--- title: "#Invasive Animals & Superpower Traits (23 Species) | AnimalTracks.wiki" description: "Proliferating rapidly outside native ranges, outcompeting endemic wildlife through adaptability and fast breeding. Explore all 23 species with this trait in the AnimalTracks wildlife encyclopedia." image: "https://animaltracks.wiki/icon-512.png" --- # #Invasive Animals & Evolutionary Adaptations > Proliferating rapidly outside native ranges, outcompeting endemic wildlife through adaptability and fast breeding. - **Trait Category**: Behavior & Tactics - **Species Count**: 23 Curated Creatures - **Browse Web**: [View interactive trait gallery](https://animaltracks.wiki/tags/invasive/) ## Species With #Invasive - [American Mink](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/american-mink/) (*Neogale vison*) - **Superpower**: Swims up to 30 meters underwater while hunting, with partially webbed toes and a waterproof coat - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Least Concern - **Soundtrack**: Sade (Jazz-Funk, Soul & Lounge Fusion) - [Asian Tiger Mosquito](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/asian-tiger-mosquito/) (*Aedes albopictus*) - **Superpower**: Drought-resistant eggs that, in European populations, pause through winter and survived a -10 °C cold spell - **Danger**: Deadly | **Conservation**: Not Evaluated - **Soundtrack**: Laurie Spiegel (Krautrock & Electronic Pioneers) - [Brown Marmorated Stink Bug](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/brown-marmorated-stink-bug/) (*Halyomorpha halys*) - **Superpower**: A male-produced aggregation pheromone that attracted females, males and nymphs in field trials - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Not Evaluated - **Soundtrack**: Florence + The Machine (2010s Pop & Electropop) - [Brown Rat](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/brown-rat/) (*Rattus norvegicus*) - **Superpower**: Feels its way through total darkness with paws and whiskers, backed by a spectacular sense of smell - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Least Concern - **Soundtrack**: Nirvana (90s Grunge & Heavy Alt-Rock) - [Burmese Python](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/burmese-python/) (*Python bivittatus*) - **Superpower**: Jaws that stretch to swallow prey several times as wide as its head - **Danger**: Deadly | **Conservation**: Vulnerable - **Soundtrack**: Ellie Goulding (2010s Pop & Electropop) - [Cane Toad](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/cane-toad/) (*Rhinella marina*) - **Superpower**: Large parotoid glands on the shoulders secrete toxins when the toad is under threat, which may cause profuse salivation, twitching, vomiting, shallow breathing and collapse of the hind limbs in predators, and even death in some of them, including dogs. - **Danger**: Medium | **Conservation**: Least Concern - **Soundtrack**: Midnight Oil (Aussie Garage Punk & Pub Rock) - [Common Earwig](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/common-earwig/) (*Forficula auricularia*) - **Superpower**: A mother that grooms and guards her eggs like a hen, and hind wings that must be unfolded by the tail forceps - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Not Evaluated - **Soundtrack**: Mary Lattimore (Glacial Ambient & Drone Soundscapes) - [Coypu](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/coypu/) (*Myocastor coypus*) - **Superpower**: Eyes, ears and nostrils all sit on top of the skull, a layout that suits a life spent in the water. - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Least Concern - **Soundtrack**: Lush (Dream Pop & Shoegaze) - [Eastern Gray Squirrel](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/eastern-gray-squirrel/) (*Sciurus carolinensis*) - **Superpower**: Known to dig decoy caches, covering holes with no food in them, when other squirrels are around - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Least Concern - **Soundtrack**: Lisa Gerrard (Ethereal Wave & Dream Pop) - [Green Iguana](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/green-iguana/) (*Iguana iguana*) - **Superpower**: Sheds its tail to escape and dives from overhanging branches into water - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Least Concern - **Soundtrack**: The Police (80s Pop & Dance Anthem) - [House Mouse](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/house-mouse/) (*Mus musculus*) - **Superpower**: