--- title: "Wetlands Animals (Page 2 of 2) | AnimalTracks.wiki" description: "Thriving in saturated marshes, swamps, and floodplains with splayed feet and specialized water-resistant plumage." image: "https://animaltracks.wiki/icon-512.png" canonical: "https://animaltracks.wiki/tags/wetlands/page/2/" --- # Wetlands Animals (Page 2 of 2) > Thriving in saturated marshes, swamps, and floodplains with splayed feet and specialized water-resistant plumage. **47 species in this collection.** - [Greater Flamingo](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/greater-flamingo/) (*Phoenicopterus roseus*) - **Superpower**: A filter-feeding bill that works with the head upside down, in water with a pH of up to 11 - **Musical Match**: Timecop1983 (80s Retrowave & Synthwave) - [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) - [Grey Heron](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/grey-heron/) (*Ardea cinerea*) - **Superpower**: Typically waits for prey to come within striking range, then generally swallows it whole - **Musical Match**: Mitski (Indie Rock & Jangle Pop) - [Hippopotamus](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/hippopotamus/) (*Hippopotamus amphibius*) - **Superpower**: A bull's canine tusks keep growing for life and can reach 50 cm, kept sharp by grinding, inside a jaw that gapes 150 degrees, more than three times a human's 45. - **Musical Match**: Skepta (Heavy UK Grime & Sub-Bass) - [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) - [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) - [Mallard](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/mallard/) (*Anas platyrhynchos*) - **Superpower**: Hens lay larger eggs after mating with a preferred male - **Musical Match**: *NSYNC (2000s Pop & R&B Anthem) - [Moose](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/moose/) (*Alces alces*) - **Superpower**: Legs that can sometimes move through deep snow more easily than a wolf's, plus a top speed of up to 35 mph. - **Musical Match**: Kyuss (Stoner Rock & Desert Groove) - [Muskrat](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/muskrat/) (*Ondatra zibethicus*) - **Superpower**: Dense fur that traps air for insulation and buoyancy - **Musical Match**: Róisín Murphy (Classic Funk, Soul & Disco) - [Mute Swan](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/mute-swan/) (*Cygnus olor*) - **Superpower**: Raises its wings and twirls in a busking display, part of both rival standoffs and the mating ritual - **Musical Match**: Miki Matsubara (Japanese City Pop & Shibuya-kei) - [North American Beaver](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/north-american-beaver/) (*Castor canadensis*) - **Superpower**: Self-sharpening, iron-strengthened incisors that keep growing throughout its life and can cut through a finger-thick sapling in one bite. - **Musical Match**: Béla Fleck (Pastoral Folk & Progressive Bluegrass) - [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) - [Proboscis Monkey](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/proboscis-monkey/) (*Nasalis larvatus*) - **Superpower**: An oversized nose that amplifies a male's calls, making them louder than a female's and useful for warning the group of danger. - **Musical Match**: Les Baxter (Jazz-Funk, Soul & Lounge Fusion) - [Pygmy Hippopotamus](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/pygmy-hippo/) (*Choeropsis liberiensis*) - **Superpower**: A glossy "blood sweat" from glands in its skin that protects its thin, sensitive skin from the sun, with more of it seen during hard exertion. - **Musical Match**: Salif Keita (African Rumba & Mande Pop) - [Quokka](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/quokka/) (*Setonix brachyurus*) - **Superpower**: Three spectrally distinct cone types for colour vision that may help it spot predators. - **Musical Match**: Vampire Weekend (Indie Rock & Jangle Pop) - [Reticulated Python](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/reticulated-python/) (*Malayopython reticulatus*) - **Superpower**: Extreme length, up to 33 feet (10 meters), plus heat-sensing pit organs that detect prey without necessarily seeing it. - **Musical Match**: Russian Circles (Sludge Metal & Abyssal Doom) - [Roseate Spoonbill](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/roseate-spoonbill/) (*Platalea ajaja*) - **Superpower**: Tactolocation: a slightly open bill, swung from side to side, that snaps shut when it contacts prey - **Musical Match**: Whitney Houston (80s Pop & Dance Anthem) - [Saltwater Crocodile](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/saltwater-crocodile/) (*Crocodylus porosus*) - **Superpower**: A bite that hit 3,689 pounds in one individual, the highest measured in any animal, and dermal pressure receptors that detect the ripples prey leave on the water's surface. - **Musical Match**: Jinjer (Modern Metalcore & Djent) - [Sandhill Crane](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/sandhill-crane/) (*Antigone canadensis*) - **Superpower**: Mated pairs call in unison, a loud rattling trumpet duet - **Musical Match**: Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell (Classic Funk, Soul & Disco) - [Shoebill Stork](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/shoebill-stork/) (*Balaeniceps rex*) - **Superpower**: Massive clog-shaped bill with sharp edges and a sharp hook, used to grab large prey such as lungfish in a lunging strike called "collapsing." - **Musical Match**: Nine Inch Nails (Industrial Rock & Cyberpunk) - [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) - [Water Buffalo](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/water-buffalo/) (*Bubalus bubalis*) - **Superpower**: Wallows in mud to cool off, with sweat glands that are poorly spread - **Musical Match**: Crowbar (Sludge Metal & Abyssal Doom) - [Western Grebe](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/western-grebe/) (*Aechmophorus occidentalis*) - **Superpower**: A neck structure, found among grebes only in it and Clark's grebe, for rapid spear-like thrusting of the bill - **Musical Match**: Bee Gees (70s Pop & Glam Disco) - Previous Page: https://animaltracks.wiki/tags/wetlands/ - Next Page: None