--- title: "Least Concern Animals (Page 5 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/5/" --- # Least Concern Animals (Page 5 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.** - [European Herring Gull](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/european-herring-gull/) (*Larus argentatus*) - **Superpower**: Paddles its feet on the ground to flush worms to the surface - **Musical Match**: Eurythmics (80s Pop & Dance Anthem) - [European Mantis](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/european-mantis/) (*Mantis religiosa*) - **Superpower**: A single ear on its underside, tuned to ultrasound - **Musical Match**: Ryoji Ikeda (IDM & Glitch Ambient Synthesis) - [European Mole](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/european-mole/) (*Talpa europaea*) - **Superpower**: Digs tunnel networks that can run hundreds of metres, with five-clawed front feet turned outward - **Musical Match**: BIG|BRAVE (Sludge Metal & Heavy Drone) - [European Polecat](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/european-polecat/) (*Mustela putorius*) - **Superpower**: A key-lock jaw hinge whose grip is tenacious enough that it can be lifted and suspended by whatever it holds in its teeth, backed by a strong-smelling secretion from its anal glands when threatened. - **Musical Match**: Green Day (Pop-Punk & 2000s Alt-Rock) - [European Robin](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/european-robin/) (*Erithacus rubecula*) - **Superpower**: A light-sensitive retinal protein called cryptochrome 4 that may let the robin sense Earth's magnetic field through quantum chemistry, a mechanism researchers are still working to confirm. - **Musical Match**: Vashti Bunyan (Pastoral Folk & Progressive Bluegrass) - [European Starling](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/european-starling/) (*Sturnus vulgaris*) - **Superpower**: A voicebox with two independent sound sources, which in males handle mostly low notes on the left and higher ones on the right, plus six distinct flock escape patterns under falcon attack - **Musical Match**: NewJeans (Hyperpop & Kawaii Future Bass) - [European Storm Petrel](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/european-storm-petrel/) (*Hydrobates pelagicus*) - **Superpower**: Runs on stomach oil while incubating (if that oil supplies all its energy, it accounts for 76% of the weight lost each day on the nest), and its chicks can apparently recognize their own body odor - **Musical Match**: Tokio Hotel (2000s Pop-Rock & Emo) - [Fangtooth](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/fangtooth/) (*Anoplogaster cornuta*) - **Superpower**: Fangs so long that the lower pair slide into pockets in the roof of its mouth, reportedly the largest teeth of any marine fish for its head size - **Musical Match**: Bloodbath (Brutal Death Metal & Heavy Groove) - [Fennec Fox](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/fennec-fox/) (*Vulpes zerda*) - **Superpower**: Ears up to 6 inches (15.2 cm) long that dispel desert heat and track down prey under the sand. - **Musical Match**: Erykah Badu (Classic Funk, Soul & Disco) - [Fisher](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/fisher/) (*Pekania pennanti*) - **Superpower**: Its embryos pause for 10 to 11 months and a mother mates again soon after giving birth, so a female is pregnant or nursing for almost all of her adult life - **Musical Match**: Pauline Oliveros (Glacial Ambient & Drone Soundscapes) - [Frilled Lizard](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/frilled-lizard/) (*Chlamydosaurus kingii*) - **Superpower**: Raises a neck frill held up by hyoid bones and cartilages, with its mouth open, in a startle display; if that fails it usually runs for a tree on its hind legs. - **Musical Match**: Wolfmother (Classic Hard Rock & Southern Blues) - [Frilled Shark](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/frilled-shark/) (*Chlamydoselachus anguineus*) - **Superpower**: Six frilly gill slits, tricuspid teeth, and a lineage estimated at 82 million years old. - **Musical Match**: Bring Me The Horizon (Modern Alt-Metal & Post-Hardcore) - [Gelada](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/gelada/) (*Theropithecus gelada*) - **Superpower**: Opposable-finger precision grazing, a lip-flip no other primate can perform, and cliff-ledge sleeping refuges - **Musical Match**: Jacob Collier (Art Pop & Baroque Pop) - [Gentoo Penguin](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/gentoo-penguin/) (*Pygoscelis papua*) - **Superpower**: Bimodal diving: in one tracking study, shallow dives averaged 4 metres and deep dives 80 metres - **Musical Match**: Backstreet Boys (90s Pop & Eurodance) - [Geography Cone Snail](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/geography-cone-snail/) (*Conus geographus*) - **Superpower**: Venom insulin that appears to be part of the "nirvana cabal," a toxin mix released into the water to disorient schools of small fish, which the snail then engulfs and harpoons with a hollow radular tooth. - **Musical Match**: Carpenter Brut (French Dark Electro & EBM) - [Giant Oarfish](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/giant-oarfish/) (*Regalecus glesne*) - **Superpower**: Swims with its body held straight by rippling a dorsal fin that runs its whole length, and has been seen swimming upright, which is believed to be how it searches for prey. - **Musical Match**: Stars of the Lid (Glacial Ambient & Drone Soundscapes) - [Giant Pacific Octopus](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/giant-pacific-octopus/) (*Enteroctopus dofleini*) - **Superpower**: Three hearts, blue copper-rich blood, about 2,140 to 2,240 suckers that grip, taste, and smell, and a body that can squeeze through any hole large enough for its beak. - **Musical Match**: Radiohead (Trip-Hop & Velvet Downtempo) - [Giant Prickly Stick Insect](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/giant-prickly-stick-insect/) (*Extatosoma tiaratum*) - **Superpower**: Hatches looking and behaving like an ant - **Musical Match**: Beach House (Dream Pop & Shoegaze) - [Giant Squid](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/giant-squid/) (*Architeuthis dux*) - **Superpower**: Two long feeding tentacles that strike and tangle prey - **Musical Match**: Bell Witch (Sludge Metal & Abyssal Doom) - [Goblin Shark](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/goblin-shark/) (*Mitsukurina owstoni*) - **Superpower**: Catapulting slingshot feeding mechanism that launches its jaws at up to 3.1 meters per second - **Musical Match**: Lustmord (Glacial Ambient & Drone Soundscapes) - [Golden Eagle](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/golden-eagle/) (*Aquila chrysaetos*) - **Superpower**: A dive of up to 120 mph (193 km/h) and a hunting style that often has one eagle drive prey toward its waiting partner. - **Musical Match**: Boards of Canada (IDM & Glitch Ambient Synthesis) - [Golden Jackal](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/golden-jackal/) (*Canis aureus*) - **Superpower**: A fast geographic expansion across Europe over the last century, in at least two waves - **Musical Match**: Simon & Garfunkel (Pastoral Folk & Progressive Bluegrass) - [Golden Mole](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/golden-mole/) (*Eremitalpa granti*) - **Superpower**: A middle-ear malleus denser than any other land mammal's on record, expected to boost the bone conduction it uses to detect seismic vibrations - **Musical Match**: Lee "Scratch" Perry (Classic Dub & Roots Sound) - [Gouldian Finch](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/gouldian-finch/) (*Chloebia gouldiae*) - **Superpower**: A small stretch of DNA near the Follistatin gene that sets red or black head color, plus chick beak nodules that reflect light to help parents feed them in the dark - **Musical Match**: Elton John (70s Pop & Glam Disco) - Previous Page: https://animaltracks.wiki/status/least-concern/page/4/ - Next Page: https://animaltracks.wiki/status/least-concern/page/6/ Conservation categories are from the [IUCN Red List of Threatened Species](https://www.iucnredlist.org/). 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