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title: "#Endangered Animals & Superpower Traits (12 Species) | AnimalTracks.wiki"
description: "Facing severe population threats from habitat loss and climate shifts, requiring focused global conservation. Explore all 12 species with this trait in the AnimalTracks wildlife encyclopedia."
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# #Endangered Animals & Evolutionary Adaptations

> Facing severe population threats from habitat loss and climate shifts, requiring focused global conservation.

- **Trait Category**: Behavior & Tactics
- **Species Count**: 12 Curated Creatures
- **Browse Web**: [View interactive trait gallery](https://animaltracks.wiki/tags/endangered/)

## Species With #Endangered

- [Asian Elephant](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/asian-elephant/) (*Elephas maximus*)
  - **Superpower**: A trunk with about 150,000 muscle units and tendons
  - **Danger**: Deadly | **Conservation**: Endangered
  - **Soundtrack**: Peter Frampton (Classic Hard Rock & Southern Blues)
- [Bonobo](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/bonobo/) (*Pan paniscus*)
  - **Superpower**: Largely peaceful: a 2011 paper found no confirmed record of infanticide among bonobos, and a 2014 study of four bonobo communities over five decades logged one suspected killing.
  - **Danger**: Medium | **Conservation**: Endangered
  - **Soundtrack**: The Books (Organic Downtempo & Micro-Sampling)
- [Dhole](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/dhole/) (*Cuon alpinus*)
  - **Superpower**: Hunting as a pack, it can catch prey over 10 times its own body weight
  - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Endangered
  - **Soundtrack**: Holly Herndon (Art Pop & Baroque Pop)
- [European Eel](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/european-eel/) (*Anguilla anguilla*)
  - **Superpower**: Swims 5,000 to 10,000 km across the Atlantic to spawn
  - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Critically Endangered
  - **Soundtrack**: Kali Malone (Glacial Ambient & Drone Soundscapes)
- [Geoffroy's Spider Monkey](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/geoffroys-spider-monkey/) (*Ateles geoffroyi*)
  - **Superpower**: A tail that can pick things up and hold the monkey's weight
  - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Endangered
  - **Soundtrack**: Tame Impala (Psychedelic Rock & Neo-Psych)
- [Goliath Frog](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/goliath-frog/) (*Conraua goliath*)
  - **Superpower**: Males build rock and gravel nests and wrestle rivals
  - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Endangered
  - **Soundtrack**: Earthless (Heavy Psych & Desert Rock)
- [Grey Parrot](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/grey-parrot/) (*Psittacus erithacus*)
  - **Superpower**: One bird, Griffin, outperformed 5-year-olds on a cup-logic test
  - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Endangered
  - **Soundtrack**: Bobby McFerrin (Jazz-Funk, Soul & Lounge Fusion)
- [Lar Gibbon](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/lar-gibbon/) (*Hylobates lar*)
  - **Superpower**: Mated pairs sing duets that carry up to a kilometre
  - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Endangered
  - **Soundtrack**: Max Richter (Neo-Classical & Baroque Chamber)
- [Long-Tailed Chinchilla](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/long-tailed-chinchilla/) (*Chinchilla lanigera*)
  - **Superpower**: Fur with up to 60 hairs growing from one follicle
  - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Endangered
  - **Soundtrack**: Lush (Dream Pop & Shoegaze)
- [Malayan Tapir](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/malayan-tapir/) (*Tapirus indicus*)
  - **Superpower**: A prehensile snout, formed from the nose and upper lip, that plucks leaves from branches and places them in its mouth.
  - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Endangered
  - **Soundtrack**: Buddy Holly (50s Rock & Roll & Rockabilly)
- [Przewalski's Horse](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/przewalskis-horse/) (*Equus ferus przewalskii*)
  - **Superpower**: Breeds with domestic horses and gets fertile young, despite 66 chromosomes against their 64.
  - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Endangered
  - **Soundtrack**: Caroline Shaw (Neo-Classical & Baroque Chamber)
- [Vaquita](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/vaquita/) (*Phocoena sinus*)
  - **Superpower**: Nearly continuous echolocation clicks that acoustic detectors can pick up
  - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Critically Endangered
  - **Soundtrack**: Autechre (IDM & Glitch Ambient Synthesis)

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