level four, the top of the Schmidt Sting Pain Index.
  - **Musical Match**: Converge (Mathcore & Chaotic Noise)
- [Cougar](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/cougar/) (*Puma concolor*)
  - **Superpower**: 40-foot horizontal spring leaps and soft tracks that barely mark the ground
  - **Musical Match**: Arctic Monkeys (Indie Rock & Desert Sleaze)
- [Gila Monster](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/gila-monster/) (*Heloderma suspectum*)
  - **Superpower**: Beaded osteoderm armor and venom containing exendin-4, the peptide behind the diabetes drug exenatide (Byetta)
  - **Musical Match**: All Them Witches (Stoner Rock & Desert Groove)
- [Saltwater Crocodile](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/saltwater-crocodile/) (*Crocodylus porosus*)
  - **Superpower**: A bite that hit 3,689 pounds in one individual, the highest measured in any animal, and dermal pressure receptors that detect the ripples prey leave on the water's surface.
  - **Musical Match**: Jinjer (Modern Metalcore & Djent)
- [Sunda Slow Loris](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/sunda-slow-loris/) (*Nycticebus coucang*)
  - **Superpower**: Brachial gland chemical weaponization and specialized toothcomb venom delivery
  - **Musical Match**: Sneaker Pimps (Trip-Hop & Eerie Downtempo)