--- title: "Medium Danger Animals (Page 1 of 4) | AnimalTracks.wiki" description: "Creatures with real weapons and little interest in using them on anything your size." image: "https://animaltracks.wiki/icon-512.png" canonical: "https://animaltracks.wiki/danger/medium/" --- # Medium Danger Animals (Page 1 of 4) > Creatures with real weapons and little interest in using them on anything your size. **86 species in this collection.** - [African Wild Dog (Painted Dog)](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/african-wild-dog/) (*Lycaon pictus*) - **Superpower**: Long-distance stamina hunting: chasing prey at up to 30 mph for as long as three and a half miles until it tires and slows down. - **Musical Match**: Pendulum (Drum & Bass / Spatial Jungle) - [Alligator Gar](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/alligator-gar/) (*Atractosteus spatula*) - **Superpower**: Interlocking ganoid scale armor with a hard outer layer over a tough bony base, two rows of fang-like teeth in the upper jaw, and a vascularized swim bladder that can work as a lung - **Musical Match**: Creedence Clearwater Revival (Classic Hard Rock & Southern Blues) - [Antarctic Fur Seal](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/antarctic-fur-seal/) (*Arctocephalus gazella*) - **Superpower**: Insulating coat containing over 300,000 hairs per square inch that traps an impermeable layer of air against the skin in freezing water. - **Musical Match**: The Stooges (Classic Punk & 70s Garage) - [Army Ant](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/army-ant/) (*Eciton burchellii*) - **Superpower**: Builds its nest out of the bodies of its own workers - **Musical Match**: MONO (Post-Rock & Cinematic Orchestral) - [Asian Water Monitor](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/asian-water-monitor/) (*Varanus salvator*) - **Superpower**: Follows scent trails and can smell a rotten carcass from up to 100 m away - **Musical Match**: NEU! (Krautrock & Electronic Pioneers) - [Assassin Bug](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/assassin-bug/) (*Acanthaspis petax*) - **Superpower**: Wears a mask of ant carcasses that seems to fool sharp-eyed jumping spiders, and belongs to a family whose venom can paralyze and liquefy - **Musical Match**: Skream (Heavy UK Grime & Sub-Bass) - [Bald Eagle](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/bald-eagle/) (*Haliaeetus leucocephalus*) - **Superpower**: A talon grip ten times as strong as an average human's, with spiny toe scales and rough foot pads that help it hold slippery fish. - **Musical Match**: Tom Petty (Classic Hard Rock & Southern Blues) - [Bare-Nosed Wombat](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/bare-nosed-wombat/) (*Vombatus ursinus*) - **Superpower**: A rump of very tough, thick skin that shields it from teeth and claws, and back legs strong enough to crush an attacker against the burrow roof. - **Musical Match**: Silverchair (90s Grunge & Heavy Alt-Rock) - [Binturong](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/binturong/) (*Arctictis binturong*) - **Superpower**: Urine containing 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline, the compound likely responsible for its popcorn smell, plus a prehensile tail that works as a fifth limb. - **Musical Match**: Kupla (Chillhop & Lo-Fi Beats) - [Blue Wildebeest](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/blue-wildebeest/) (*Connochaetes taurinus*) - **Superpower**: Forelimb muscle that works at 62.6% efficiency, against 41.8% in a cow's - **Musical Match**: Caterina Barbieri (IDM & Glitch Ambient Synthesis) - [Boa Constrictor](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/boa-constrictor/) (*Boa constrictor*) - **Superpower**: Squeezes just enough to stop the prey's heart pumping blood - **Musical Match**: Earth (Sludge Metal & Abyssal Doom) - [Bobcat](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/bobcat/) (*Lynx rufus*) - **Superpower**: Steps its back feet into its front-foot prints to cut the noise of its stalk - **Musical Match**: Julianna Barwick (Glacial Ambient & Drone Soundscapes) - [Bombardier Beetle](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/bombardier-beetle/) (*Brachinus crepitans*) - **Superpower**: Explosive Chemical Spray Up To 100°C, Fired in Rapid Pulses - **Musical Match**: Fugazi (Hardcore Punk & Post-Hardcore) - [Bonobo](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/bonobo/) (*Pan paniscus*) - **Superpower**: Largely peaceful: a 2011 paper found no confirmed record of infanticide among bonobos, and a 2014 study of four bonobo communities over five decades logged one suspected killing. - **Musical Match**: The Books (Organic Downtempo & Micro-Sampling) - [Bottlenose Dolphin](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/bottlenose-dolphin/) (*Tursiops truncatus*) - **Superpower**: A signature whistle other dolphins can recognize even with its voice features removed, plus echolocation focused through a fatty lens for sound to find prey and read the seafloor. - **Musical Match**: Spice Girls (90s Pop & Eurodance) - [California Sea Lion](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/california-sea-lion/) (*Zalophus californianus*) - **Superpower**: One sea lion learned to bob its head in time with a rhythm, even complex music - **Musical Match**: Earth, Wind & Fire (Classic Funk, Soul & Disco) - [Candiru](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/candiru/) (*Vandellia cirrhosa*) - **Superpower**: Gill-cover spines that hold it on while its host's blood pressure fills its mouth - **Musical Match**: Boards of Canada (IDM & Glitch Ambient Synthesis) - [Cane Toad](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/cane-toad/) (*Rhinella marina*) - **Superpower**: Large parotoid glands on the shoulders secrete toxins when the toad is under threat, which may cause profuse salivation, twitching, vomiting, shallow breathing and collapse of the hind limbs in predators, and even death in some of them, including dogs. - **Musical Match**: Midnight Oil (Aussie Garage Punk & Pub Rock) - [Caracal](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/caracal/) (*Caracal caracal*) - **Superpower**: Vertical Leaps Up to 10 Feet to Snatch Birds Out of the Air - **Musical Match**: Pendulum (Drum & Bass / Spatial Jungle) - [Clouded Leopard](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/clouded-leopard/) (*Neofelis nebulosa*) - **Superpower**: Rotating ankles let it climb down a tree headfirst and hang from its back feet - **Musical Match**: The Beatles (Psychedelic Rock & Neo-Psych) - [Clydesdale Horse](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/clydesdale-horse/) (*Equus caballus*) - **Superpower**: An immensely strong, barrel-chested body, bred for hauling and farm work - **Musical Match**: Electric Wizard (Sludge Metal & Abyssal Doom) - [Cockatiel](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/cockatiel/) (*Nymphicus hollandicus*) - **Superpower**: Sings along with a human melody, nearly perfectly in unison - **Musical Match**: Peter Bjorn and John (Indie Rock & Jangle Pop) - [Coconut Crab](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/coconut-crab/) (*Birgus latro*) - **Superpower**: An estimated 3,300-newton claw pinch for a 4-kilogram crab, calculated from measurements on wild animals, enough to beat the bite force of most living land predators, alligators excepted. - **Musical Match**: Fela Kuti (Afrobeat) - [Collared Peccary](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/collared-peccary/) (*Dicotyles tajacu*) - **Superpower**: Self-sharpening canine teeth that clack in warning, and a scent gland above the tail that marks territory - **Musical Match**: Meredith Monk (Neo-Classical & Baroque Chamber) - Previous Page: None - Next Page: https://animaltracks.wiki/danger/medium/page/2/