--- title: "Nocturnal Animals (Page 2 of 3) | AnimalTracks.wiki" description: "Conducting foraging and hunting under darkness to avoid daytime heat and visual predators." image: "https://animaltracks.wiki/icon-512.png" canonical: "https://animaltracks.wiki/tags/nocturnal/page/2/" --- # Nocturnal Animals (Page 2 of 3) > Conducting foraging and hunting under darkness to avoid daytime heat and visual predators. **71 species in this collection.** - [Common Raccoon](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/raccoon/) (*Procyon lotor*) - **Superpower**: A cat-sized brain with near-primate neuron density, paired with forepaws that have a highly developed sense of touch - **Musical Match**: Gorillaz (Trip-Hop & Velvet Downtempo) - [Common Vampire Bat](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/vampire-bat/) (*Desmodus rotundus*) - **Superpower**: Anticoagulant saliva, infrared-sensing pits on its face, and a bounding run on land powered by its wings - **Musical Match**: Chromatics (80s Retrowave & Synthwave) - [Death's-Head Hawkmoth](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/deaths-head-hawkmoth/) (*Acherontia atropos*) - **Superpower**: Squeaks when alarmed, and can get into sealed honeycombs; its short proboscis ends in a sharp point - **Musical Match**: Venetian Snares (Breakcore & Chaotic Drill) - [Deathstalker Scorpion](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/deathstalker-scorpion/) (*Leiurus quinquestriatus*) - **Superpower**: A venom peptide, chlorotoxin, that binds brain tumor cells and, built into the dye tozuleristide, made gliomas glow in a trial published in 2019 - **Musical Match**: Gesaffelstein (French Dark Electro & EBM) - [Egyptian Giant Solpugid](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/egyptian-giant-solpugid/) (*Galeodes arabs*) - **Superpower**: Camel spider jaws reach up to one-third of body length - **Musical Match**: Megadeth (Thrash Metal & Speed Metal) - [Emperor Scorpion](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/emperor-scorpion/) (*Pandinus imperator*) - **Superpower**: Huge, powerful pincers generally used to tear prey apart instead of stinging it, plus a cuticle that fluoresces blue-green under ultraviolet light. - **Musical Match**: The Crystal Method (Big Beat & 90s Acid Techno) - [European Badger](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/european-badger/) (*Meles meles*) - **Superpower**: Sharp claws ideal for digging setts, underground homes the badger cleans by dragging old bedding out under its chin. - **Musical Match**: The Fall (Art Punk & Experimental Post-Punk) - [European Hare](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/european-hare/) (*Lepus europaeus*) - **Superpower**: Leverets are born furred and well developed, then spread over a moderately wide area to avoid predation on the whole litter - **Musical Match**: Kate Bush (Art Pop & Baroque Pop) - [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. - **Musical Match**: Tiny Moving Parts (Math Rock & Midwest Emo) - [European Hornet](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/european-hornet/) (*Vespa crabro*) - **Superpower**: Makes its own body heat, arriving home with a thorax averaging 30 to 40 °C - **Musical Match**: Chromatics (80s Retrowave & Synthwave) - [European Polecat](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/european-polecat/) (*Mustela putorius*) - **Superpower**: A key-lock jaw hinge whose grip is tenacious enough that it can be lifted and suspended by whatever it holds in its teeth, backed by a strong-smelling secretion from its anal glands when threatened. - **Musical Match**: Green Day (Pop-Punk & 2000s Alt-Rock) - [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. - **Musical Match**: Erykah Badu (Classic Funk, Soul & Disco) - [Fire Salamander](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/fire-salamander/) (*Salamandra salamandra*) - **Superpower**: Glands behind the eyes and down the body that secrete toxic alkaloids, which it can actively spray at an attacker. - **Musical Match**: Lake Malice (Electronic Metalcore & Nu-Metal) - [Garden Snail](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/garden-snail/) (*Cornu aspersum*) - **Superpower**: Seals itself off with a parchment-like membrane in hot, dry weather - **Musical Match**: Hania Rani (Neo-Classical & Baroque Chamber) - [Geography Cone Snail](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/geography-cone-snail/) (*Conus geographus*) - **Superpower**: Venom insulin that appears to be part of the "nirvana cabal," a toxin mix released into the water to disorient schools of small fish, which the snail then engulfs and harpoons with a hollow radular tooth. - **Musical Match**: Carpenter Brut (French Dark Electro & EBM) - [Ghost Bat](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/ghost-bat/) (*Macroderma gigas*) - **Superpower**: Highly sensitive low-frequency hearing, and the sharpest estimated vision of six echolocating bats compared in one study - **Musical Match**: Spiritbox (Modern Metalcore & Djent) - [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. - **Musical Match**: Tinariwen (Saharan Desert Rock & Tuareg Shred) - [Greater Jerboa](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/greater-jerboa/) (*Jaculus orientalis*) - **Superpower**: Bipedal leaping on hind legs about four times the length of its forelimbs; leaps have been measured at up to 3 meters long - **Musical Match**: The Interrupters (Ska-Punk & 2-Tone) - [House Centipede](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/house-centipede/) (*Scutigera coleoptrata*) - **Superpower**: Rear legs that cross above and outside the legs in front of them, which prevents entanglement - **Musical Match**: Tune-Yards (Art Punk & Experimental Post-Punk) - [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) - [Kinkajou](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/kinkajou/) (*Potos flavus*) - **Superpower**: Rotates 180 degrees between its pelvis and head - **Musical Match**: Hiatus Kaiyote (Jazz-Funk, Soul & Lounge Fusion) - [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) - [Luna Moth](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/luna-moth/) (*Actias luna*) - **Superpower**: Spinning hindwing tails that gave tailed moths a survival advantage of about 47% over tailless ones against big brown bats - **Musical Match**: Augustus Pablo (Roots Reggae & Heavy Dub) - [Maned Wolf](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/maned-wolf/) (*Chrysocyon brachyurus*) - **Superpower**: Long legs to see over tall grass and large rotating ears to listen for prey in it, plus territory-marking urine that smells like a skunk to many people. - **Musical Match**: Hole (90s Grunge & Alt-Rock) - Previous Page: https://animaltracks.wiki/tags/nocturnal/ - Next Page: https://animaltracks.wiki/tags/nocturnal/page/3/