--- title: "Vulnerable Animals (Page 1 of 3) | AnimalTracks.wiki" description: "Species heading the wrong way. Still numerous in places, but the trend is clear enough for the IUCN to act on it." image: "https://animaltracks.wiki/icon-512.png" canonical: "https://animaltracks.wiki/status/vulnerable/" --- # Vulnerable Animals (Page 1 of 3) > Species heading the wrong way. Still numerous in places, but the trend is clear enough for the IUCN to act on it. **63 species in this collection.** - [African Lion](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/african-lion/) (*Panthera leo*) - **Superpower**: Deep-throated 114-decibel square vocal cords that project territorial warning roars across three miles of open savanna. - **Musical Match**: Florence + The Machine (Art Pop & Baroque Pop) - [American Crocodile](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/american-crocodile/) (*Crocodylus acutus*) - **Superpower**: Tolerates salt water - **Musical Match**: Madonna (80s Pop & Dance Anthem) - [American Paddlefish](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/american-paddlefish/) (*Polyodon spathula*) - **Superpower**: Paddle and head covered in ampullary organs: 50,000 to 70,000 electroreceptors per adult, the largest number of any living vertebrate species - **Musical Match**: Blackberry Smoke (Delta Blues & Swamp Rock) - [Andean Condor](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/andean-condor/) (*Vultur gryphus*) - **Superpower**: Flapped for only 1% of flight time in a tracking study - **Musical Match**: Stars of the Lid (Glacial Ambient & Drone Soundscapes) - [Atlantic Cod](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/atlantic-cod/) (*Gadus morhua*) - **Superpower**: Has lost the genes for MHC II, a standard part of the jawed-vertebrate immune system, but carries a highly expanded set of MHC I genes - **Musical Match**: Sleater-Kinney (90s Riot Grrrl & Grunge) - [Atlantic Horseshoe Crab](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/atlantic-horseshoe-crab/) (*Limulus polyphemus*) - **Superpower**: Blue blood that clots when it meets certain bacteria, which labs use to test medicines and medical devices for endotoxins. - **Musical Match**: Philip Glass (Neo-Classical & Baroque Chamber) - [Atlantic Puffin](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/atlantic-puffin/) (*Fratercula arctica*) - **Superpower**: Jagged marks on its upper bill help it carry more fish, and its wings drive it through both air and water. - **Musical Match**: The Decemberists (Pastoral Folk & Progressive Bluegrass) - [Binturong](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/binturong/) (*Arctictis binturong*) - **Superpower**: Urine containing 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline, the compound likely responsible for its popcorn smell, plus a prehensile tail that works as a fifth limb. - **Musical Match**: Kupla (Chillhop & Lo-Fi Beats) - [Black-Footed Cat](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/black-footed-cat/) (*Felis nigripes*) - **Superpower**: A hunting success rate of around 60 percent, paired with a high metabolic rate that needs about a fifth of its body weight in food each day. - **Musical Match**: Kittie (Nu-Metal & Heavy Alt-Metal) - [Bull Shark](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/bull-shark/) (*Carcharhinus leucas*) - **Superpower**: Blood chemistry that shifts with the water: bull sharks caught in freshwater carried about half the blood urea of those caught at sea. - **Musical Match**: IDLES (Hardcore Punk & Post-Hardcore) - [Burmese Python](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/burmese-python/) (*Python bivittatus*) - **Superpower**: Jaws that stretch to swallow prey several times as wide as its head - **Musical Match**: Ellie Goulding (2010s Pop & Electropop) - [Chambered Nautilus](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/chambered-nautilus/) (*Nautilus pompilius*) - **Superpower**: A chambered shell with a gas-releasing buoyancy tube called the siphuncle, plus more than 90 suckerless tentacles and a pair of rhinophores that track an odor plume to its source - **Musical Match**: Chon (Math Rock & Midwest Emo) - [Cheetah](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/cheetah/) (*Acinonyx jubatus*) - **Superpower**: Accelerates 0 to 45 mph (72 km/h) in about 2.5 seconds, with a tail that acts as a rudder for quick turning - **Musical Match**: Rudimental (Drum & Bass / Spatial Jungle) - [Clouded Leopard](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/clouded-leopard/) (*Neofelis nebulosa*) - **Superpower**: Rotating ankles let it climb down a tree headfirst and hang from its back feet - **Musical Match**: The Beatles (Psychedelic Rock & Neo-Psych) - [Coconut Crab](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/coconut-crab/) (*Birgus latro*) - **Superpower**: An estimated 3,300-newton claw pinch for a 4-kilogram crab, calculated from measurements on wild animals, enough to beat the bite force of most living land predators, alligators excepted. - **Musical Match**: Fela Kuti (Afrobeat) - [Dingo](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/dingo/) (*Canis familiaris*) - **Superpower**: Rarely barks. It howls to call its pack together or warn off intruders, and marks the edges of its territory with scent: rubbing, urinating and defecating on objects. - **Musical Match**: The Chats (Aussie Garage Punk & Pub Rock) - [Dugong](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/dugong/) (*Dugong dugon*) - **Superpower**: Rips up whole seagrass plants with a flexible upper lip - **Musical Match**: Low (Slowcore & Minimal Indie) - [Fire Salamander](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/fire-salamander/) (*Salamandra salamandra*) - **Superpower**: Glands behind the eyes and down the body that secrete toxic alkaloids, which it can actively spray at an attacker. - **Musical Match**: Lake Malice (Electronic Metalcore & Nu-Metal) - [Fossa](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/fossa/) (*Cryptoprocta ferox*) - **Superpower**: A tail about half its total length that helps it balance and jump from branch to branch, plus retractable claws and flexible ankle joints that help it climb down a tree headfirst. - **Musical Match**: Squarepusher (Drum & Bass / Spatial Jungle) - [Gaboon Viper](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/gaboon-viper/) (*Bitis gabonica*) - **Superpower**: Fangs up to 5 cm long, the longest of any venomous snake - **Musical Match**: Explosions in the Sky (Post-Rock & Cinematic Orchestral) - [Gaur](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/gaur/) (*Bos gaurus*) - **Superpower**: Herds that, one warden wrote, stand and fight a tiger rather than run - **Musical Match**: Anna Meredith (Post-Rock & Cinematic Orchestral) - [Ghost Bat](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/ghost-bat/) (*Macroderma gigas*) - **Superpower**: Highly sensitive low-frequency hearing, and the sharpest estimated vision of six echolocating bats compared in one study - **Musical Match**: Spiritbox (Modern Metalcore & Djent) - [Giant Anteater](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/giant-anteater/) (*Myrmecophaga tridactyla*) - **Superpower**: A 2-foot tongue that flicks in and out up to 150 times per minute - **Musical Match**: Minor Threat (Hardcore Punk & Post-Hardcore) - [Giant Panda](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/giant-panda/) (*Ailuropoda melanoleuca*) - **Superpower**: The strongest jaws of any bear, and a radial sesamoid wrist bone that works as a spare thumb for gripping bamboo. - **Musical Match**: Nujabes (Chillhop & Lo-Fi Beats) - Previous Page: None - Next Page: https://animaltracks.wiki/status/vulnerable/page/2/ Conservation categories are from the [IUCN Red List of Threatened Species](https://www.iucnredlist.org/). 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