--- title: "#Scavenger Animals & Superpower Traits (15 Species) | AnimalTracks.wiki" description: "Feeding on animal carcasses, equipped with acidic digestive tracts that destroy deadly pathogens. Explore all 15 species with this trait in the AnimalTracks wildlife encyclopedia." image: "https://animaltracks.wiki/icon-512.png" --- # #Scavenger Animals & Evolutionary Adaptations > Feeding on animal carcasses, equipped with acidic digestive tracts that destroy deadly pathogens. - **Trait Category**: Behavior & Tactics - **Species Count**: 15 Curated Creatures - **Browse Web**: [View interactive trait gallery](https://animaltracks.wiki/tags/scavenger/) ## Species With #Scavenger - [American Lobster](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/american-lobster/) (*Homarus americanus*) - **Superpower**: Two different claws, a crusher for pulverizing shells and a ripper for tearing soft flesh. - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Least Concern - **Soundtrack**: AC/DC (Classic Hard Rock & Southern Blues) - [Andean Condor](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/andean-condor/) (*Vultur gryphus*) - **Superpower**: Flapped for only 1% of flight time in a tracking study - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Vulnerable - **Soundtrack**: Stars of the Lid (Glacial Ambient & Drone Soundscapes) - [Atlantic Hagfish](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/atlantic-hagfish/) (*Myxine glutinosa*) - **Superpower**: Defensive slime that unravels into gill-clogging protein thread in a fraction of a second - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Least Concern - **Soundtrack**: Einstürzende Neubauten (Industrial Noise & Avant-Garde Experimental) - [Bearded Vulture](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/bearded-vulture/) (*Gypaetus barbatus*) - **Superpower**: A stomach whose pH could be below 1, and dropping bones from the sky to break them open for the marrow inside - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Near Threatened - **Soundtrack**: Nightwish (Symphonic Metal & Gothic Power) - [Coconut Crab](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/coconut-crab/) (*Birgus latro*) - **Superpower**: An estimated 3,300-newton claw pinch for a 4-kilogram crab, calculated from measurements on wild animals, enough to beat the bite force of most living land predators, alligators excepted. - **Danger**: Medium | **Conservation**: Vulnerable - **Soundtrack**: Fela Kuti (Afrobeat) - [Common Hermit Crab](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/common-hermit-crab/) (*Pagurus bernhardus*) - **Superpower**: Rapping on a rival's shell to try to evict the owner and take its home - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Not Evaluated - **Soundtrack**: The Winstons (Classic Funk, Soul & Disco) - [European Herring Gull](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/european-herring-gull/) (*Larus argentatus*) - **Superpower**: Paddles its feet on the ground to flush worms to the surface - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Least Concern - **Soundtrack**: Eurythmics (80s Pop & Dance Anthem) - [Giant Isopod](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/giant-isopod/) (*Bathynomus giganteus*) - **Superpower**: A big body that can hold large fat reserves, which may help it fast when food is scarce and sporadic. - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Not Evaluated - **Soundtrack**: Mortiis (Dungeon Synth & Dark Fantasy) - [Greenland Shark](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/greenland-shark/) (*Somniosus microcephalus*) - **Superpower**: It grows less than a centimeter a year, females aren't sexually mature until at least 156 years old, give or take 22, and its lifespan runs to at least 272 years, the longest of any known vertebrate. - **Danger**: Medium | **Conservation**: Vulnerable - **Soundtrack**: Kali Malone (Glacial Ambient & Drone Soundscapes) - [Housefly](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/housefly/) (*Musca domestica*) - **Superpower**: Tastes food with its feet and coats hard food in saliva and stomach fluid to break it down - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Not Evaluated - **Soundtrack**: The Breeders (90s Grunge & Heavy Alt-Rock) - [Japanese Spider Crab](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/japanese-spider-crab/) (*Macrocheira kaempferi*) - **Superpower**: Longest Legspan of Any Living Arthropod - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Not Evaluated - **Soundtrack**: Justice (Industrial Rock & Cyberpunk) - [Red-Bellied Piranha](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/red-bellied-piranha/) (*Pygocentrus nattereri*) - **Superpower**: Triangular, razor-sharp interlocking teeth that bite down with great force and shearing ability - **Danger**: Medium | **Conservation**: Least Concern - **Soundtrack**: Battles (Math Rock & Instrumental Virtuoso) - [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. - **Danger**: Deadly | **Conservation**: Least Concern - **Soundtrack**: Death Grips (Industrial Hip-Hop & Experimental Noise) - [Striped Hyena](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/striped-hyena/) (*Hyaena hyaena*) - **Superpower**: Jaws that crush and swallow bones, horns and hooves, and a digestive system adapted to maximize the nutrition it gets from its food; only the horns, hooves and hair come back up. - **Danger**: Medium | **Conservation**: Near Threatened - **Soundtrack**: Boy Harsher (Gothic Rock & Post-Punk) - [Turkey Vulture](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/turkey-vulture/) (*Cathartes aura*) - **Superpower**: Finds carrion by smell, even beneath forest canopy - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Least Concern - **Soundtrack**: Modest Mouse (Indie Rock & Jangle Pop) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://animaltracks.wiki/tags/scavenger/#collection", "name": "#Scavenger Animals", "description": "Feeding on animal carcasses, equipped with acidic digestive tracts that destroy deadly pathogens. 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