--- title: "Low Danger Animals (Page 8 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/page/8/" --- # Low Danger Animals (Page 8 of 15) > The overwhelming majority of life on Earth. Harmless to humans, and frequently far more interesting for it. **352 species in this collection.** - [Greater Flamingo](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/greater-flamingo/) (*Phoenicopterus roseus*) - **Superpower**: A filter-feeding bill that works with the head upside down, in water with a pH of up to 11 - **Musical Match**: Timecop1983 (80s Retrowave & Synthwave) - [Greater Jerboa](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/greater-jerboa/) (*Jaculus orientalis*) - **Superpower**: Bipedal leaping on hind legs about four times the length of its forelimbs; leaps have been measured at up to 3 meters long - **Musical Match**: The Interrupters (Ska-Punk & 2-Tone) - [Greater Roadrunner](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/greater-roadrunner/) (*Geococcyx californianus*) - **Superpower**: Runs at up to 20 mph, smashes prey against rocks, and saves energy by basking black skin on its back in the sun. - **Musical Match**: Cassyette (Alt-Metal & Nu-Rock) - [Green Drake Mayfly](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/green-drake-mayfly/) (*Ephemera danica*) - **Superpower**: Detects water by the horizontal polarization of the light it reflects - **Musical Match**: Sigur Rós (Post-Rock & Cinematic Orchestral) - [Green Humphead Parrotfish](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/green-humphead-parrotfish/) (*Bolbometopon muricatum*) - **Superpower**: Males headbutt rivals with loud, jarring impacts - **Musical Match**: Royal Blood (Heavy Psych & Garage Rock) - [Green Iguana](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/green-iguana/) (*Iguana iguana*) - **Superpower**: Sheds its tail to escape and dives from overhanging branches into water - **Musical Match**: The Police (80s Pop & Dance Anthem) - [Green Sea Turtle](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/green-sea-turtle/) (*Chelonia mydas*) - **Superpower**: Navigates with a map that is at least partly based on Earth's magnetic field - **Musical Match**: Harmonia (Krautrock & Electronic Pioneers) - [Grey Heron](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/grey-heron/) (*Ardea cinerea*) - **Superpower**: Typically waits for prey to come within striking range, then generally swallows it whole - **Musical Match**: Mitski (Indie Rock & Jangle Pop) - [Grey Parrot](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/grey-parrot/) (*Psittacus erithacus*) - **Superpower**: One bird, Griffin, outperformed 5-year-olds on a cup-logic test - **Musical Match**: Bobby McFerrin (Jazz-Funk, Soul & Lounge Fusion) - [Groundhog](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/groundhog/) (*Marmota monax*) - **Superpower**: Digs tunnel networks up to 30 feet long, with separate chambers for hibernation - **Musical Match**: Ennio Morricone (Desert Americana & Cinematic Rock) - [Guinea Pig](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/guinea-pig/) (*Cavia porcellus*) - **Superpower**: Popcorning: playful jumps that researchers list among the signs of good welfare - **Musical Match**: Fleet Foxes (Pastoral Folk & Progressive Bluegrass) - [Gulper Eel (Pelican Eel)](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/gulper-eel/) (*Eurypharynx pelecanoides*) - **Superpower**: A mouth that first unfolds and then inflates, and that researchers propose can expand to several times the eel's own body volume. - **Musical Match**: Oneohtrix Point Never (IDM & Glitch Ambient Synthesis) - [Harbor Seal](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/harbor-seal/) (*Phoca vitulina*) - **Superpower**: Highly sensitive whiskers that detect the water movements a swimming fish leaves behind; blindfolded seals can use them to accurately follow a hydrodynamic trail. - **Musical Match**: Washed Out (Dream Pop & Shoegaze) - [Harpy Eagle](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/harpy-eagle/) (*Harpia harpyja*) - **Superpower**: Rear talons about five inches long, larger than a grizzly bear's claws, that the San Diego Zoo says can exert several hundred pounds of pressure, crushing bones and killing prey instantly. - **Musical Match**: Soundgarden (90s Grunge & Heavy Alt-Rock) - [Harris's Hawk](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/harris-hawk/) (*Parabuteo unicinctus*) - **Superpower**: Cooperative pack-hunting tactics and the highest colour-vision resolution measured in any animal to date - **Musical Match**: Television (Art Punk & Experimental Post-Punk) - [Hellbender](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/hellbender/) (*Cryptobranchus alleganiensis*) - **Superpower**: Cutaneous respiration through wrinkled skin folds, plus a mucus coat distasteful to potential predators - **Musical Match**: Clutch (Stoner Rock & Desert Groove) - [Helmeted Guineafowl](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/helmeted-guineafowl/) (*Numida meleagris*) - **Superpower**: A very loud alarm call that warns other birds and surrounding fauna - **Musical Match**: Jessie Ware (Trip-Hop & Velvet Downtempo) - [Hercules Beetle](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/hercules-beetle/) (*Dynastes hercules*) - **Superpower**: Horns that clamp a rival like pliers, then lift and slam him down, mandibles geared to move in complete synchrony, and elytra that turn from khaki-green to black once humidity rises above 80 percent. - **Musical Match**: Sleep (Sludge Metal & Abyssal Doom) - [Hispaniolan Solenodon](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/hispaniolan-solenodon/) (*Solenodon paradoxus*) - **Superpower**: Likely the largest living venomous land mammal, delivering venom through a grooved second lower incisor; lab tests suggest it lowers blood pressure. - **Musical Match**: Wire (Art Punk & Experimental Post-Punk) - [Hoatzin (Stinkbird)](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/hoatzin/) (*Opisthocomus hoazin*) - **Superpower**: A crop that digests leaves with bacteria in a process akin to a ruminant's, and chicks with wing claws that climb back to the nest if they drop into water to escape predators. - **Musical Match**: Talking Heads (Art Punk & Experimental Post-Punk) - [House Centipede](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/house-centipede/) (*Scutigera coleoptrata*) - **Superpower**: Rear legs that cross above and outside the legs in front of them, which prevents entanglement - **Musical Match**: Tune-Yards (Art Punk & Experimental Post-Punk) - [House Sparrow](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/house-sparrow/) (*Passer domesticus*) - **Superpower**: Evolving regional differences in color and size in new lands - **Musical Match**: Johann Sebastian Bach (Neo-Classical & Baroque Chamber) - [Housefly](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/housefly/) (*Musca domestica*) - **Superpower**: Tastes food with its feet and coats hard food in saliva and stomach fluid to break it down - **Musical Match**: The Breeders (90s Grunge & Heavy Alt-Rock) - [Hummingbird Hawk-Moth](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/hummingbird-hawk-moth/) (*Macroglossum stellatarum*) - **Superpower**: Hovers in front of flowers, and the sensors in its antennae help it control rapid turns - **Musical Match**: Covet (Math Rock & Instrumental Virtuoso) - Previous Page: https://animaltracks.wiki/danger/low/page/7/ - Next Page: https://animaltracks.wiki/danger/low/page/9/