--- title: "Least Concern Animals (Page 2 of 12) | AnimalTracks.wiki" description: "Widespread and stable, for now. Being common is not the same as being safe, and several of these were assessed decades ago." image: "https://animaltracks.wiki/icon-512.png" canonical: "https://animaltracks.wiki/status/least-concern/page/2/" --- # Least Concern Animals (Page 2 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.** - [Banded Archerfish](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/banded-archerfish/) (*Toxotes jaculatrix*) - **Superpower**: A pulsed water jet that gathers its own mass mid-air into a single, hard-hitting slug - **Musical Match**: Polyphia (Math Rock & Instrumental Virtuoso) - [Bare-Nosed Wombat](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/bare-nosed-wombat/) (*Vombatus ursinus*) - **Superpower**: A rump of very tough, thick skin that shields it from teeth and claws, and back legs strong enough to crush an attacker against the burrow roof. - **Musical Match**: Silverchair (90s Grunge & Heavy Alt-Rock) - [Barn Owl](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/barn-owl/) (*Tyto alba*) - **Superpower**: In tests, it found prey in total darkness by sound alone with an error of under one degree. Its two external ears are asymmetric, and a flap of skin in front of each ear opening can redirect where that ear is most sensitive. - **Musical Match**: Grouper (Glacial Ambient & Drone Soundscapes) - [Barramundi](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/barramundi/) (*Lates calcarifer*) - **Superpower**: Sex change: most mature as males, then switch to female as they grow - **Musical Match**: Tycho (Glacial Ambient & Drone Soundscapes) - [Beluga Whale](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/beluga-whale/) (*Delphinapterus leucas*) - **Superpower**: A flexible melon that focuses and modulates its echolocation clicks, and a bulbous forehead that can break through ice 10 centimetres thick - **Musical Match**: Simon & Garfunkel (Pastoral Folk & Progressive Bluegrass) - [Bighorn Sheep](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/bighorn-sheep/) (*Ovis canadensis*) - **Superpower**: A double-layered skull shored with struts of bone and a massive tendon linking skull to spine; the thick, bony skull absorbs repeated head-on clashes at up to 40 mph with little injury to the ram. - **Musical Match**: Mdou Moctar (Saharan Desert Rock & Tuareg Shred) - [Black Caiman](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/black-caiman/) (*Melanosuchus niger*) - **Superpower**: A bite measured at up to 4,310 newtons in three tested adults, from the reptile group with the highest bite forces known. - **Musical Match**: Neurosis (Sludge Metal & Abyssal Doom) - [Black Ghost Knifefish](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/black-ghost-knifefish/) (*Apteronotus albifrons*) - **Superpower**: A continuous electric discharge, plus electroreceptors one study estimated in the thousands, for finding prey in the dark - **Musical Match**: Bad Omens (Modern Alt-Metal & Post-Hardcore) - [Black Mamba](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/black-mamba/) (*Dendroaspis polylepis*) - **Superpower**: Venom that attacks the nervous system two ways at once, dendrotoxins that jam nerve potassium channels plus neurotoxins that block nerve-muscle signals, backed by speeds of up to 20 km/h (12.5 mph). - **Musical Match**: Burna Boy (Afrobeats & Modern Amapiano) - [Black Swan](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/black-swan/) (*Cygnus atratus*) - **Superpower**: A crinkle-feathered wing display backed by loud, warning wing-beats - **Musical Match**: Beyoncé (2000s Pop & R&B Anthem) - [Black-Tailed Jackrabbit](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/black-tailed-jackrabbit/) (*Lepus californicus*) - **Superpower**: Zigzags at up to 40 miles per hour, and at a moderate run makes every fourth or fifth leap a high one to look for predators - **Musical Match**: tricot (Math Rock & Midwest Emo) - [Black-Tailed Prairie Dog](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/black-tailed-prairie-dog/) (*Cynomys