--- title: "Medium Danger Animals (Page 3 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/3/" --- # Medium Danger Animals (Page 3 of 4) > Creatures with real weapons and little interest in using them on anything your size. **86 species in this collection.** - [Golden Eagle](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/golden-eagle/) (*Aquila chrysaetos*) - **Superpower**: A dive of up to 120 mph (193 km/h) and a hunting style that often has one eagle drive prey toward its waiting partner. - **Musical Match**: Boards of Canada (IDM & Glitch Ambient Synthesis) - [Golden Jackal](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/golden-jackal/) (*Canis aureus*) - **Superpower**: A fast geographic expansion across Europe over the last century, in at least two waves - **Musical Match**: Simon & Garfunkel (Pastoral Folk & Progressive Bluegrass) - [Goliath Birdeater](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/goliath-birdeater/) (*Theraphosa blondi*) - **Superpower**: An 11-inch leg span and stinging hairs it can release to irritate predators - **Musical Match**: A Tribe Called Quest (90s East Coast Hip-Hop & Boom Bap) - [Great Barracuda](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/great-barracuda/) (*Sphyraena barracuda*) - **Superpower**: A scissor-like bite that cuts prey in two - **Musical Match**: Melt-Banana (Mathcore & Chaotic Noise) - [Greenland Shark](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/greenland-shark/) (*Somniosus microcephalus*) - **Superpower**: It grows less than a centimeter a year, females aren't sexually mature until at least 156 years old, give or take 22, and its lifespan runs to at least 272 years, the longest of any known vertebrate. - **Musical Match**: Kali Malone (Glacial Ambient & Drone Soundscapes) - [Highland Cattle](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/highland-cow/) (*Bos taurus*) - **Superpower**: A double coat that means the breed does not need a heavy layer of back fat for insulation. - **Musical Match**: Sigur Rós (Post-Rock & Cinematic Orchestral) - [House Mouse](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/house-mouse/) (*Mus musculus*) - **Superpower**: Males sing ultrasonic songs when they smell a female - **Musical Match**: Depeche Mode (Coldwave & Glacial Post-Punk) - [Human Botfly](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/human-botfly/) (*Dermatobia hominis*) - **Superpower**: Glues its eggs to a blood-feeding carrier, usually a mosquito or a tick, which carries them to a warm-blooded host - **Musical Match**: Green Day (Pop-Punk & 2000s Alt-Rock) - [Humpback Whale](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/humpback-whale/) (*Megaptera novaeangliae*) - **Superpower**: Five main feeding moves, including a "ring of foam" that surrounds prey before the whale dives under it and surfaces in the center, mouth open. - **Musical Match**: Explosions in the Sky (Post-Rock & Cinematic Orchestral) - [Iberian Lynx](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/iberian-lynx/) (*Lynx pardinus*) - **Superpower**: A single kill bite that punctures the back of the prey's neck and severs the spinal cord, on a diet that is 80 to 100 percent European rabbit - **Musical Match**: Photek (Drum & Bass / Precision Jungle) - [Japanese Giant Salamander](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/japanese-giant-salamander/) (*Andrias japonicus*) - **Superpower**: Breathes mainly through its wrinkled skin, and has sensory bumps around its head that work like a fish's lateral line. - **Musical Match**: Geinoh Yamashirogumi (Glacial Ambient & Drone Soundscapes) - [Japanese Macaque](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/japanese-macaque/) (*Macaca fuscata*) - **Superpower**: Holds its body temperature steady in the cold with no rise in metabolic rate, apparently thanks largely to thick fur, plus hot-spring soaking that may help it keep warm. - **Musical Match**: Slowdive (Dream Pop & Shoegaze) - [Lion's Mane Jellyfish](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/lions-mane-jellyfish/) (*Cyanea capillata*) - **Superpower**: Tentacles speculated to trail up to 36.6 meters (120 feet); many authorities rank it the longest of all jellyfish. - **Musical Match**: Tim Hecker (Glacial Ambient & Drone Soundscapes) - [Mute Swan](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/mute-swan/) (*Cygnus olor*) - **Superpower**: Raises its wings and twirls in a busking display, part of both rival standoffs and the mating ritual - **Musical Match**: Miki Matsubara (Japanese City Pop & Shibuya-kei) - [North American Beaver](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/north-american-beaver/) (*Castor canadensis*) - **Superpower**: Self-sharpening, iron-strengthened incisors that keep growing throughout its life and can cut through a finger-thick sapling in one bite. - **Musical Match**: Béla Fleck (Pastoral Folk & Progressive Bluegrass) - [Ocelot](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/ocelot/) (*Leopardus pardalis*) - **Superpower**: Eyes with a layer that reflects light, so an ocelot can walk around at night as easily as a person walks around by day. - **Musical Match**: Chicha Libre (Latin Psychedelic Cumbia & Flamenco) - [Peacock Mantis Shrimp](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/mantis-shrimp/) (*Odontodactylus scyllarus*) - **Superpower**: A club strike that hits twice, and eyes that rotate to read polarized light - **Musical Match**: Goran Bregović (Balkan Brass & Romani Folk Riot) - [Peregrine Falcon](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/peregrine-falcon/) (*Falco peregrinus*) - **Superpower**: A stoop dive topping 320 km/h (200 mph), steered by the same proportional-navigation math used in guided missiles - **Musical Match**: Antonio Vivaldi (Neo-Classical & Baroque Chamber) - [Plains Zebra](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/plains-zebra/) (*Equus quagga*) - **Superpower**: Stripes that a 2014 study linked to biting flies, in a pattern unique enough to work as an ID card for every zebra in the herd. - **Musical Match**: Black Coffee (Afrobeats & Modern Amapiano) - [Pygmy Hippopotamus](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/pygmy-hippo/) (*Choeropsis liberiensis*) - **Superpower**: A glossy "blood sweat" from glands in its skin that protects its thin, sensitive skin from the sun, with more of it seen during hard exertion. - **Musical Match**: Salif Keita (African Rumba & Mande Pop) - [Red Imported Fire Ant](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/red-imported-fire-ant/) (*Solenopsis invicta*) - **Superpower**: Links bodies with its nestmates to form a waterproof raft - **Musical Match**: LCD Soundsystem (Dance-Punk & Electroclash) - [Red Kangaroo](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/red-kangaroo/) (*Osphranter rufus*) - **Superpower**: Powerful hind legs and a balancing tail carry it at up to 64 km/h, and its energy use stays nearly the same as it hops faster on level ground. - **Musical Match**: AC/DC (Classic Hard Rock & Southern Blues) - [Red Lionfish](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/red-lionfish/) (*Pterois volitans*) - **Superpower**: The persistent-predation strategy: it chased a faster fish at about half its speed and caught it in 61% of lab trials. - **Musical Match**: Electrelane (Art Punk & Experimental Post-Punk) - [Red-Bellied Piranha](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/red-bellied-piranha/) (*Pygocentrus nattereri*) - **Superpower**: Triangular, razor-sharp interlocking teeth that bite down with great force and shearing ability - **Musical Match**: Battles (Math Rock & Instrumental Virtuoso) - Previous Page: https://animaltracks.wiki/danger/medium/page/2/ - Next Page: https://animaltracks.wiki/danger/medium/page/4/