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# Least Concern Animals (Page 1 of 12)

> Widespread and stable, for now. Being common is not the same as being safe, and several of these were assessed decades ago.

**266 species in this collection.**

- [Aardvark](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/aardvark/) (*Orycteropus afer*)
  - **Superpower**: Spade-like claws that dig with great speed and force
  - **Musical Match**: Mike Oldfield (Psychedelic Rock & Neo-Psych)
- [Adélie Penguin](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/adelie-penguin/) (*Pygoscelis adeliae*)
  - **Superpower**: Steers by the sun across featureless ice, and some can dive to depths of up to 175 meters.
  - **Musical Match**: The Hives (Classic Punk & 70s Garage)
- [African Crested Porcupine](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/crested-porcupine/) (*Hystrix cristata*)
  - **Superpower**: Reverse charge that stabs an attacker with its thicker, shorter quills, backed by a rattling tail and raised quills that can make it look two to three times bigger
  - **Musical Match**: Nova Twins (Modern Metalcore & Electronic Post-Hardcore)
- [African Lungfish](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/african-lungfish/) (*Protopterus annectens*)
  - **Superpower**: Obligate air breathing through two lungs, and over a year inside a cocoon of dried slime
  - **Musical Match**: Elder (Heavy Psych & Desert Rock)
- [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)
- [Alpine Chamois](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/alpine-chamois/) (*Rupicapra rupicapra*)
  - **Superpower**: Hooves that are excellent for gripping slippery rock, and a habit of fleeing to the hardest places to reach, often with huge leaps.
  - **Musical Match**: Shantel (Balkan Brass & Romani Folk Riot)
- [Alpine Marmot](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/alpine-marmot/) (*Marmota marmota*)
  - **Superpower**: Hibernation bouts that start with a 95% cut in metabolic rate, and a small intestine that grows 259% in mass between spring emergence and July
  - **Musical Match**: Fanfare Ciocărlia (Balkan Brass & Romani Folk Riot)
- [American Alligator](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/american-alligator/) (*Alligator mississippiensis*)
  - **Superpower**: Jaws strong enough to crack a turtle shell
  - **Musical Match**: Black Pistol Fire (Garage Blues & Swamp Rock)
- [American Black Bear](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/american-black-bear/) (*Ursus americanus*)
  - **Superpower**: A sense of smell about seven times stronger than a bloodhound's
  - **Musical Match**: William Basinski (Glacial Ambient & Drone Soundscapes)
- [American Crow](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/american-crow/) (*Corvus brachyrhynchos*)
  - **Superpower**: Learns a threatening face and passes the lesson on to other crows
  - **Musical Match**: Bikini Kill (90s Riot Grrrl & Grunge)
- [American Lobster](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/american-lobster/) (*Homarus americanus*)
  - **Superpower**: Two different claws, a crusher for pulverizing shells and a ripper for tearing soft flesh.
  - **Musical Match**: AC/DC (Classic Hard Rock & Southern Blues)
- [American Mink](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/american-mink/) (*Neogale vison*)
  - **Superpower**: Swims up to 30 meters underwater while hunting, with partially webbed toes and a waterproof coat
  - **Musical Match**: Sade (Jazz-Funk, Soul & Lounge Fusion)
- [American Pika](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/american-pika/) (*Ochotona princeps*)
  - **Superpower**: Stacks a winter hay pile in summer instead of hibernating
  - **Musical Match**: Tune-Yards (Art Punk & Experimental Post-Punk)
- [American Robin](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/american-robin/) (*Turdus migratorius*)
  - **Superpower**: A song that often starts just before first light
  - **Musical Match**: The Beatles (Psychedelic Rock & Neo-Psych)
- [Andean Cock-of-the-Rock](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/andean-cock-of-the-rock/) (*Rupicola peruvianus*)
  - **Superpower**: A crest that hides the male's bill, synchronized courtship displays at a lek, and seed dispersal
  - **Musical Match**: Los Mirlos (Andean Folk, Charango & Amazonian Chicha)
- [Antarctic Krill](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/antarctic-krill/) (*Euphausia superba*)
  - **Superpower**: An estimated 400 million tonnes in the Southern Ocean, photophores on muscular stalks that aim their light away from incoming light, and the ability to shrink, burning its own body protein as fuel, when food is scarce in winter.
  - **Musical Match**: Tycho (Glacial Ambient & Drone Soundscapes)
- [Arctic Fox](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/arctic-fox/) (*Vulpes lagopus*)
  - **Superpower**: Feet held just above the point where living tissue freezes, and a body that needs no extra energy to stay warm even at -40°C.
  - **Musical Match**: Ásgeir (Glacial Ambient & Drone Soundscapes)
- [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)
- [Atlantic Bluefin Tuna](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/atlantic-bluefin-tuna/) (*Thunnus thynnus*)
  - **Superpower**: Keeps a warm body, dives past 1,000 meters and can cross the Atlantic in under 60 days
  - **Musical Match**: Stereolab (Krautrock & Electronic Pioneers)
- [Atlantic Flying Fish](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/atlantic-flying-fish/) (*Cheilopogon melanurus*)
  - **Superpower**: Swims at up to about 30 km/h, glides for approximately 30 seconds, and can relaunch tail first into another glide
  - **Musical Match**: Dua Lipa (2020s Pop & Modern Alt)
- [Atlantic Hagfish](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/atlantic-hagfish/) (*Myxine glutinosa*)
  - **Superpower**: Defensive slime that unravels into gill-clogging protein thread in a fraction of a second
  - **Musical Match**: Einstürzende Neubauten (Industrial Noise & Avant-Garde Experimental)
- [Atlantic Mudskipper](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/atlantic-mudskipper/) (*Periophthalmus barbarus*)
  - **Superpower**: Blinks on land, in about 560 ms, about the length of a human blink
  - **Musical Match**: Katrina & The Waves (80s Pop & Dance Anthem)
- [Australasian Ghost Shark](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/australasian-ghost-shark/) (*Harriotta avia*)
  - **Superpower**: Cartilaginous electro-receptive rostrum and massive mineralized tooth plates
  - **Musical Match**: Bohren & der Club of Gore (Glacial Ambient & Drone Soundscapes)
- [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)

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