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# Venomous Animals (Page 2 of 2)

> Engineered biochemical cocktails delivered through fangs, stingers, spurs, or harpoons to disable nervous systems or dissolve tissue.

**43 species in this collection.**

- [Gila Monster](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/gila-monster/) (*Heloderma suspectum*)
  - **Superpower**: Beaded osteoderm armor and venom containing exendin-4, the peptide behind the diabetes drug exenatide (Byetta)
  - **Musical Match**: All Them Witches (Stoner Rock & Desert Groove)
- [Hispaniolan Solenodon](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/hispaniolan-solenodon/) (*Solenodon paradoxus*)
  - **Superpower**: Likely the largest living venomous land mammal, delivering venom through a grooved second lower incisor; lab tests suggest it lowers blood pressure.
  - **Musical Match**: Wire (Art Punk & Experimental Post-Punk)
- [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)
- [Inland Taipan](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/inland-taipan/) (*Oxyuranus microlepidotus*)
  - **Superpower**: Paradoxin, a presynaptic neurotoxin that stops nerve endings releasing the signal that makes muscles contract. The whole venom is rated the most toxic of any snake's in LD50 tests on mice.
  - **Musical Match**: Spiritbox (Modern Metalcore & Djent)
- [Irukandji Jellyfish](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/irukandji-jellyfish/) (*Carukia barnesi*)
  - **Superpower**: Twitches its tentacles like fishing lures to draw in larval fish
  - **Musical Match**: Jon Hopkins (IDM & Glitch Ambient Synthesis)
- [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)
- [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)
- [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
  - **Musical Match**: LCD Soundsystem (Dance-Punk & Electroclash)
- [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.
  - **Musical Match**: Electrelane (Art Punk & Experimental Post-Punk)
- [Russell's Viper](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/russells-viper/) (*Daboia russelii*)
  - **Superpower**: Venom that differs significantly between five Indian regions, in composition and potency
  - **Musical Match**: Jinjer (Modern Metalcore & Djent)
- [South American Bushmaster](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/south-american-bushmaster/) (*Lachesis muta*)
  - **Superpower**: Facial heat-sensing pits that let it aim a strike at a warm body within 50 centimeters with no other senses needed, backed by venom produced in quantities of up to 400 milligrams.
  - **Musical Match**: ROSALÍA (Latin Trap & Heavy 808s)
- [Southern Black Widow](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/southern-black-widow/) (*Latrodectus mactans*)
  - **Superpower**: Venom that acts on the motor endplate to allow a massive release of noradrenaline and acetylcholine, causing excessive stimulation and fatigue of the muscle.
  - **Musical Match**: Intervals (Math Rock & Instrumental Virtuoso)
- [Southern Stingray](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/southern-stingray/) (*Hypanus americanus*)
  - **Superpower**: Thousands of electrical sensors on its underside detect the electric field of prey buried in the sand
  - **Musical Match**: Suzanne Ciani (Krautrock & Electronic Pioneers)
- [Spitting Spider](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/spitting-spider/) (*Scytodes thoracica*)
  - **Superpower**: Fires a zigzag spray of silk, glue and venom at up to 28.8 meters a second, then bites once the glue is dry
  - **Musical Match**: Igorrr (Breakcore & Chaotic Drill)
- [Sunda Slow Loris](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/sunda-slow-loris/) (*Nycticebus coucang*)
  - **Superpower**: Brachial gland chemical weaponization and specialized toothcomb venom delivery
  - **Musical Match**: Sneaker Pimps (Trip-Hop & Eerie Downtempo)
- [Sydney Funnel-Web Spider](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/sydney-funnel-web-spider/) (*Atrax robustus*)
  - **Superpower**: Robustoxin (delta-atracotoxin-Ar1), a 42-amino-acid peptide in male venom that stops some sodium channels in nerve cells from switching off properly. Its toxin family likely evolved to deter vertebrate predators such as bandicoots, birds and lizards, but robustoxin severely affects the nervous systems of humans and monkeys.
  - **Musical Match**: Joan Jett & the Blackhearts (Classic Hard Rock & Southern Blues)
- [Timber Rattlesnake](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/timber-rattlesnake/) (*Crotalus horridus*)
  - **Superpower**: Heat-sensing pits between nostril and eye that detect very slight changes in temperature
  - **Musical Match**: Buena Vista Social Club (Cuban Son & Trova)
- [Western Diamondback Rattlesnake](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/western-diamondback-rattlesnake/) (*Crotalus atrox*)
  - **Superpower**: A heat-sensing pit on each side of its head
  - **Musical Match**: Metallica (Thrash Metal & Speed Metal)
- [Western Honeybee](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/honeybee/) (*Apis mellifera*)
  - **Superpower**: Waggle-dance directions read from the sun and gravity, a barbed sting that costs its owner her life, and a nest built from hexagonal wax cells.
  - **Musical Match**: Wizkid (Afrobeats & Modern Amapiano)

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