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# High Danger Animals (Page 1 of 2)

> Powerful animals that will defend themselves decisively. Give them distance and almost nothing happens.

**34 species in this collection.**

- [Amazonian Giant Centipede](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/giant-centipede/) (*Scolopendra gigantea*)
  - **Superpower**: Venom-bearing fangs modified from the legs on its first body segment.
  - **Musical Match**: Korn (Nu-Metal & 90s Alt-Metal)
- [American Bison](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/american-bison/) (*Bison bison*)
  - **Superpower**: A shaggy, heavily insulated head built to face straight into a blizzard and sweep snow off buried grass, backed by a 30 mph top speed.
  - **Musical Match**: Clutch (Classic Hard Rock & Southern Blues)
- [Arizona Bark Scorpion](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/arizona-bark-scorpion/) (*Centruroides sculpturatus*)
  - **Superpower**: The best climber among Arizona's scorpion species, paired with venom that drives nerve axons into prolonged and excessive firing.
  - **Musical Match**: Acid King (Stoner Rock & Desert Groove)
- [Bobbit Worm](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/bobbit-worm/) (*Eunice aphroditois*)
  - **Superpower**: An eversible pharynx tipped with sharp maxillae that thrusts out of its burrow fast enough to split a passing fish in half, with five antennae and two eyes to detect prey.
  - **Musical Match**: Deftones (Nu-Metal & 90s Alt-Metal)
- [Bornean Orangutan](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/bornean-orangutan/) (*Pongo pygmaeus*)
  - **Superpower**: Long arms that help it travel through the canopy, and hands and feet that can both grasp
  - **Musical Match**: Unknown Mortal Orchestra (Psychedelic Rock & Neo-Psych)
- [Cheetah](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/cheetah/) (*Acinonyx jubatus*)
  - **Superpower**: Accelerates 0 to 45 mph (72 km/h) in about 2.5 seconds, with a tail that acts as a rudder for quick turning
  - **Musical Match**: Rudimental (Drum & Bass / Spatial Jungle)
- [Chimpanzee](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/chimpanzee/) (*Pan troglodytes*)
  - **Superpower**: Regional tool kits (termite-fishing twigs, nut-cracking hammers, leaf sponges) that differ from community to community, plus a male dominance hierarchy whose alpha may take meat from subordinates and monopolize mating.
  - **Musical Match**: Einstürzende Neubauten (Industrial Noise & Avant-Garde Experimental)
- [Common Ostrich](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/common-ostrich/) (*Struthio camelus*)
  - **Superpower**: Sprints in short bursts of up to 43 mph (70 km/h) and holds a steady 31 mph (50 km/h), on the only two-toed feet of any bird
  - **Musical Match**: Otoboke Beaver (Hardcore Punk & Post-Hardcore)
- [Cuban Crocodile](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/cuban-crocodile/) (*Crocodylus rhombifer*)
  - **Superpower**: Leaps from the water on thrusts of its tail to grab birds and mammals off overhanging branches, and on land can break into the asymmetrical gaits that include galloping and bounding
  - **Musical Match**: The Skatalites (First Wave Ska & Caribbean Rocksteady)
- [Duck-Billed Platypus](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/platypus/) (*Ornithorhynchus anatinus*)
  - **Superpower**: Electroreceptive bill with 40,000 electroreceptors, venomous hind-leg spurs, and cyan-green UV biofluorescence
  - **Musical Match**: Pink Floyd (Psychedelic Rock & Neo-Psych)
- [Elk](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/elk/) (*Cervus canadensis*)
  - **Superpower**: A bugle made of two sound sources at once
  - **Musical Match**: Andrew Bird (Art Pop & Baroque Pop)
- [Giant Freshwater Stingray](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/giant-freshwater-stingray/) (*Urogymnus polylepis*)
  - **Superpower**: 2.2-meter disc width, a 300-kilogram record catch, and a long, barbed tail spine
  - **Musical Match**: Massive Attack (Trip-Hop & Velvet Downtempo)
- [Giant Panda](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/giant-panda/) (*Ailuropoda melanoleuca*)
  - **Superpower**: The strongest jaws of any bear, and a radial sesamoid wrist bone that works as a spare thumb for gripping bamboo.
  - **Musical Match**: Nujabes (Chillhop & Lo-Fi Beats)
- [Gray Wolf](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/gray-wolf/) (*Canis lupus*)
  - **Superpower**: A sprint of up to 38 miles per hour (61 km/h) paired with a howl that can carry up to ten miles across Arctic tundra to rally the pack.
  - **Musical Match**: Myrkur (Nordic & Steppe Folk Metal)
- [Great Hammerhead Shark](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/great-hammerhead/) (*Sphyrna mokarran*)
  - **Superpower**: Ampullae of Lorenzini, gel-filled pores under its head that sense the electrical signals of prey, even prey buried in sand.
  - **Musical Match**: Bicep (Future Garage & Deep Electronica)
- [Great Horned Owl](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/great-horned-owl/) (*Bubo virginianus*)
  - **Superpower**: Talons that take a force of 13 kg to open, strong enough to sever the spinal column of prey larger than itself.
  - **Musical Match**: Julee Cruise (Dream Pop & Shoegaze)
- [Great Torpedo Ray](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/torpedo-ray/) (*Tetronarce nobiliana*)
  - **Superpower**: Twin kidney-shaped electric organs that fire 170 to 220 volts, enough to stun or kill a fish and, from a large adult, to disable a person.
  - **Musical Match**: The Prodigy (Big Beat & 90s Acid Techno)
- [Green Anaconda](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/green-anaconda/) (*Eunectes murinus*)
  - **Superpower**: A stretchy, ligament-hinged jaw that swallows prey whole; death comes from suffocating coils, or just as often, from drowning near water.
  - **Musical Match**: Sepultura (Thrash Metal & Speed Metal)
- [Green Moray Eel](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/green-moray-eel/) (*Gymnothorax funebris*)
  - **Superpower**: A yellow mucus coat that protects it from parasites and bacteria, and a sense of smell it relies on to find prey at night
  - **Musical Match**: Ty Segall (Heavy Psych & Garage Rock)
- [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)
- [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)
- [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)
- [Mandrill](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/mandrill/) (*Mandrillus sphinx*)
  - **Superpower**: Skin colored blue by light-scattering collagen and red by blood, both most saturated in the top-ranked males.
  - **Musical Match**: David Bowie (70s Pop & Glam Disco)
- [Moose](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/moose/) (*Alces alces*)
  - **Superpower**: Legs that can sometimes move through deep snow more easily than a wolf's, plus a top speed of up to 35 mph.
  - **Musical Match**: Kyuss (Stoner Rock & Desert Groove)

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