--- title: "Herbivore Animals (Page 3 of 4) | AnimalTracks.wiki" description: "Feeding exclusively on vegetation, relying on specialized microbial fermentation to break down tough plant cellulose." image: "https://animaltracks.wiki/icon-512.png" canonical: "https://animaltracks.wiki/tags/herbivore/page/3/" --- # Herbivore Animals (Page 3 of 4) > Feeding exclusively on vegetation, relying on specialized microbial fermentation to break down tough plant cellulose. **92 species in this collection.** - [Guinea Pig](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/guinea-pig/) (*Cavia porcellus*) - **Superpower**: Popcorning: playful jumps that researchers list among the signs of good welfare - **Musical Match**: Fleet Foxes (Pastoral Folk & Progressive Bluegrass) - [Highland Cattle](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/highland-cow/) (*Bos taurus*) - **Superpower**: A double coat that means the breed does not need a heavy layer of back fat for insulation. - **Musical Match**: Sigur Rós (Post-Rock & Cinematic Orchestral) - [Hoatzin (Stinkbird)](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/hoatzin/) (*Opisthocomus hoazin*) - **Superpower**: A crop that digests leaves with bacteria in a process akin to a ruminant's, and chicks with wing claws that climb back to the nest if they drop into water to escape predators. - **Musical Match**: Talking Heads (Art Punk & Experimental Post-Punk) - [Impala](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/impala/) (*Aepyceros melampus*) - **Superpower**: Leaps that can span over 9 metres, often over bushes and even other impala. - **Musical Match**: Roni Size & Reprazent (Drum & Bass / Precision Jungle) - [Kakapo (Owl Parrot)](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/kakapo/) (*Strigops habroptilus*) - **Superpower**: Mottled moss-green camouflage, a freeze-in-place defence, and a booming courtship call heard up to 5 kilometres away in ideal conditions. - **Musical Match**: DJ Lag (Afrobeats & Modern Amapiano) - [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) - [Llama](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/llama/) (*Lama glama*) - **Superpower**: Makes heavy chain-only antibodies, and one raised by immunization neutralized 96 of 100 HIV-1 strains tested - **Musical Match**: Philip Glass (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 - **Musical Match**: 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. - **Musical Match**: Buddy Holly (50s Rock & Roll & Rockabilly) - [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) - [Mound-Building Termite](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/mound-building-termite/) (*Macrotermes bellicosus*) - **Superpower**: Queens and kings that can live as long as 20 years in the lab, in a colony that grows its own fungus - **Musical Match**: Terry Riley (Krautrock & Electronic Pioneers) - [Mountain Gorilla](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/mountain-gorilla/) (*Gorilla beringei beringei*) - **Superpower**: A chest-beat drumroll that can be heard more than a kilometer away, pitched lower the bigger the male beating it. - **Musical Match**: The Chemical Brothers (Big Beat & 90s Acid Techno) - [Muskox](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/muskox/) (*Ovibos moschatus*) - **Superpower**: Four inches of horn and three inches of bone over a bull's brain - **Musical Match**: Conan (Sludge Metal & Abyssal Doom) - [Muskrat](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/muskrat/) (*Ondatra zibethicus*) - **Superpower**: Dense fur that traps air for insulation and buoyancy - **Musical Match**: Róisín Murphy (Classic Funk, Soul & Disco) - [Mute Swan](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/mute-swan/) (*Cygnus olor*) - **Superpower**: Raises its wings and twirls in a busking display, part of both rival standoffs and the mating ritual - **Musical Match**: Miki Matsubara (Japanese City Pop & Shibuya-kei) - [North American Beaver](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/north-american-beaver/) (*Castor canadensis*) - **Superpower**: Self-sharpening, iron-strengthened incisors that keep growing throughout its life and can cut through a finger-thick sapling in one bite. - **Musical Match**: Béla Fleck (Pastoral Folk & Progressive Bluegrass) - [Norway Lemming](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/norway-lemming/) (*Lemmus lemmus*) - **Superpower**: Aposematic (warning) coloration and behavior - **Musical Match**: Sam Sparro (2000s Pop & R&B Anthem) - [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) - [Okapi](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/okapi/) (*Okapia johnstoni*) - **Superpower**: A prehensile tongue long enough to reach its own eyes and ears, plus a scent gland on each foot that leaves sticky, tar-like marks on its territory - **Musical Match**: Papa Wemba (African Rumba & Mande Pop) - [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) - [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) - [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) - [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. - **Musical Match**: Caroline Shaw (Neo-Classical & Baroque Chamber) - Previous Page: https://animaltracks.wiki/tags/herbivore/page/2/ - Next Page: https://animaltracks.wiki/tags/herbivore/page/4/