--- title: "Vulnerable Animals (Page 2 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/page/2/" --- # Vulnerable Animals (Page 2 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.** - [Giraffe](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/giraffe/) (*Giraffa camelopardalis*) - **Superpower**: Arterial blood pressure near the heart roughly double a human's, to fight gravity. A mechanical model suggests that a rise in the pressure pushing blood through the brain as the head swings back up may help stop it fainting. - **Musical Match**: Ebo Taylor (Afrobeat) - [Great White Shark](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/great-white-shark/) (*Carcharodon carcharias*) - **Superpower**: Ampullae of Lorenzini that detect electrical signals as faint as 0.005 microvolts, paired with regional endothermy that keeps key parts of its body warmer than the surrounding ocean. - **Musical Match**: Arch Enemy (Thrash Metal & Speed Metal) - [Green Humphead Parrotfish](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/green-humphead-parrotfish/) (*Bolbometopon muricatum*) - **Superpower**: Males headbutt rivals with loud, jarring impacts - **Musical Match**: Royal Blood (Heavy Psych & Garage Rock) - [Greenland Shark](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/greenland-shark/) (*Somniosus microcephalus*) - **Superpower**: It grows less than a centimeter a year, females aren't sexually mature until at least 156 years old, give or take 22, and its lifespan runs to at least 272 years, the longest of any known vertebrate. - **Musical Match**: Kali Malone (Glacial Ambient & Drone Soundscapes) - [Harpy Eagle](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/harpy-eagle/) (*Harpia harpyja*) - **Superpower**: Rear talons about five inches long, larger than a grizzly bear's claws, that the San Diego Zoo says can exert several hundred pounds of pressure, crushing bones and killing prey instantly. - **Musical Match**: Soundgarden (90s Grunge & Heavy Alt-Rock) - [Hellbender](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/hellbender/) (*Cryptobranchus alleganiensis*) - **Superpower**: Cutaneous respiration through wrinkled skin folds, plus a mucus coat distasteful to potential predators - **Musical Match**: Clutch (Stoner Rock & Desert Groove) - [Hippopotamus](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/hippopotamus/) (*Hippopotamus amphibius*) - **Superpower**: A bull's canine tusks keep growing for life and can reach 50 cm, kept sharp by grinding, inside a jaw that gapes 150 degrees, more than three times a human's 45. - **Musical Match**: Skepta (Heavy UK Grime & Sub-Bass) - [Iberian Lynx](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/iberian-lynx/) (*Lynx pardinus*) - **Superpower**: A single kill bite that punctures the back of the prey's neck and severs the spinal cord, on a diet that is 80 to 100 percent European rabbit - **Musical Match**: Photek (Drum & Bass / Precision Jungle) - [Indian Star Tortoise](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/indian-star-tortoise/) (*Geochelone elegans*) - **Superpower**: A starburst shell pattern that breaks up its outline in tall grass, and a body that can survive 10 to 15 days without food - **Musical Match**: Steve Reich (Neo-Classical & Baroque Chamber) - [Japanese Giant Salamander](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/japanese-giant-salamander/) (*Andrias japonicus*) - **Superpower**: Breathes mainly through its wrinkled skin, and has sensory bumps around its head that work like a fish's lateral line. - **Musical Match**: Geinoh Yamashirogumi (Glacial Ambient & Drone Soundscapes) - [King Cobra](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/king-cobra/) (*Ophiophagus hannah*) - **Superpower**: Can deliver more than a gram of neurotoxic venom, measured dry, in a single bite. - **Musical Match**: A Tribe Called Quest (90s East Coast Hip-Hop & Boom Bap) - [Koala](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/koala/) (*Phascolarctos cinereus*) - **Superpower**: A huge caecum, and gut bacteria that break down the eucalyptus toxins most herbivores can't tolerate. - **Musical Match**: Ocean Alley (Psychedelic Rock & Neo-Psych) - [Leatherback Sea Turtle](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/leatherback-sea-turtle/) (*Dermochelys coriacea*) - **Superpower**: Gigantothermy heat retention, and backward-pointing throat spines that help hold prey - **Musical Match**: This Will Destroy You (Cinematic Post-Rock & Ambient Crescendo) - [Leopard](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/leopard/) (*Panthera pardus*) - **Superpower**: Carries a fresh kill up to 15 m (50 ft) up a tree, even one heavier than itself, to keep it from lions and hyenas. - **Musical Match**: Mogwai (Cinematic Post-Rock & Ambient Crescendo) - [Mandrill](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/mandrill/) (*Mandrillus sphinx*) - **Superpower**: Skin colored blue by light-scattering collagen and red by blood, both most saturated in the top-ranked males. - **Musical Match**: David Bowie (70s Pop & Glam Disco) - [Mantled Howler Monkey](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/mantled-howler-monkey/) (*Alouatta palliata*) - **Superpower**: Calls that seem to help keep neighbouring troops apart - **Musical Match**: Amon Amarth (Melodic Death Metal & Gothenburg Sound) - [Marine Iguana](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/marine-iguana/) (*Amblyrhynchus cristatus*) - **Superpower**: Skeletal shrinkage of up to 20% during El Niño food shortages, and nasal glands that expel excess salt - **Musical Match**: Toots & The Maytals (First Wave Ska & Caribbean Rocksteady) - [North Island Brown Kiwi](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/north-island-brown-kiwi/) (*Apteryx mantelli*) - **Superpower**: Nostrils near the tip of a long, curved bill - **Musical Match**: Björk (Art Pop & Baroque Pop) - [Nubian Ibex](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/nubian-ibex/) (*Capra nubiana*) - **Superpower**: Generally keeps to the most remote, highest, and steepest cliffs, where staying near the edge lowers the risk of predation, and typically comes down only to graze. - **Musical Match**: Erkin Koray (Anatolian Rock & Levantine Psych) - [Ocean Sunfish (Mola Mola)](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/mola-mola/) (*Mola mola*) - **Superpower**: A body with no tail fin, steered by a stiff clavus rudder and driven by synchronized, penguin-style dorsal and anal fin strokes - **Musical Match**: Mulatu Astatke (Ethio-Jazz & Horn of Africa Grooves) - [Olm](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/olm/) (*Proteus anguinus*) - **Superpower**: Predicted 100-year-plus lifespan, electroreceptive ampullary organs, and an 18-month experimental fast - **Musical Match**: Burial (Future Garage & Deep Electronica) - [Polar Bear](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/polar-bear/) (*Ursus maritimus*) - **Superpower**: Jet-black skin under hollow, clear guard hairs, with up to 10 centimeters (4 inches) of fat beneath it. - **Musical Match**: Chelsea Wolfe (Blackgaze & Atmospheric Post-Metal) - [Pygmy Marmoset](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/pygmy-marmoset/) (*Cebuella pygmaea*) - **Superpower**: Elongated lower incisors that drill almost perfectly circular holes into trees, working up a favourite tree until it stops yielding enough sap, with as many as 1,300 holes in a single tree. - **Musical Match**: blink-182 (Pop-Punk & 2000s Alt-Rock) - [Quokka](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/quokka/) (*Setonix brachyurus*) - **Superpower**: Three spectrally distinct cone types for colour vision that may help it spot predators. - **Musical Match**: Vampire Weekend (Indie Rock & Jangle Pop) - Previous Page: https://animaltracks.wiki/status/vulnerable/ - Next Page: https://animaltracks.wiki/status/vulnerable/page/3/ Conservation categories are from the [IUCN Red List of Threatened Species](https://www.iucnredlist.org/). 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