How do you tell large dangerous animals apart while staying safe? Well, one way for lions has been to identify them through their roar. For a long time it was believed that lions only had one kind of ...

Lions who wander the expanse of the savannah need to keep in communication with each other when the pride is not together. This ability to stay in constant communication is what both makes a pride ...

Did you know that sound can cause physical pain? It’s true — humans typically start to feel pain at around 110 decibels. When standing just a few feet away, a lion’s roar reaches about 114 decibels, ...

Scientists have discovered a new type of lion roar — the intermediate roar — which is shorter and lower-pitched than the animal's iconic, full-throated roar. The researchers found that these ...

The thunderous roar of the MGM lion that has opened Hollywood films for nearly a century has conditioned us to hear the big cat’s call as a blunt declaration: a booming blast announcing power and ...

DETROW: Or some version of that sound. This particular roar comes courtesy of a lion named Jeronimo (ph). Well, what if I told you that this sound... (SOUNDBITE OF LION ROARING) DETROW: ...Was also a ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising second type of lion roar, using AI to decode vocal signatures with remarkable precision. This breakthrough sheds new light on how lions communicate and offers a ...

African lions have thunderous roars. The explosive sound rattles your eardrums when it booms in a nature documentary. But it turns out that the powerful roar we attribute to the big cats isn’t the ...

Jonathan Growcott was funded via a doctoral training grant awarded as part of the UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training in Environmental Intelligence (UKRI grant number EP/S022074/1). The roar of an ...

What are Africa’s big cats saying? Discover the meaning behind their roars, saws and chirps. Lions roar, leopards saw, and cheetahs chirp, but what are they really saying? "Big Cats Unleashed" decodes ...

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Researchers used artificial intelligence to analyze more than 3,000 recordings of African lions and found that the animals have an "intermediate" roar as well as a "full-throated" roar. When you ...