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title: "#Horns Animals & Superpower Traits (9 Species) | AnimalTracks.wiki"
description: "Keratin sheaths anchored over solid bone cores used for high-impact clashes, predator deterrence, and social dominance. Explore all 9 species with this trait in the AnimalTracks wildlife encyclopedia."
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# #Horns Animals & Evolutionary Adaptations

> Keratin sheaths anchored over solid bone cores used for high-impact clashes, predator deterrence, and social dominance.

- **Trait Category**: Speed & Physicality
- **Species Count**: 9 Curated Creatures
- **Browse Web**: [View interactive trait gallery](https://animaltracks.wiki/tags/horns/)

## Species With #Horns

- [African Buffalo](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/african-buffalo/) (*Syncerus caffer*)
  - **Superpower**: Bulls that have been recorded fending off more than one lion
  - **Danger**: Deadly | **Conservation**: Near Threatened
  - **Soundtrack**: Kimbra (2010s Pop & Electropop)
- [Bighorn Sheep](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/bighorn-sheep/) (*Ovis canadensis*)
  - **Superpower**: A double-layered skull shored with struts of bone and a massive tendon linking skull to spine; the thick, bony skull absorbs repeated head-on clashes at up to 40 mph with little injury to the ram.
  - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Least Concern
  - **Soundtrack**: Mdou Moctar (Saharan Desert Rock & Tuareg Shred)
- [Blue Wildebeest](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/blue-wildebeest/) (*Connochaetes taurinus*)
  - **Superpower**: Forelimb muscle that works at 62.6% efficiency, against 41.8% in a cow's
  - **Danger**: Medium | **Conservation**: Least Concern
  - **Soundtrack**: Caterina Barbieri (IDM & Glitch Ambient Synthesis)
- [Gaur](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/gaur/) (*Bos gaurus*)
  - **Superpower**: Herds that, one warden wrote, stand and fight a tiger rather than run
  - **Danger**: Deadly | **Conservation**: Vulnerable
  - **Soundtrack**: Anna Meredith (Post-Rock & Cinematic Orchestral)
- [Goat](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/goat/) (*Capra hircus*)
  - **Superpower**: A digestive system that works nonstop, with a four-compartment stomach and an intestinal canal about 30.5 meters long
  - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Not Evaluated
  - **Soundtrack**: NEU! (Psychedelic Rock & Neo-Psych)
- [Muskox](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/muskox/) (*Ovibos moschatus*)
  - **Superpower**: Four inches of horn and three inches of bone over a bull's brain
  - **Danger**: High | **Conservation**: Least Concern
  - **Soundtrack**: Conan (Sludge Metal & Abyssal Doom)
- [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.
  - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Vulnerable
  - **Soundtrack**: Erkin Koray (Anatolian Rock & Levantine Psych)
- [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
  - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Least Concern
  - **Soundtrack**: Kraftwerk (Krautrock & Electronic Pioneers)
- [Water Buffalo](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/water-buffalo/) (*Bubalus bubalis*)
  - **Superpower**: Wallows in mud to cool off, with sweat glands that are poorly spread
  - **Danger**: High | **Conservation**: Not Evaluated
  - **Soundtrack**: Crowbar (Sludge Metal & Abyssal Doom)

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