Males sing ultrasonic songs when they smell a female - **Danger**: Medium | **Conservation**: Least Concern - **Soundtrack**: Depeche Mode (Coldwave & Glacial Post-Punk) - [House Sparrow](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/house-sparrow/) (*Passer domesticus*) - **Superpower**: Evolving regional differences in color and size in new lands - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Least Concern - **Soundtrack**: Johann Sebastian Bach (Neo-Classical & Baroque Chamber) - [Nile Tilapia](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/nile-tilapia/) (*Oreochromis niloticus*) - **Superpower**: Mouthbrooding: the female carries up to 200 eggs in her mouth until the larvae have absorbed their yolk sacs. - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Least Concern - **Soundtrack**: Camille (Art Pop & Baroque Pop) - [Rainbow Trout](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/rainbow-trout/) (*Oncorhynchus mykiss*) - **Superpower**: One gene, sdY, decides whether it becomes male or female - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Least Concern - **Soundtrack**: Fleetwood Mac (Classic Hard Rock & Southern Blues) - [Red Imported Fire Ant](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/red-imported-fire-ant/) (*Solenopsis invicta*) - **Superpower**: Links bodies with its nestmates to form a waterproof raft - **Danger**: Medium | **Conservation**: Not Evaluated - **Soundtrack**: LCD Soundsystem (Dance-Punk & Electroclash) - [Red King Crab](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/red-king-crab/) (*Paralithodes camtschaticus*) - **Superpower**: Young crabs travel in pods of tens of thousands - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Not Evaluated - **Soundtrack**: Pelican (Blackgaze & Atmospheric Post-Metal) - [Red Lionfish](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/red-lionfish/) (*Pterois volitans*) - **Superpower**: The persistent-predation strategy: it chased a faster fish at about half its speed and caught it in 61% of lab trials. - **Danger**: Medium | **Conservation**: Least Concern - **Soundtrack**: Electrelane (Art Punk & Experimental Post-Punk) - [Red-Eared Slider](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/red-eared-slider/) (*Trachemys scripta elegans*) - **Superpower**: Nest temperature decides its sex. - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Least Concern - **Soundtrack**: Glass Animals (2020s Pop & Modern Alt) - [Seven-Spot Ladybird](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/seven-spot-ladybird/) (*Coccinella septempunctata*) - **Superpower**: Bleeds toxic alkaloids from its leg joints - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Not Evaluated - **Soundtrack**: The White Stripes (Garage Blues & Swamp Rock) - [Signal Crayfish](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/signal-crayfish/) (*Pacifastacus leniusculus*) - **Superpower**: Highly resistant to the crayfish plague - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Least Concern - **Soundtrack**: Ladytron (Dance-Punk & Electroclash) - [Spotted Lanternfly](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/spotted-lanternfly/) (*Lycorma delicatula*) - **Superpower**: Stores a defensive chemical from tree of heaven, and birds in a study avoided lanternflies collected from it - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Not Evaluated - **Soundtrack**: Kylie Minogue (2000s Pop & R&B Anthem) - [Wild Boar](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/wild-boar/) (*Sus scrofa*) - **Superpower**: A long, flattened snout that gives it a heightened sense of smell - **Danger**: Deadly | **Conservation**: Least Concern - **Soundtrack**: Maurice Ravel (Neo-Classical & Baroque Chamber) - [Yellow Fever Mosquito](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/yellow-fever-mosquito/) (*Aedes aegypti*) - **Superpower**: Detects the left-handed or right-handed form of a chemical in mammal odour - **Danger**: Deadly | **Conservation**: Not Evaluated - **Soundtrack**: Johann Sebastian Bach (Neo-Classical & Baroque Chamber) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://animaltracks.wiki/tags/invasive/#collection", "name": "#Invasive Animals", "description": "Proliferating rapidly outside native ranges, outcompeting endemic wildlife through adaptability and fast breeding. 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