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 ...

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 ...

Lions are famous for a roar that can rattle windows and carry across the savanna, yet researchers now say the big cats have been hiding a vocal trick no one had clearly documented before. By listening ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists have discovered a new type of lion roar — the intermediate roar — which is shorter and lower-pitched than the animal's ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Learn how scientists uncovered a second, overlooked lion roar — and why the finding could reshape efforts to track and protect the species. For decades, a lion’s roar was thought to be a single, ...

The roar of an African lion is one of the most iconic sounds of the animal kingdom. However, my new research suggests it should actually be separated into two distinct vocalisations: the full-throated ...

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, ...

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 ...

Roaring over long distances is a key behavior of lions. They communicate within prides as well as with other animals using distinct sequences of moans and grunts. Scientists from the GAIA Initiative ...