--- title: "Medium Danger Animals (Page 2 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/page/2/" --- # Medium Danger Animals (Page 2 of 4) > Creatures with real weapons and little interest in using them on anything your size. **86 species in this collection.** - [Common Raccoon](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/raccoon/) (*Procyon lotor*) - **Superpower**: A cat-sized brain with near-primate neuron density, paired with forepaws that have a highly developed sense of touch - **Musical Match**: Gorillaz (Trip-Hop & Velvet Downtempo) - [Common Vampire Bat](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/vampire-bat/) (*Desmodus rotundus*) - **Superpower**: Anticoagulant saliva, infrared-sensing pits on its face, and a bounding run on land powered by its wings - **Musical Match**: Chromatics (80s Retrowave & Synthwave) - [Common Warthog](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/common-warthog/) (*Phacochoerus africanus*) - **Superpower**: Kneels on calloused, padded wrist joints to graze short grass, then backs into a borrowed aardvark burrow, tusks facing out. - **Musical Match**: Wiley (Heavy UK Grime & Sub-Bass) - [Common Wasp](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/common-wasp/) (*Vespula vulgaris*) - **Superpower**: Workers rapidly remove worker-laid eggs: 4 of 120 were left after an hour, against 106 of 120 queen eggs - **Musical Match**: Elastica (Britpop & 90s Madchester) - [Cookiecutter Shark](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/cookiecutter-shark/) (*Isistius brasiliensis*) - **Superpower**: A glowing underside that lures big animals in, then a spin that carves out a cookie-shaped plug - **Musical Match**: Dead Or Alive (80s Pop & Dance Anthem) - [Coyote](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/coyote/) (*Canis latrans*) - **Superpower**: Flexibility in food, behavior and social life: hunting alone for small prey and in groups for deer, and spreading across North and Central America as people cleared land and wiped out wolves, its bigger competitors. - **Musical Match**: Timber Timbre (Gothic Rock & Post-Punk) - [Desert Hairy Scorpion](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/desert-hairy-scorpion/) (*Hadrurus arizonensis*) - **Superpower**: Digs burrows up to 2.5 meters deep to escape desert heat, and senses vibrations in the air and the ground through its body hairs. - **Musical Match**: Truckfighters (Stoner Rock & Desert Groove) - [Donkey](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/donkey/) (*Equus asinus*) - **Superpower**: A hee-haw that can travel up to 3 km - **Musical Match**: Ennio Morricone (Desert Americana & Cinematic Rock) - [Dromedary](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/dromedary/) (*Camelus dromedarius*) - **Superpower**: Lets its body temperature swing from 34 to 41.7 degrees Celsius so it can save water by not sweating as the day heats up - **Musical Match**: Peggy Lee (Jazz-Funk, Soul & Lounge Fusion) - [Electric Catfish](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/electric-catfish/) (*Malapterurus electricus*) - **Superpower**: An electric organ around most of the body; electric catfish can discharge up to 350 volts - **Musical Match**: Gary Numan (80s Retrowave & Synthwave) - [Emperor Scorpion](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/emperor-scorpion/) (*Pandinus imperator*) - **Superpower**: Huge, powerful pincers generally used to tear prey apart instead of stinging it, plus a cuticle that fluoresces blue-green under ultraviolet light. - **Musical Match**: The Crystal Method (Big Beat & 90s Acid Techno) - [Emu](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/emu/) (*Dromaius novaehollandiae*) - **Superpower**: Fathers that sit on the nest for about 8 weeks without eating or drinking - **Musical Match**: Max Richter (Neo-Classical & Baroque Chamber) - [Eurasian Lynx](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/eurasian-lynx/) (*Lynx lynx*) - **Superpower**: Fur-padded snowshoe paws for deep snow, and a neck bite or suffocating snout grip that fells prey up to three to four times its size - **Musical Match**: Billie Eilish (2010s Pop & Electropop) - [European Badger](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/european-badger/) (*Meles meles*) - **Superpower**: Sharp claws ideal for digging setts, underground homes the badger cleans by dragging old bedding out under its chin. - **Musical Match**: The Fall (Art Punk & Experimental Post-Punk) - [European Hornet](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/european-hornet/) (*Vespa crabro*) - **Superpower**: Makes its own body heat, arriving home with a thorax averaging 30 to 40 °C - **Musical Match**: Chromatics (80s Retrowave & Synthwave) - [Fisher](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/fisher/) (*Pekania pennanti*) - **Superpower**: Its embryos pause for 10 to 11 months and a mother mates again soon after giving birth, so a female is pregnant or nursing for almost all of her adult life - **Musical Match**: Pauline Oliveros (Glacial Ambient & Drone Soundscapes) - [Flamboyant Cuttlefish](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/flamboyant-cuttlefish/) (*Metasepia pfefferi*) - **Superpower**: In captivity it often sends colors traveling across its mantle, in many kinds of situations. Other cuttlefish are generally seen doing this while hunting or showing aggression. - **Musical Match**: Pat Thomas & Kwashibu Area Band (West African Highlife & Palm-Wine Music) - [Fossa](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/fossa/) (*Cryptoprocta ferox*) - **Superpower**: A tail about half its total length that helps it balance and jump from branch to branch, plus retractable claws and flexible ankle joints that help it climb down a tree headfirst. - **Musical Match**: Squarepusher (Drum & Bass / Spatial Jungle) - [Frilled Shark](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/frilled-shark/) (*Chlamydoselachus anguineus*) - **Superpower**: Six frilly gill slits, tricuspid teeth, and a lineage estimated at 82 million years old. - **Musical Match**: Bring Me The Horizon (Modern Alt-Metal & Post-Hardcore) - [Gelada](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/gelada/) (*Theropithecus gelada*) - **Superpower**: Opposable-finger precision grazing, a lip-flip no other primate can perform, and cliff-ledge sleeping refuges - **Musical Match**: Jacob Collier (Art Pop & Baroque Pop) - [Giant River Otter](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/giant-river-otter/) (*Pteronura brasiliensis*) - **Superpower**: Jaw leverage that should favor speed over force, plus 22 distinct adult calls, including group choruses that might help mob caimans and jaguars. - **Musical Match**: Azymuth (Jazz-Funk, Soul & Lounge Fusion) - [Giant Water Bug](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/giant-water-bug/) (*Lethocerus americanus*) - **Superpower**: A young bug reduced a tadpole bigger than itself to shriveled skin in an hour - **Musical Match**: Electric Light Orchestra (70s Pop & Glam Disco) - [Giraffe](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/giraffe/) (*Giraffa camelopardalis*) - **Superpower**: Arterial blood pressure near the heart roughly double a human's, to fight gravity. A mechanical model suggests that a rise in the pressure pushing blood through the brain as the head swings back up may help stop it fainting. - **Musical Match**: Ebo Taylor (Afrobeat) - [Goblin Shark](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/goblin-shark/) (*Mitsukurina owstoni*) - **Superpower**: Catapulting slingshot feeding mechanism that launches its jaws at up to 3.1 meters per second - **Musical Match**: Lustmord (Glacial Ambient & Drone Soundscapes) - Previous Page: https://animaltracks.wiki/danger/medium/ - Next Page: https://animaltracks.wiki/danger/medium/page/3/