--- title: "#Insectivore Animals & Superpower Traits (33 Species) | AnimalTracks.wiki" description: "Hunting insects, spiders, and grubs with lightning tongues, sharp beaks, or sensitive hearing. Explore all 33 species with this trait in the AnimalTracks wildlife encyclopedia." image: "https://animaltracks.wiki/icon-512.png" --- # #Insectivore Animals & Evolutionary Adaptations > Hunting insects, spiders, and grubs with lightning tongues, sharp beaks, or sensitive hearing. - **Trait Category**: Diet & Ecology - **Species Count**: 33 Curated Creatures - **Browse Web**: [View interactive trait gallery](https://animaltracks.wiki/tags/insectivore/) ## Species With #Insectivore - [Aardvark](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/aardvark/) (*Orycteropus afer*) - **Superpower**: Spade-like claws that dig with great speed and force - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Least Concern - **Soundtrack**: Mike Oldfield (Psychedelic Rock & Neo-Psych) - [Armadillo Girdled Lizard](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/armadillo-girdled-lizard/) (*Ouroborus cataphractus*) - **Superpower**: Ouroboros Armored Ball & Communal Crevices - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Near Threatened - **Soundtrack**: Queens of the Stone Age (Stoner Rock & Desert Groove) - [Axolotl](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/axolotl/) (*Ambystoma mexicanum*) - **Superpower**: Regrows whole limbs, its tail and spinal cord, and parts of its heart and brain; heals deep skin wounds without a scar; keeps its larval gills as a breeding adult - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Critically Endangered - **Soundtrack**: Anamanaguchi & Hatsune Miku (Hyperpop & Kawaii Future Bass) - [Aye-Aye](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/aye-aye/) (*Daubentonia madagascariensis*) - **Superpower**: Tap foraging: it taps wood rapidly with its middle finger, listens for the echo of an insect tunnel, then hooks the larva out with that slender, flexible finger. - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Endangered - **Soundtrack**: Gogol Bordello (Gypsy Punk & Dark Cabaret) - [Bombardier Beetle](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/bombardier-beetle/) (*Brachinus crepitans*) - **Superpower**: Explosive Chemical Spray Up To 100°C, Fired in Rapid Pulses - **Danger**: Medium | **Conservation**: Not Evaluated - **Soundtrack**: Fugazi (Hardcore Punk & Post-Hardcore) - [Common Cuckoo](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/common-cuckoo/) (*Cuculus canorus*) - **Superpower**: Lays eggs that tend to match the host's, and barred underparts make some small birds treat it like a sparrowhawk - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Least Concern - **Soundtrack**: Goldfrapp (70s Pop & Glam Disco) - [Duck-Billed Platypus](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/platypus/) (*Ornithorhynchus anatinus*) - **Superpower**: Electroreceptive bill with 40,000 electroreceptors, venomous hind-leg spurs, and cyan-green UV biofluorescence - **Danger**: High | **Conservation**: Near Threatened - **Soundtrack**: Pink Floyd (Psychedelic Rock & Neo-Psych) - [Etruscan Shrew](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/etruscan-shrew/) (*Suncus etruscus*) - **Superpower**: A heart that has beaten up to 1,511 times a minute, the highest rate reported for a warm-blooded animal - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Least Concern - **Soundtrack**: Nia Archives (Drum & Bass / Spatial Jungle) - [European Hedgehog](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/european-hedgehog/) (*Erinaceus europaeus*) - **Superpower**: A sheet of muscle across the back, the panniculus carnosus, contracts to curl the body into a ball while the muscles linked to each spine contract too, leaving every spine standing on end. - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Near Threatened - **Soundtrack**: Tiny Moving Parts (Math Rock & Midwest Emo) - [European Mole](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/european-mole/) (*Talpa europaea*) - **Superpower**: Digs tunnel networks that can run hundreds of metres, with five-clawed front feet turned outward - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Least Concern - **Soundtrack**: BIG|BRAVE (Sludge Metal & Heavy Drone) - [European Robin](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/european-robin/) (*Erithacus rubecula*) - **Superpower**: A light-sensitive retinal protein called cryptochrome 4 that may let the robin sense Earth's magnetic field through quantum chemistry, a mechanism researchers are still working to confirm. - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Least Concern - **Soundtrack**: Vashti Bunyan (Pastoral Folk & Progressive Bluegrass) - [Fennec Fox](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/fennec-fox/) (*Vulpes zerda*) - **Superpower**: Ears up to 6 inches (15.2 cm) long that dispel desert heat and track down prey under the sand. - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Least Concern - **Soundtrack**: Erykah Badu (Classic Funk, Soul & Disco) - [Frilled Lizard](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/frilled-lizard/) (*Chlamydosaurus kingii*) - **Superpower**: Raises a neck frill held up by hyoid bones and cartilages, with its mouth open, in a startle display; if that fails it usually runs for a tree on its hind legs. - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Least Concern - **Soundtrack**: Wolfmother (Classic Hard Rock & Southern Blues) - [Giant Anteater](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/giant-anteater/) (*Myrmecophaga tridactyla*) - **Superpower**: A 2-foot tongue that flicks in and out up to 150 times per minute - **Danger**: Deadly | **Conservation**: Vulnerable - **Soundtrack**: Minor Threat (Hardcore Punk & Post-Hardcore) - [Giant Ground Pangolin](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/giant-ground-pangolin/) (*Smutsia gigantea*) - **Superpower**: A sticky tongue up to 70 centimeters long for trapping ants and termites, and a scaly body it rolls