--- title: "Desert Animals (Page 2 of 2) | AnimalTracks.wiki" description: "Surviving intense solar heat, freezing nights, and extreme water scarcity through concentrated waste and burrowing." image: "https://animaltracks.wiki/icon-512.png" canonical: "https://animaltracks.wiki/tags/desert/page/2/" --- # Desert Animals (Page 2 of 2) > Surviving intense solar heat, freezing nights, and extreme water scarcity through concentrated waste and burrowing. **44 species in this collection.** - [Greater Roadrunner](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/greater-roadrunner/) (*Geococcyx californianus*) - **Superpower**: Runs at up to 20 mph, smashes prey against rocks, and saves energy by basking black skin on its back in the sun. - **Musical Match**: Cassyette (Alt-Metal & Nu-Rock) - [Hamadryas Baboon](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/hamadryas-baboon/) (*Papio hamadryas*) - **Superpower**: A four-level society, from one-male harem units up through clans and bands to troops of several hundred that share one sleeping cliff - **Musical Match**: MONO (Post-Rock & Cinematic Orchestral) - [Harris's Hawk](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/harris-hawk/) (*Parabuteo unicinctus*) - **Superpower**: Cooperative pack-hunting tactics and the highest colour-vision resolution measured in any animal to date - **Musical Match**: Television (Art Punk & Experimental Post-Punk) - [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) - [Honey Badger](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/honey-badger/) (*Mellivora capensis*) - **Superpower**: Venom resistance from a muscle receptor that impedes snake toxin binding, and thick, loose skin that stops a predator getting a firm grip and lets it turn and bite - **Musical Match**: X-Ray Spex (Classic Punk & 70s Garage) - [Inland Taipan](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/inland-taipan/) (*Oxyuranus microlepidotus*) - **Superpower**: Paradoxin, a presynaptic neurotoxin that stops nerve endings releasing the signal that makes muscles contract. The whole venom is rated the most toxic of any snake's in LD50 tests on mice. - **Musical Match**: Spiritbox (Modern Metalcore & Djent) - [Leopard Gecko](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/leopard-gecko/) (*Eublepharis macularius*) - **Superpower**: A detached tail that keeps moving, flips included, for up to 30 minutes - **Musical Match**: Red Hot Chili Peppers (Pop-Punk & 2000s Alt-Rock) - [Meerkat](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/meerkat/) (*Suricata suricatta*) - **Superpower**: A rotating sentinel watch with alarm calls graded by urgency, dark eye patches that cut the sun's glare, and some immunity to a scorpion's sting. - **Musical Match**: Bob Marley & The Wailers (Roots Reggae & Heavy Dub) - [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) - [Pallas's Cat (Manul)](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/pallas-cat/) (*Otocolobus manul*) - **Superpower**: A flat head with short ears set low on the sides, letting it peer over boulders while stalking prey without being seen. - **Musical Match**: Mortiis (Dungeon Synth & Dark Fantasy) - [Pink Fairy Armadillo](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/pink-fairy-armadillo/) (*Chlamyphorus truncatus*) - **Superpower**: An almost entirely underground mammal in a shell of bony plates and hardened scales, and almost all of that shell is flexible. - **Musical Match**: Pale Waves (Dream Pop & Neon Indie) - [Pronghorn](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/pronghorn/) (*Antilocapra americana*) - **Superpower**: Distance speed: can run 11 km at an average of 65 km/h, powered by an extraordinary capacity to consume and process oxygen - **Musical Match**: Kraftwerk (Krautrock & Electronic Pioneers) - [Red Kangaroo](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/red-kangaroo/) (*Osphranter rufus*) - **Superpower**: Powerful hind legs and a balancing tail carry it at up to 64 km/h, and its energy use stays nearly the same as it hops faster on level ground. - **Musical Match**: AC/DC (Classic Hard Rock & Southern Blues) - [Short-Beaked Echidna](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/echidna/) (*Tachyglossus aculeatus*) - **Superpower**: An electric sense in the snout, the first known in a land animal, plus 693 scent-receptor genes to the platypus's 299, which may help it search for the odours of underground prey. - **Musical Match**: The Drones (Art Punk & Experimental Post-Punk) - [Springbok](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/springbok/) (*Antidorcas marsupialis*) - **Superpower**: Pronking: stiff-legged vertical leaps up to 3.5 m high. - **Musical Match**: Van Halen (80s Pop & Dance Anthem) - [Texas Horned Lizard](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/texas-horned-lizard/) (*Phrynosoma cornutum*) - **Superpower**: Blood-squirting eye defense and skin channels that steer water toward its snout - **Musical Match**: Calexico (Desert Americana & Cinematic Rock) - [Thorny Devil](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/thorny-devil/) (*Moloch horridus*) - **Superpower**: Grooves between its scales collect water and carry it by capillary action, even against gravity, to the corners of its mouth. - **Musical Match**: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard (Psychedelic Rock & Neo-Psych) - [Veiled Chameleon](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/veiled-chameleon/) (*Chamaeleo calyptratus*) - **Superpower**: An elastic tongue that can accelerate at more than 50 times the pull of gravity and reach full length in under 30 milliseconds. - **Musical Match**: King Tubby & Augustus Pablo (Roots Reggae & Heavy Dub) - [Western Diamondback Rattlesnake](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/western-diamondback-rattlesnake/) (*Crotalus atrox*) - **Superpower**: A heat-sensing pit on each side of its head - **Musical Match**: Metallica (Thrash Metal & Speed Metal) - [Yellow-Footed Rock-Wallaby](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/yellow-footed-rock-wallaby/) (*Petrogale xanthopus*) - **Superpower**: Leaps of up to four metres from rock to rock on short-clawed, thickly padded hind feet - **Musical Match**: Sum 41 (Pop-Punk & 2000s Alt-Rock) - Previous Page: https://animaltracks.wiki/tags/desert/ - Next Page: None