--- title: "Rainforest Animals (Page 2 of 3) | AnimalTracks.wiki" description: "Surviving intense tropical humidity, dense multi-tiered canopies, and fierce biological competition in jungle biomes." image: "https://animaltracks.wiki/icon-512.png" canonical: "https://animaltracks.wiki/tags/rainforest/page/2/" --- # Rainforest Animals (Page 2 of 3) > Surviving intense tropical humidity, dense multi-tiered canopies, and fierce biological competition in jungle biomes. **67 species in this collection.** - [Goliath Birdeater](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/goliath-birdeater/) (*Theraphosa blondi*) - **Superpower**: An 11-inch leg span and stinging hairs it can release to irritate predators - **Musical Match**: A Tribe Called Quest (90s East Coast Hip-Hop & Boom Bap) - [Goliath Frog](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/goliath-frog/) (*Conraua goliath*) - **Superpower**: Males build rock and gravel nests and wrestle rivals - **Musical Match**: Earthless (Heavy Psych & Desert Rock) - [Green Anaconda](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/green-anaconda/) (*Eunectes murinus*) - **Superpower**: A stretchy, ligament-hinged jaw that swallows prey whole; death comes from suffocating coils, or just as often, from drowning near water. - **Musical Match**: Sepultura (Thrash Metal & Speed Metal) - [Green Iguana](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/green-iguana/) (*Iguana iguana*) - **Superpower**: Sheds its tail to escape and dives from overhanging branches into water - **Musical Match**: The Police (80s Pop & Dance Anthem) - [Grey Parrot](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/grey-parrot/) (*Psittacus erithacus*) - **Superpower**: One bird, Griffin, outperformed 5-year-olds on a cup-logic test - **Musical Match**: Bobby McFerrin (Jazz-Funk, Soul & Lounge Fusion) - [Harlequin Poison Frog](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/harlequin-poison-frog/) (*Oophaga histrionica*) - **Superpower**: Skin toxins collected from its prey, able to repel or even kill a small predator - **Musical Match**: Systema Solar (Latin Psychedelic Cumbia & Tropicalia) - [Harpy Eagle](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/harpy-eagle/) (*Harpia harpyja*) - **Superpower**: Rear talons about five inches long, larger than a grizzly bear's claws, that the San Diego Zoo says can exert several hundred pounds of pressure, crushing bones and killing prey instantly. - **Musical Match**: Soundgarden (90s Grunge & Heavy Alt-Rock) - [Hercules Beetle](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/hercules-beetle/) (*Dynastes hercules*) - **Superpower**: Horns that clamp a rival like pliers, then lift and slam him down, mandibles geared to move in complete synchrony, and elytra that turn from khaki-green to black once humidity rises above 80 percent. - **Musical Match**: Sleep (Sludge Metal & Abyssal Doom) - [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) - [Human Botfly](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/human-botfly/) (*Dermatobia hominis*) - **Superpower**: Glues its eggs to a blood-feeding carrier, usually a mosquito or a tick, which carries them to a warm-blooded host - **Musical Match**: Green Day (Pop-Punk & 2000s Alt-Rock) - [Jaguar](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/jaguar/) (*Panthera onca*) - **Superpower**: A skull-piercing bite that kills instantly, from jaws that get through thick reptile skin and turtle shells. - **Musical Match**: Bad Bunny (Latin Trap & Heavy 808s) - [Jaguarundi](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/jaguarundi/) (*Herpailurus yagouaroundi*) - **Superpower**: A bigger vocal repertoire than any other cat sharing its range, and a daytime schedule out of step with the nocturnal margay - **Musical Match**: Faith No More (Nu-Metal & 90s Alt-Metal) - [King Cobra](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/king-cobra/) (*Ophiophagus hannah*) - **Superpower**: Can deliver more than a gram of neurotoxic venom, measured dry, in a single bite. - **Musical Match**: A Tribe Called Quest (90s East Coast Hip-Hop & Boom Bap) - [King of Saxony Bird-of-Paradise](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/king-of-saxony-bird-of-paradise/) (*Pteridophora alberti*) - **Superpower**: A male's two head plumes, each about 50 centimeters long, controlled by muscles housed in small skull depressions - **Musical Match**: Lady Gaga (2010s Pop & Electropop) - [Lar Gibbon](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/lar-gibbon/) (*Hylobates lar*) - **Superpower**: Mated pairs sing duets that carry up to a kilometre - **Musical Match**: Max Richter (Neo-Classical & Baroque Chamber) - [Lowland Streaked Tenrec](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/lowland-streaked-tenrec/) (*Hemicentetes semispinosus*) - **Superpower**: A stridulation organ of 7 to 16 specialized quills on its back that make high-frequency sound when rubbed together. - **Musical Match**: Battles (Math Rock & Midwest Emo) - [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) - [Mandrill](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/mandrill/) (*Mandrillus sphinx*) - **Superpower**: Skin colored blue by light-scattering collagen and red by blood, both most saturated in the top-ranked males. - **Musical Match**: David Bowie (70s Pop & Glam Disco) - [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) - [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) - [Ocelot](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/ocelot/) (*Leopardus pardalis*) - **Superpower**: Eyes with a layer that reflects light, so an ocelot can walk around at night as easily as a person walks around by day. - **Musical Match**: Chicha Libre (Latin Psychedelic Cumbia & Flamenco) - [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) - [Orchid Mantis](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/orchid-mantis/) (*Hymenopus coronatus*) - **Superpower**: Color that bees cannot tell apart from real flowers, drawing in wild pollinators at an even higher rate than flowers do. - **Musical Match**: Cocteau Twins (Dream Pop & Shoegaze) - [Paradise Flying Snake](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/paradise-flying-snake/) (*Chrysopelea paradisi*) - **Superpower**: Splays its ribs and flattens its body into a triangular cross-section that acts as the lifting surface in place of wings - **Musical Match**: Sub Focus (Drum & Bass & Liquid Jungle) - Previous Page: https://animaltracks.wiki/tags/rainforest/ - 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