into a ball that's next to impossible to uncurl. - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Endangered - **Soundtrack**: Tinariwen (Saharan Desert Rock & Tuareg Shred) - [Hispaniolan Solenodon](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/hispaniolan-solenodon/) (*Solenodon paradoxus*) - **Superpower**: Likely the largest living venomous land mammal, delivering venom through a grooved second lower incisor; lab tests suggest it lowers blood pressure. - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Least Concern - **Soundtrack**: Wire (Art Punk & Experimental Post-Punk) - [Laughing Kookaburra](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/laughing-kookaburra/) (*Dacelo novaeguineae*) - **Superpower**: A heavy, boat-shaped bill that grabs a snake behind the head and smashes it against a branch or the ground to kill it. - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Least Concern - **Soundtrack**: Courtney Barnett (Indie Rock & Jangle Pop) - [Leopard Gecko](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/leopard-gecko/) (*Eublepharis macularius*) - **Superpower**: A detached tail that keeps moving, flips included, for up to 30 minutes - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Least Concern - **Soundtrack**: 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. - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Least Concern - **Soundtrack**: Bob Marley & The Wailers (Roots Reggae & Heavy Dub) - [Nine-Banded Armadillo](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/nine-banded-armadillo/) (*Dasypus novemcinctus*) - **Superpower**: One fertilized egg splits into four identical embryos - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Least Concern - **Soundtrack**: Johann Pachelbel (Neo-Classical & Baroque Chamber) - [North Island Brown Kiwi](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/north-island-brown-kiwi/) (*Apteryx mantelli*) - **Superpower**: Nostrils near the tip of a long, curved bill - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Vulnerable - **Soundtrack**: Björk (Art Pop & Baroque Pop) - [Peacock Spider](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/peacock-spider/) (*Maratus volans*) - **Superpower**: A hidden abdominal fan, waved in time with the third pair of legs, and vibrations sent through the ground - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Not Evaluated - **Soundtrack**: Earth, Wind & Fire (Classic Funk, Soul & Disco) - [Pileated Woodpecker](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/pileated-woodpecker/) (*Dryocopus pileatus*) - **Superpower**: A barbed, sticky, stretchy tongue that hauls ants out of tunnels inside wood - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Least Concern - **Soundtrack**: Sheila E. (Classic Funk, Soul & Disco) - [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. - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Data Deficient - **Soundtrack**: Pale Waves (Dream Pop & Neon Indie) - [Satanic Leaf-Tailed Gecko](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/satanic-leaf-tailed-gecko/) (*Uroplatus phantasticus*) - **Superpower**: Camouflage matched to a dead leaf, right down to the apparent decay, missing chunks, and lichen-like patches. - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Least Concern - **Soundtrack**: Bauhaus (Gothic Rock & Post-Punk) - [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. - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Least Concern - **Soundtrack**: The Drones (Art Punk & Experimental Post-Punk) - [Siamese Fighting Fish](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/siamese-fighting-fish/) (*Betta splendens*) - **Superpower**: Breathes air through a labyrinth organ above its gills - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Vulnerable - **Soundtrack**: Imogen Heap (Art Pop & Baroque Pop) - [Sloth Bear](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/sloth-bear/) (*Melursus ursinus*) - **Superpower**: Vacuum-cleaner feeding: a gap where its top two front teeth should be lets it suck up termites, it can close its nostrils while it feeds, and the slurping can be heard up to 100 meters away. - **Danger**: Deadly | **Conservation**: Vulnerable - **Soundtrack**: Carpenter Brut (80s Retrowave & Synthwave) - [Strawberry Poison-Dart Frog](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/strawberry-poison-dart-frog/) (*Oophaga pumilio*) - **Superpower**: Poison collected from its diet, advertised in bright color - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Least Concern - **Soundtrack**: Sleigh Bells (Art Punk & Experimental Post-Punk) - [Sunda Pangolin](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/sunda-pangolin/) (*Manis javanica*) - **Superpower**: Overlapping, sharp-tipped scales, and a well-developed neuromuscular system that curls it into a ball over its scaleless belly - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Critically Endangered - **Soundtrack**: 1000mods (Heavy Psych & Desert Rock) - [Superb Lyrebird](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/superb-lyrebird/) (*Menura novaehollandiae*) - **Superpower**: A song built roughly 80% from mimicry, including an acoustic illusion of a mixed-species alarm flock convincing enough that real birds treat it as genuine. - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Least Concern - **Soundtrack**: Aphex Twin (IDM & Glitch Ambient Synthesis) - [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 - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Least Concern - **Soundtrack**: 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. - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Least Concern - **Soundtrack**: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard (Psychedelic Rock & Neo-Psych) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://animaltracks.wiki/tags/insectivore/#collection", "name": "#Insectivore Animals", "description": "Hunting insects, spiders, and grubs with lightning tongues, sharp beaks, or sensitive hearing. 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