--- title: "Endangered Animals (Page 2 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/page/2/" --- # Endangered Animals (Page 2 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.** - [Komodo Dragon](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/komodo-dragon/) (*Varanus komodoensis*) - **Superpower**: Iron-reinforced serrated cutting teeth, venomous shock-inducing glands, and chainmail osteoderm armor - **Musical Match**: Metallica (Thrash Metal & Speed Metal) - [Lar Gibbon](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/lar-gibbon/) (*Hylobates lar*) - **Superpower**: Mated pairs sing duets that carry up to a kilometre - **Musical Match**: Max Richter (Neo-Classical & Baroque Chamber) - [Long-Tailed Chinchilla](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/long-tailed-chinchilla/) (*Chinchilla lanigera*) - **Superpower**: Fur with up to 60 hairs growing from one follicle - **Musical Match**: Lush (Dream Pop & Shoegaze) - [Malayan Tapir](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/malayan-tapir/) (*Tapirus indicus*) - **Superpower**: A prehensile snout, formed from the nose and upper lip, that plucks leaves from branches and places them in its mouth. - **Musical Match**: Buddy Holly (50s Rock & Roll & Rockabilly) - [Mountain Gorilla](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/mountain-gorilla/) (*Gorilla beringei beringei*) - **Superpower**: A chest-beat drumroll that can be heard more than a kilometer away, pitched lower the bigger the male beating it. - **Musical Match**: The Chemical Brothers (Big Beat & 90s Acid Techno) - [Okapi](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/okapi/) (*Okapia johnstoni*) - **Superpower**: A prehensile tongue long enough to reach its own eyes and ears, plus a scent gland on each foot that leaves sticky, tar-like marks on its territory - **Musical Match**: Papa Wemba (African Rumba & Mande Pop) - [Proboscis Monkey](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/proboscis-monkey/) (*Nasalis larvatus*) - **Superpower**: An oversized nose that amplifies a male's calls, making them louder than a female's and useful for warning the group of danger. - **Musical Match**: Les Baxter (Jazz-Funk, Soul & Lounge Fusion) - [Przewalski's Horse](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/przewalskis-horse/) (*Equus ferus przewalskii*) - **Superpower**: Breeds with domestic horses and gets fertile young, despite 66 chromosomes against their 64. - **Musical Match**: Caroline Shaw (Neo-Classical & Baroque Chamber) - [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 Panda](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/red-panda/) (*Ailurus fulgens*) - **Superpower**: A false thumb: an enlarged wrist bone (the radial sesamoid) it uses to grasp bamboo. - **Musical Match**: Snail's House (Hyperpop & Kawaii Future Bass) - [Ring-Tailed Lemur](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/ring-tailed-lemur/) (*Lemur catta*) - **Superpower**: Scent warfare: males mix wrist (antebrachial) and chest (brachial) gland secretions, then anoint their tails for stink fights against rivals. - **Musical Match**: Yeah Yeah Yeahs (Dance-Punk & Electroclash) - [Scaly-foot Snail](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/scaly-foot-snail/) (*Chrysomallon squamiferum*) - **Superpower**: Foot scales and shell often mineralised with iron sulfide, and a heart that's about 4% of its body volume - **Musical Match**: Godflesh (Industrial Rock & Cyberpunk) - [Sea Otter](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/sea-otter/) (*Enhydra lutris*) - **Superpower**: Up to a million hairs per square inch, the densest fur of any mammal, plus a skin pocket that carries a rock for cracking shells. - **Musical Match**: Khruangbin (Classic Funk, Soul & Disco) - [Secretarybird](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/secretarybird/) (*Sagittarius serpentarius*) - **Superpower**: Stomping kicks: one captive male's peak force averaged five times his body weight, his foot on the snake for about 15 milliseconds a strike. - **Musical Match**: Rodrigo y Gabriela (Latin Psychedelic Cumbia & Flamenco) - [Shortfin Mako Shark](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/shortfin-mako-shark/) (*Isurus oxyrinchus*) - **Superpower**: Bursts up to 70 km/h and keeps swimming muscles warmer than the surrounding sea - **Musical Match**: Charli xcx (2020s Pop & Modern Alt) - [Sunda Slow Loris](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/sunda-slow-loris/) (*Nycticebus coucang*) - **Superpower**: Brachial gland chemical weaponization and specialized toothcomb venom delivery - **Musical Match**: Sneaker Pimps (Trip-Hop & Eerie Downtempo) - [Tasmanian Devil](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/tasmanian-devil/) (*Sarcophilus harrisii*) - **Superpower**: Pound for pound, no living mammal predator in a 2005 study had a higher estimated bite force than the Tasmanian devil. - **Musical Match**: Amyl and the Sniffers (Aussie Garage Punk & Pub Rock) - [Whale Shark](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/whale-shark/) (*Rhincodon typus*) - **Superpower**: Dermal denticles that armor its eyeballs, and 20 filter pads that strain more than 600,000 liters of seawater an hour in a 6-meter shark, by one estimate. - **Musical Match**: Beach House (Dream Pop & Shoegaze) - Previous Page: https://animaltracks.wiki/status/endangered/ - Next Page: None Conservation categories are from the [IUCN Red List of Threatened Species](https://www.iucnredlist.org/). 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