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# Savanna Animals (Page 2 of 2)

> Adapted to expansive tropical grasslands, enduring prolonged dry seasons and following migrating herbivore herds.

**42 species in this collection.**

- [Giraffe](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/giraffe/) (*Giraffa camelopardalis*)
  - **Superpower**: Arterial blood pressure near the heart roughly double a human's, to fight gravity. A mechanical model suggests that a rise in the pressure pushing blood through the brain as the head swings back up may help stop it fainting.
  - **Musical Match**: Ebo Taylor (Afrobeat)
- [Gouldian Finch](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/gouldian-finch/) (*Chloebia gouldiae*)
  - **Superpower**: A small stretch of DNA near the Follistatin gene that sets red or black head color, plus chick beak nodules that reflect light to help parents feed them in the dark
  - **Musical Match**: Elton John (70s Pop & Glam Disco)
- [Hamadryas Baboon](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/hamadryas-baboon/) (*Papio hamadryas*)
  - **Superpower**: A four-level society, from one-male harem units up through clans and bands to troops of several hundred that share one sleeping cliff
  - **Musical Match**: MONO (Post-Rock & Cinematic Orchestral)
- [Harris's Hawk](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/harris-hawk/) (*Parabuteo unicinctus*)
  - **Superpower**: Cooperative pack-hunting tactics and the highest colour-vision resolution measured in any animal to date
  - **Musical Match**: Television (Art Punk & Experimental Post-Punk)
- [Helmeted Guineafowl](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/helmeted-guineafowl/) (*Numida meleagris*)
  - **Superpower**: A very loud alarm call that warns other birds and surrounding fauna
  - **Musical Match**: Jessie Ware (Trip-Hop & Velvet Downtempo)
- [Impala](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/impala/) (*Aepyceros melampus*)
  - **Superpower**: Leaps that can span over 9 metres, often over bushes and even other impala.
  - **Musical Match**: Roni Size & Reprazent (Drum & Bass / Precision Jungle)
- [Komodo Dragon](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/komodo-dragon/) (*Varanus komodoensis*)
  - **Superpower**: Iron-reinforced serrated cutting teeth, venomous shock-inducing glands, and chainmail osteoderm armor
  - **Musical Match**: Metallica (Thrash Metal & Speed Metal)
- [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)
- [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.
  - **Musical Match**: Bob Marley & The Wailers (Roots Reggae & Heavy Dub)
- [Mound-Building Termite](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/mound-building-termite/) (*Macrotermes bellicosus*)
  - **Superpower**: Queens and kings that can live as long as 20 years in the lab, in a colony that grows its own fungus
  - **Musical Match**: Terry Riley (Krautrock & Electronic Pioneers)
- [Plains Zebra](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/plains-zebra/) (*Equus quagga*)
  - **Superpower**: Stripes that a 2014 study linked to biting flies, in a pattern unique enough to work as an ID card for every zebra in the herd.
  - **Musical Match**: Black Coffee (Afrobeats & Modern Amapiano)
- [Red Kangaroo](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/red-kangaroo/) (*Osphranter rufus*)
  - **Superpower**: Powerful hind legs and a balancing tail carry it at up to 64 km/h, and its energy use stays nearly the same as it hops faster on level ground.
  - **Musical Match**: AC/DC (Classic Hard Rock & Southern Blues)
- [Secretarybird](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/secretarybird/) (*Sagittarius serpentarius*)
  - **Superpower**: Stomping kicks: one captive male's peak force averaged five times his body weight, his foot on the snake for about 15 milliseconds a strike.
  - **Musical Match**: Rodrigo y Gabriela (Latin Psychedelic Cumbia & Flamenco)
- [Sociable Weaver](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/sociable-weaver/) (*Philetairus socius*)
  - **Superpower**: Collective architecture: colonies build the world's largest bird nest, an insulated haystack that can weigh several tons and shelter hundreds of birds
  - **Musical Match**: Terry Riley (Neo-Classical & Baroque Chamber)
- [Spotted Hyena](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/spotted-hyena/) (*Crocuta crocuta*)
  - **Superpower**: Jaws that crush bone with ease, in a skull that helps spread the stress of a bite.
  - **Musical Match**: Death Grips (Industrial Hip-Hop & Experimental Noise)
- [Toco Toucan](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/toco-toucan/) (*Ramphastos toco*)
  - **Superpower**: A bill laced with blood vessels that works as a heat radiator, carrying away an average of 60 percent of the bird's non-evaporative heat loss above 28°C.
  - **Musical Match**: Sérgio Mendes (Brazilian Bossa Nova & Tropicalia Samba)
- [Volta Electric Eel](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/electric-eel/) (*Electrophorus voltai*)
  - **Superpower**: Bioelectrogenesis discharging up to 860 volts of direct electrical current
  - **Musical Match**: Daft Punk (Classic Funk, Soul & Disco)
- [White Rhinoceros](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/white-rhinoceros/) (*Ceratotherium simum*)
  - **Superpower**: A dermis 18 millimeters thick on average, and a keratin front horn that can grow longer than 1.5 meters (5 feet).
  - **Musical Match**: Red Fang (Stoner Rock & Desert Groove)

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