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# Least Concern Animals (Page 11 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.**

- [Superb Lyrebird](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/superb-lyrebird/) (*Menura novaehollandiae*)
  - **Superpower**: A song built roughly 80% from mimicry, including an acoustic illusion of a mixed-species alarm flock convincing enough that real birds treat it as genuine.
  - **Musical Match**: Aphex Twin (IDM & Glitch Ambient Synthesis)
- [Surinam Toad](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/surinam-toad/) (*Pipa pipa*)
  - **Superpower**: Subcutaneous honeycomb egg incubation and whole-trunk suction feeding
  - **Musical Match**: Autechre (IDM & Glitch Ambient Synthesis)
- [Tawny Owl](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/tawny-owl/) (*Strix aluco*)
  - **Superpower**: Asymmetrical ear openings that let it locate a sound from the tiny difference in when it reaches each ear.
  - **Musical Match**: Portishead (Trip-Hop & Velvet Downtempo)
- [Texas Horned Lizard](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/texas-horned-lizard/) (*Phrynosoma cornutum*)
  - **Superpower**: Blood-squirting eye defense and skin channels that steer water toward its snout
  - **Musical Match**: Calexico (Desert Americana & Cinematic Rock)
- [Thorny Devil](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/thorny-devil/) (*Moloch horridus*)
  - **Superpower**: Grooves between its scales collect water and carry it by capillary action, even against gravity, to the corners of its mouth.
  - **Musical Match**: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard (Psychedelic Rock & Neo-Psych)
- [Three-Toed Sloth](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/three-toed-sloth/) (*Bradypus tridactylus*)
  - **Superpower**: A metabolism slower than other mammals its size, and fur algae that can tint it green for canopy camouflage
  - **Musical Match**: Brian Eno (Glacial Ambient & Drone Soundscapes)
- [Timber Rattlesnake](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/timber-rattlesnake/) (*Crotalus horridus*)
  - **Superpower**: Heat-sensing pits between nostril and eye that detect very slight changes in temperature
  - **Musical Match**: Buena Vista Social Club (Cuban Son & Trova)
- [Toco Toucan](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/toco-toucan/) (*Ramphastos toco*)
  - **Superpower**: A bill laced with blood vessels that works as a heat radiator, carrying away an average of 60 percent of the bird's non-evaporative heat loss above 28°C.
  - **Musical Match**: Sérgio Mendes (Brazilian Bossa Nova & Tropicalia Samba)
- [Tuatara](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/tuatara/) (*Sphenodon punctatus*)
  - **Superpower**: A light-sensitive third eye with a retina and lens, and the lowest optimal body temperature of any reptile, 16 to 21 degrees Celsius.
  - **Musical Match**: God Is An Astronaut (Post-Rock & Cinematic Space)
- [Tufted Capuchin](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/tufted-capuchin/) (*Sapajus apella*)
  - **Superpower**: Opens otherwise inaccessible fruit by smashing it on tree surfaces or using baton-like pieces of branch
  - **Musical Match**: Led Zeppelin (Classic Hard Rock & Southern Blues)
- [Turkey Vulture](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/turkey-vulture/) (*Cathartes aura*)
  - **Superpower**: Finds carrion by smell, even beneath forest canopy
  - **Musical Match**: Modest Mouse (Indie Rock & Jangle Pop)
- [Veiled Chameleon](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/veiled-chameleon/) (*Chamaeleo calyptratus*)
  - **Superpower**: An elastic tongue that can accelerate at more than 50 times the pull of gravity and reach full length in under 30 milliseconds.
  - **Musical Match**: King Tubby & Augustus Pablo (Roots Reggae & Heavy Dub)
- [Virginia Opossum](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/virginia-opossum/) (*Didelphis virginiana*)
  - **Superpower**: Involuntary catatonic collapse paired with near-total resistance to pit viper venom.
  - **Musical Match**: Babes in Toyland (90s Riot Grrrl & Grunge)
- [Vogelkop Bowerbird](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/vogelkop-bowerbird/) (*Amblyornis inornata*)
  - **Superpower**: Builds a different bower style depending on population, which may be a partly learned tradition passed down like a human art style.
  - **Musical Match**: Sufjan Stevens (Art Pop & Baroque Pop)
- [Volta Electric Eel](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/electric-eel/) (*Electrophorus voltai*)
  - **Superpower**: Bioelectrogenesis discharging up to 860 volts of direct electrical current
  - **Musical Match**: Daft Punk (Classic Funk, Soul & Disco)
- [Weddell Seal](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/weddell-seal/) (*Leptonychotes weddellii*)
  - **Superpower**: Rasps breathing holes open through new sea ice with its canine and incisor teeth, dives as deep as 720 metres, and can stay under for more than 90 minutes with no neurological or behavioural impairment.
  - **Musical Match**: Jon Hopkins (IDM, Glitch & Ambient Synthesis)
- [Wels Catfish](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/wels-catfish/) (*Silurus glanis*)
  - **Superpower**: Recorded maxima of 2.73 meters and 130 kilograms, and the ability to track a prey fish's wake with no visible light
  - **Musical Match**: Red Fang (Stoner Rock & Desert Groove)
- [Western Diamondback Rattlesnake](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/western-diamondback-rattlesnake/) (*Crotalus atrox*)
  - **Superpower**: A heat-sensing pit on each side of its head
  - **Musical Match**: Metallica (Thrash Metal & Speed Metal)
- [Western Grebe](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/western-grebe/) (*Aechmophorus occidentalis*)
  - **Superpower**: A neck structure, found among grebes only in it and Clark's grebe, for rapid spear-like thrusting of the bill
  - **Musical Match**: Bee Gees (70s Pop & Glam Disco)
- [White-Nosed Coati](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/white-nosed-coati/) (*Nasua narica*)
  - **Superpower**: A flexible snout that sniffs out beetles, scorpions and grubs from the forest floor.
  - **Musical Match**: Electrelane (Krautrock & Electronic Pioneers)
- [White-Tailed Deer](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/white-tailed-deer/) (*Odocoileus virginianus*)
  - **Superpower**: A white tail raised as a danger signal
  - **Musical Match**: Antonio Vivaldi (Neo-Classical & Baroque Chamber)
- [Wild Boar](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/wild-boar/) (*Sus scrofa*)
  - **Superpower**: A long, flattened snout that gives it a heightened sense of smell
  - **Musical Match**: Maurice Ravel (Neo-Classical & Baroque Chamber)
- [Wild Turkey](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/wild-turkey/) (*Meleagris gallopavo*)
  - **Superpower**: A gobble that can be heard up to a mile away
  - **Musical Match**: The Meters (Classic Funk, Soul & Disco)
- [Wolverine](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/wolverine/) (*Gulo gulo*)
  - **Superpower**: Durophagous (bone-crushing) teeth, the stiffest and most crush-resistant jaw-joint bone of 40 carnivores tested, and a powerful jaw and large neck muscles that let it crush and use bones and frozen flesh.
  - **Musical Match**: Turnstile (Hardcore Punk & Post-Hardcore)

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