ludovicianus*) - **Superpower**: A broad range of calls, including alarm calls that carry information about predators on the ground, and a jump-yip that seems to set off neighbors in adjacent coteries - **Musical Match**: Madness (Ska-Punk & 2-Tone) - [Blue Jay](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/blue-jay/) (*Cyanocitta cristata*) - **Superpower**: Can imitate the scream of a Red-shouldered Hawk - **Musical Match**: The Avalanches (Organic Downtempo & Micro-Sampling) - [Blue Wildebeest](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/blue-wildebeest/) (*Connochaetes taurinus*) - **Superpower**: Forelimb muscle that works at 62.6% efficiency, against 41.8% in a cow's - **Musical Match**: Caterina Barbieri (IDM & Glitch Ambient Synthesis) - [Blue-and-Yellow Macaw](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/blue-and-yellow-macaw/) (*Ara ararauna*) - **Superpower**: A beak strong enough to crush open nuts and seeds, and bare cheeks that blush red - **Musical Match**: Britney Spears (90s Pop & Eurodance) - [Blue-Footed Booby](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/blue-footed-booby/) (*Sula nebouxii*) - **Superpower**: Blue feet colored by collagen and carotenoid pigment, which researchers suggest signal a male's current condition, plus sealed nostrils and skull air sacs that protect its brain on dives of up to 60 mph. - **Musical Match**: Foals (Dance-Punk & Electroclash) - [Blue-Ringed Octopus](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/blue-ringed-octopus/) (*Hapalochlaena lunulata*) - **Superpower**: Symbiotic Tetrodotoxin Neurotoxin & Optical Iridophore Ring Strobing - **Musical Match**: Ladytron (Dance-Punk & Electroclash) - [Boa Constrictor](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/boa-constrictor/) (*Boa constrictor*) - **Superpower**: Squeezes just enough to stop the prey's heart pumping blood - **Musical Match**: Earth (Sludge Metal & Abyssal Doom) - [Bobcat](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/bobcat/) (*Lynx rufus*) - **Superpower**: Steps its back feet into its front-foot prints to cut the noise of its stalk - **Musical Match**: Julianna Barwick (Glacial Ambient & Drone Soundscapes) - [Boomslang](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/boomslang/) (*Dispholidus typus*) - **Superpower**: A metalloproteinase-loaded hemotoxin that triggers uncontrolled clotting until the blood's clotting factors run out, paired with huge round-pupil eyes and a 180-degree gape that drives its rear fangs home. - **Musical Match**: Hugh Masekela (African Rumba & Mande Pop) - [Bottlenose Dolphin](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/bottlenose-dolphin/) (*Tursiops truncatus*) - **Superpower**: A signature whistle other dolphins can recognize even with its voice features removed, plus echolocation focused through a fatty lens for sound to find prey and read the seafloor. - **Musical Match**: Spice Girls (90s Pop & Eurodance) - [Bowhead Whale](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/bowhead-whale/) (*Balaena mysticetus*) - **Superpower**: A bow-shaped skull about a third of its body length, large and thick enough to break through sea ice 8 inches thick. - **Musical Match**: Anoushka Shankar (South Asian Raga & Indian Fusion) - [Brown Rat](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/brown-rat/) (*Rattus norvegicus*) - **Superpower**: Feels its way through total darkness with paws and whiskers, backed by a spectacular sense of smell - **Musical Match**: Nirvana (90s Grunge & Heavy Alt-Rock) - [Budgerigar](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/budgerigar/) (*Melopsittacus undulatus*) - **Superpower**: Rewrites its own contact call as an adult to match a new mate's voice, in about two weeks on average - **Musical Match**: Stevie Wonder (Classic Funk, Soul & Disco) - Previous Page: https://animaltracks.wiki/status/least-concern/ - Next Page: https://animaltracks.wiki/status/least-concern/page/3/ Conservation categories are from the [IUCN Red List of Threatened Species](https://www.iucnredlist.org/). 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