--- title: "Endangered Animals (Page 1 of 2) | AnimalTracks.wiki" description: "Species facing a very high risk of extinction, usually through habitat loss, hunting, or a collapsing food supply." image: "https://animaltracks.wiki/icon-512.png" canonical: "https://animaltracks.wiki/status/endangered/" --- # Endangered Animals (Page 1 of 2) > Species facing a very high risk of extinction, usually through habitat loss, hunting, or a collapsing food supply. **42 species in this collection.** - [African Bush Elephant](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/african-elephant/) (*Loxodonta africana*) - **Superpower**: A boneless trunk built from around 150,000 muscle fascicles, and rumbles that travel through the ground as well as the air. - **Musical Match**: Hildur Guðnadóttir (Post-Rock & Cinematic Orchestral) - [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 Snapping Turtle](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/alligator-snapping-turtle/) (*Macrochelys temminckii*) - **Superpower**: Vermiform lingual lure ambush and bone-crushing beak leverage - **Musical Match**: Corrosion Of Conformity (Swamp Metal & Southern Heavy Rock) - [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) - [Asian Elephant](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/asian-elephant/) (*Elephas maximus*) - **Superpower**: A trunk with about 150,000 muscle units and tendons - **Musical Match**: Peter Frampton (Classic Hard Rock & Southern Blues) - [Australian Lungfish](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/australian-lungfish/) (*Neoceratodus forsteri*) - **Superpower**: A single lung for breathing air when streams turn stagnant, and a genome known to be the largest of any animal - **Musical Match**: Brian Eno (Glacial Ambient & Drone Soundscapes) - [Aye-Aye](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/aye-aye/) (*Daubentonia madagascariensis*) - **Superpower**: Tap foraging: it taps wood rapidly with its middle finger, listens for the echo of an insect tunnel, then hooks the larva out with that slender, flexible finger. - **Musical Match**: Gogol Bordello (Gypsy Punk & Dark Cabaret) - [Basking Shark](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/basking-shark/) (*Cetorhinus maximus*) - **Superpower**: Enormous Filter-Feeding Mouth & Up to 2,000 Tons of Water an Hour - **Musical Match**: Steel Pulse (Roots Reggae & Heavy Dub) - [Bengal Tiger](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/bengal-tiger/) (*Panthera tigris tigris*) - **Superpower**: A single bound can cover up to 10 meters, and flat, square vocal folds push its roar to 114 decibels. - **Musical Match**: Nia Archives (Drum & Bass / Spatial Jungle) - [Blue Whale](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/blue-whale/) (*Balaenoptera musculus*) - **Superpower**: Calls measured off Antarctica averaging 189 decibels at 25 to 29 Hz, thought to carry up to 1,000 miles in the right ocean conditions - **Musical Match**: Sunn O))) (Sludge Metal & Heavy Drone) - [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) - [Chimpanzee](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/chimpanzee/) (*Pan troglodytes*) - **Superpower**: Regional tool kits (termite-fishing twigs, nut-cracking hammers, leaf sponges) that differ from community to community, plus a male dominance hierarchy whose alpha may take meat from subordinates and monopolize mating. - **Musical Match**: Einstürzende Neubauten (Industrial Noise & Avant-Garde Experimental) - [Dhole](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/dhole/) (*Cuon alpinus*) - **Superpower**: Hunting as a pack, it can catch prey over 10 times its own body weight - **Musical Match**: Holly Herndon (Art Pop & Baroque Pop) - [Geoffroy's Spider Monkey](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/geoffroys-spider-monkey/) (*Ateles geoffroyi*) - **Superpower**: A tail that can pick things up and hold the monkey's weight - **Musical Match**: Tame Impala (Psychedelic Rock & Neo-Psych) - [Giant Freshwater Stingray](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/giant-freshwater-stingray/) (*Urogymnus polylepis*) - **Superpower**: 2.2-meter disc width, a 300-kilogram record catch, and a long, barbed tail spine - **Musical Match**: Massive Attack (Trip-Hop & Velvet Downtempo) - [Giant Ground Pangolin](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/giant-ground-pangolin/) (*Smutsia gigantea*) - **Superpower**: A sticky tongue up to 70 centimeters long for trapping ants and termites, and a scaly body it rolls into a ball that's next to impossible to uncurl. - **Musical Match**: Tinariwen (Saharan Desert Rock & Tuareg Shred) - [Giant Oceanic Manta Ray](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/giant-manta-ray/) (*Mobula birostris*) - **Superpower**: Two cephalic lobes help channel water into its mouth, making manta rays the only vertebrates with three paired appendages. - **Musical Match**: Stephan Bodzin (Melodic House & Techno) - [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) - [Golden Hamster](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/golden-hamster/) (*Mesocricetus auratus*) - **Superpower**: A 16-day pregnancy, the shortest among eutherian (placental) mammals - **Musical Match**: DragonForce (Thrash Metal & Speed Metal) - [Golden Poison Frog](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/golden-poison-frog/) (*Phyllobates terribilis*) - **Superpower**: Secretes batrachotoxin and is the most toxic of all frog species; the poison of a single frog could kill up to ten people. - **Musical Match**: Infected Mushroom (Psy-Trance) - [Golden Snub-Nosed Monkey](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/golden-snub-nosed-monkey/) (*Rhinopithecus roxellana*) - **Superpower**: Narrows the blood vessels in its skin to cut heat loss, then lives off stored fat, losing 14 percent of its body mass over the winter. - **Musical Match**: Midori Takada (Neo-Classical & Baroque Chamber) - [Goliath Frog](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/goliath-frog/) (*Conraua goliath*) - **Superpower**: Males build rock and gravel nests and wrestle rivals - **Musical Match**: Earthless (Heavy Psych & Desert Rock) - [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) - [Kea (Alpine Parrot)](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/kea/) (*Nestor notabilis*) - **Superpower**: Uses relative quantities to predict odds, as human infants and chimpanzees do, plus a love of tinkering that often turns on taps and has been known to wreck car wipers. - **Musical Match**: Dropkick Murphys (Celtic Punk & Folk Riot) - Previous Page: None - Next Page: https://animaltracks.wiki/status/endangered/page/2/ Conservation categories are from the [IUCN Red List of Threatened Species](https://www.iucnredlist.org/). 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