--- title: "Low Danger Animals (Page 1 of 15) | AnimalTracks.wiki" description: "The overwhelming majority of life on Earth. Harmless to humans, and frequently far more interesting for it." image: "https://animaltracks.wiki/icon-512.png" canonical: "https://animaltracks.wiki/danger/low/" --- # Low Danger Animals (Page 1 of 15) > The overwhelming majority of life on Earth. Harmless to humans, and frequently far more interesting for it. **352 species in this collection.** - [Aardvark](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/aardvark/) (*Orycteropus afer*) - **Superpower**: Spade-like claws that dig with great speed and force - **Musical Match**: Mike Oldfield (Psychedelic Rock & Neo-Psych) - [Adélie Penguin](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/adelie-penguin/) (*Pygoscelis adeliae*) - **Superpower**: Steers by the sun across featureless ice, and some can dive to depths of up to 175 meters. - **Musical Match**: The Hives (Classic Punk & 70s Garage) - [African Lungfish](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/african-lungfish/) (*Protopterus annectens*) - **Superpower**: Obligate air breathing through two lungs, and over a year inside a cocoon of dried slime - **Musical Match**: Elder (Heavy Psych & Desert Rock) - [Alpaca](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/alpaca/) (*Vicugna pacos*) - **Superpower**: Antibodies with no light chain, whose heat-stable variable regions scientists use in diagnostics, bio-imaging, and treatments. - **Musical Match**: Kings of Convenience (Pastoral Folk & Progressive Bluegrass) - [Alpine Chamois](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/alpine-chamois/) (*Rupicapra rupicapra*) - **Superpower**: Hooves that are excellent for gripping slippery rock, and a habit of fleeing to the hardest places to reach, often with huge leaps. - **Musical Match**: Shantel (Balkan Brass & Romani Folk Riot) - [Alpine Marmot](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/alpine-marmot/) (*Marmota marmota*) - **Superpower**: Hibernation bouts that start with a 95% cut in metabolic rate, and a small intestine that grows 259% in mass between spring emergence and July - **Musical Match**: Fanfare Ciocărlia (Balkan Brass & Romani Folk Riot) - [American Cockroach](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/american-cockroach/) (*Periplaneta americana*) - **Superpower**: Switches from six-legged to four-legged and two-legged running at up to 50 body lengths per second - **Musical Match**: Hella (Math Rock & Instrumental Virtuoso) - [American Crow](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/american-crow/) (*Corvus brachyrhynchos*) - **Superpower**: Learns a threatening face and passes the lesson on to other crows - **Musical Match**: Bikini Kill (90s Riot Grrrl & Grunge) - [American Lobster](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/american-lobster/) (*Homarus americanus*) - **Superpower**: Two different claws, a crusher for pulverizing shells and a ripper for tearing soft flesh. - **Musical Match**: AC/DC (Classic Hard Rock & Southern Blues) - [American Mink](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/american-mink/) (*Neogale vison*) - **Superpower**: Swims up to 30 meters underwater while hunting, with partially webbed toes and a waterproof coat - **Musical Match**: Sade (Jazz-Funk, Soul & Lounge Fusion) - [American Paddlefish](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/american-paddlefish/) (*Polyodon spathula*) - **Superpower**: Paddle and head covered in ampullary organs: 50,000 to 70,000 electroreceptors per adult, the largest number of any living vertebrate species - **Musical Match**: Blackberry Smoke (Delta Blues & Swamp Rock) - [American Pika](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/american-pika/) (*Ochotona princeps*) - **Superpower**: Stacks a winter hay pile in summer instead of hibernating - **Musical Match**: Tune-Yards (Art Punk & Experimental Post-Punk) - [American Robin](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/american-robin/) (*Turdus migratorius*) - **Superpower**: A song that often starts just before first light - **Musical Match**: The Beatles (Psychedelic Rock & Neo-Psych) - [Andean Cock-of-the-Rock](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/andean-cock-of-the-rock/) (*Rupicola peruvianus*) - **Superpower**: A crest that hides the male's bill, synchronized courtship displays at a lek, and seed dispersal - **Musical Match**: Los Mirlos (Andean Folk, Charango & Amazonian Chicha) - [Andean Condor](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/andean-condor/) (*Vultur gryphus*) - **Superpower**: Flapped for only 1% of flight time in a tracking study - **Musical Match**: Stars of the Lid (Glacial Ambient & Drone Soundscapes) - [Antarctic Icefish](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/antarctic-icefish/) (*Champsocephalus gunnari*) - **Superpower**: Belongs to the only vertebrate family that lacks working hemoglobin genes and working red blood cells: its blood carries oxygen dissolved in the plasma instead. - **Musical Match**: Biosphere (Glacial Ambient & Drone Soundscapes) - [Antarctic Krill](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/antarctic-krill/) (*Euphausia superba*) - **Superpower**: An estimated 400 million tonnes in the Southern Ocean, photophores on muscular stalks that aim their light away from incoming light, and the ability to shrink, burning its own body protein as fuel, when food is scarce in winter. - **Musical Match**: Tycho (Glacial Ambient & Drone Soundscapes) - [Antlion](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/antlion/) (*Myrmeleon formicarius*) - **Superpower**: Its larva throws sand out of its pit with a backward jerk of the head - **Musical Match**: Russian Circles (Sludge Metal & Abyssal Doom) - [Arapaima](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/arapaima/) (*Arapaima gigas*) - **Superpower**: A lung-like swim bladder for breathing air, scale armor that resists piranhas, and a bony or toothed tongue - **Musical Match**: Mastodon (Sludge Metal & Abyssal Doom) - [Arctic Fox](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/arctic-fox/) (*Vulpes lagopus*) - **Superpower**: Feet held just above the point where living tissue freezes, and a body that needs no extra energy to stay warm even at -40°C. - **Musical Match**: Ásgeir (Glacial Ambient & Drone Soundscapes) - [Armadillo Girdled Lizard](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/armadillo-girdled-lizard/) (*Ouroborus cataphractus*) - **Superpower**: Ouroboros Armored Ball & Communal Crevices - **Musical Match**: Queens of the Stone Age (Stoner Rock & Desert Groove) - [Asian Weaver Ant](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/asian-weaver-ant/) (*Oecophylla smaragdina*) - **Superpower**: Pulling teams in which each ant's average force nearly doubles as the team grows, while other workers glue the leaves with silk squeezed from their own larvae. - **Musical Match**: Chon (Math Rock & Instrumental Virtuoso) - [Atlantic Blue Crab](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/atlantic-blue-crab/) (*Callinectes sapidus*) - **Superpower**: Rear legs shaped like paddles, built for swimming - **Musical Match**: Wolf Alice (90s Grunge & Heavy Alt-Rock) - [Atlantic Bluefin Tuna](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/atlantic-bluefin-tuna/) (*Thunnus thynnus*) - **Superpower**: Keeps a warm body, dives past 1,000 meters and can cross the Atlantic in under 60 days - **Musical Match**: Stereolab (Krautrock & Electronic Pioneers) - Previous Page: None - Next Page: https://animaltracks.wiki/danger/low/page/2/