--- title: "Near Threatened Animals (Page 1 of 2) | AnimalTracks.wiki" description: "Species that do not yet qualify as threatened but are close enough to be watched carefully." image: "https://animaltracks.wiki/icon-512.png" canonical: "https://animaltracks.wiki/status/near-threatened/" --- # Near Threatened Animals (Page 1 of 2) > Species that do not yet qualify as threatened but are close enough to be watched carefully. **30 species in this collection.** - [African Buffalo](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/african-buffalo/) (*Syncerus caffer*) - **Superpower**: Bulls that have been recorded fending off more than one lion - **Musical Match**: Kimbra (2010s Pop & Electropop) - [American Bison](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/american-bison/) (*Bison bison*) - **Superpower**: A shaggy, heavily insulated head built to face straight into a blizzard and sweep snow off buried grass, backed by a 30 mph top speed. - **Musical Match**: Clutch (Classic Hard Rock & Southern Blues) - [Armadillo Girdled Lizard](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/armadillo-girdled-lizard/) (*Ouroborus cataphractus*) - **Superpower**: Ouroboros Armored Ball & Communal Crevices - **Musical Match**: Queens of the Stone Age (Stoner Rock & Desert Groove) - [Atlantic Halibut](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/atlantic-halibut/) (*Hippoglossus hippoglossus*) - **Superpower**: Moves an eye to the other side of its head during metamorphosis - **Musical Match**: Windhand (Sludge Metal & Abyssal Doom) - [Atlantic Salmon](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/atlantic-salmon/) (*Salmo salar*) - **Superpower**: Imprints on the chemical signature of its home stream, then uses it to find the way back from the sea. - **Musical Match**: Agnes Obel (Neo-Classical & Baroque Chamber) - [Ball Python](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/ball-python/) (*Python regius*) - **Superpower**: Can detect heat given off by other animals, and survived 168 days without food in a lab study - **Musical Match**: Massive Attack (Trip-Hop & Velvet Downtempo) - [Bearded Vulture](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/bearded-vulture/) (*Gypaetus barbatus*) - **Superpower**: A stomach whose pH could be below 1, and dropping bones from the sky to break them open for the marrow inside - **Musical Match**: Nightwish (Symphonic Metal & Gothic Power) - [Duck-Billed Platypus](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/platypus/) (*Ornithorhynchus anatinus*) - **Superpower**: Electroreceptive bill with 40,000 electroreceptors, venomous hind-leg spurs, and cyan-green UV biofluorescence - **Musical Match**: Pink Floyd (Psychedelic Rock & Neo-Psych) - [Emperor Penguin](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/emperor-penguin/) (*Aptenodytes forsteri*) - **Superpower**: Dives deeper than 500 meters and longer than 23 minutes, with hemoglobin that grips oxygen unusually tightly. - **Musical Match**: Ólafur Arnalds (Neo-Classical & Baroque Chamber) - [Eurasian Otter](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/eurasian-otter/) (*Lutra lutra*) - **Superpower**: Vibrissae, whiskers above its lips, that detect changes in the water current and track the movements of fish and other prey underwater. - **Musical Match**: Fairport Convention (Pastoral Folk & Progressive Bluegrass) - [European Hedgehog](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/european-hedgehog/) (*Erinaceus europaeus*) - **Superpower**: A sheet of muscle across the back, the panniculus carnosus, contracts to curl the body into a ball while the muscles linked to each spine contract too, leaving every spine standing on end. - **Musical Match**: Tiny Moving Parts (Math Rock & Midwest Emo) - [European Medicinal Leech](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/european-medicinal-leech/) (*Hirudo medicinalis*) - **Superpower**: Anticoagulant saliva, and one blood meal that can last it 12 to 18 months - **Musical Match**: Lindsey Stirling (2010s Pop & Electropop) - [Gerenuk](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/gerenuk/) (*Litocranius walleri*) - **Superpower**: Rears onto its hind legs to browse tree leaves that are out of reach for most other antelope species - **Musical Match**: Arvo Pärt (Neo-Classical & Baroque Chamber) - [Gila Monster](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/gila-monster/) (*Heloderma suspectum*) - **Superpower**: Beaded osteoderm armor and venom containing exendin-4, the peptide behind the diabetes drug exenatide (Byetta) - **Musical Match**: All Them Witches (Stoner Rock & Desert Groove) - [Jaguar](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/jaguar/) (*Panthera onca*) - **Superpower**: A skull-piercing bite that kills instantly, from jaws that get through thick reptile skin and turtle shells. - **Musical Match**: Bad Bunny (Latin Trap & Heavy 808s) - [Jaguarundi](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/jaguarundi/) (*Herpailurus yagouaroundi*) - **Superpower**: A bigger vocal repertoire than any other cat sharing its range, and a daytime schedule out of step with the nocturnal margay - **Musical Match**: Faith No More (Nu-Metal & 90s Alt-Metal) - [Maned Wolf](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/maned-wolf/) (*Chrysocyon brachyurus*) - **Superpower**: Long legs to see over tall grass and large rotating ears to listen for prey in it, plus territory-marking urine that smells like a skunk to many people. - **Musical Match**: Hole (90s Grunge & Alt-Rock) - [Periodical Cicada](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/periodical-cicada/) (*Magicicada septendecim*) - **Superpower**: Emerges from underground with its whole brood, once every 17 years - **Musical Match**: Glenn Branca (Industrial Noise & Avant-Garde Experimental) - [Philippine Tarsier](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/philippine-tarsier/) (*Carlito syrichta*) - **Superpower**: Eyes that are the largest of any mammal for its body size, a head that rotates 180 degrees, and hearing that reaches about 91 kHz, well into ultrasound. - **Musical Match**: Pastel Ghost (Darkwave & Ethereal Witch House) - [Plains Zebra](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/plains-zebra/) (*Equus quagga*) - **Superpower**: Stripes that a 2014 study linked to biting flies, in a pattern unique enough to work as an ID card for every zebra in the herd. - **Musical Match**: Black Coffee (Afrobeats & Modern Amapiano) - [Potto](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/potto/) (*Perodicticus potto*) - **Superpower**: Retia mirabilia that let it hold still for long periods without fatigue, plus a scapular shield it presents to predators - **Musical Match**: Harold Budd (Glacial Ambient & Drone Soundscapes) - [Resplendent Quetzal](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/resplendent-quetzal/) (*Pharomachrus mocinno*) - **Superpower**: Iridescent Tail Plumes up to 90 cm & Laurel Seed Dispersal - **Musical Match**: Buena Vista Social Club (Cuban Son & Trova) - [Saiga Antelope](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/saiga-antelope/) (*Saiga tatarica*) - **Superpower**: An oversized, inflatable nose that helps it breathe warm air in frosty winters and filter dust in summer. - **Musical Match**: The HU (Nordic & Steppe Folk Metal) - [Southern Stingray](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/southern-stingray/) (*Hypanus americanus*) - **Superpower**: Thousands of electrical sensors on its underside detect the electric field of prey buried in the sand - **Musical Match**: Suzanne Ciani (Krautrock & Electronic Pioneers) - 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