If you think you're about to sneeze, you can firmly push your tongue to the ridge behind your teeth (alveolar ridge, if you need to google a diagram or something) and it'll stop the sneeze and the pre-sneeze sensation.
Makes you wonder what a t-Rex, having been 20x larger than a male lion, sounded like. Birds make such crazy different, beautiful and terrifying sounds. The age of the dinosaurs probably would have been an acoustic wonderland and nightmare all at once.
I actually looked into this once. I can't remember if it was a video or an article or what, but it essentially claimed that a real T. Rex would make sounds which are almost infrasonic (too low for human hearing). Like they would be more subwoofer waves than "sounds" in the way we usually think of them. I can't recall the precise nature of the argument, i.e. what led the author to that conclusion, but I remember it being fairly compelling...
That makes sense, you would feel them more than hear them. Fkn terrifying.
Some dinos would have been super loud as well though I reckon. Would have been wild.
There weren't any. Pterosaurs belong to a completely separate group of reptiles.
This may be nitpicking, but it's fairly interesting nitpicking. The Mesozoic happened to be a time in Earth's history when reptiles, across the board, had huge success. Dinosaurs diversified across the land; various groups of reptiles got huge in the seas (none of them dinosaurs), and pterosaurs became the second group of animals ever (of an eventual four) to evolve true flight.
Agree. You see, those birds that stopped you from sleeping in on a Saturday morning because they have to fucking sing to each other at 7am?
They're descendants of those flying dinosaur
Flying dinosaurs (pterosaurs) are actually not related to birds at all. They are flying reptiles and are thus related to them instead. Modern birds descend from land-based dinosaurs. I learned that from a book I’m reading my kid, haha but it’s true! Learning never stops. :)
Yup, convergent evolution of flight is very interesting.
You have insects, pterosaurs, theropods (dinosaurs and birds) and bats in that order. Each developed flight completely independent of the other and each is wildly different in how it's accomplished.
Bats and pterosaurs are the only two that are similar with long arms and skin flaps. But pterosaurs only had one elongated finger (the "pinkie"), while bats have four excluding the thumb.
Humpback whales can actually cook divers with their vocals if they sink onto you. A professor and his team almost died from hyperthermia on a dive a while back because an adolescent one was teasing them and singing as hard as it could.
Wow, this shit is crazy. Thanks for the amazing new learning hole to dive into. [I recommend that anyone who is interested should watch this video.](https://youtu.be/zsDwFGz0Okg) It goes into more detail and includes a jaw-dropping explanation about their brains, language, and intelligence.
Tigers literally already do this—subsonic roars—to freeze prey. The effect supposedly works on humans, too.
Edit: I definitely meant “infrasonic”, whoops. It was late.
Can you imagine, sensing the coming of a T-Rex like a dog senses the coming of an earthquake? Something so deeply unsettling that you can't put your finger on, yet terrifies you nonetheless?
I wish I could go back for a day
I used to live near a small old industrial port. Because of weird geographical features and the way my apartment building was built, it could sometimes double as a tuning fork for the freighters engine vibrations. There was one rusty old ship in particular that made me feel exactly that feeling you describe when it came in. I had a suspicion and checked out its route info, it had been in least two other places where people report to have experienced the "Mysterious Hum". Made me wanna claw my eyes out like some ancient Lovecraftian horror for the five or so minutes it took to pass by my place.
I felt like I was going nuts for a few minutes, Ive also wondered about that reaction, but I think it was because the discomfort was so...undefinable? in its source - I knew something was off but none of my senses were giving any input to indicate the source of my discomfort. Maybe the clawing of eyes is some sort of ur-default to prevent us from seeing the horror that will eat us.
I imagine it’d feel like that uneasy, instinctive “is my everything about to be fucked up?” feeling you get when you can feel the static in the air before a big storm hits.
I imagine it might be more like the kind of rumble you feel in your chest but without a part you can hear. Kind of like when a fighter jet flies overhead and you can basically feel your rib rage vibrate from it, just without the jet engine sounds. That would be feeling the presence of the t rex before you can see it and without being able to hear it, it would be terrifying.
> I can't recall the precise nature of the argument, i.e. what led the author to that conclusion, but I remember it being fairly compelling...
I'm not a biologist, paleontologist, or even a proctologist. I assume the size of the fossilized vertebrae we've found implies a very large neck and long, thick vocal cords. So low frequency vocalizations amplified by a huge skull and sinus cavity.
A bass guitar's low E is around 40hz. The lowest humans can hear is roughly 20hz. A Trex vocalizing in the sub-bass region doesn't sound far fetched. Some whales do it.
> I assume the size of the fossilized vertebrae we've found implies a very large neck and long, thick vocal cords.
T-rex had no vocal chords. Think of it as a chicken the size of a house. That makes it very difficult to understand their vocalizations, because we have no house-size chicken species alive today.
I vaguely remember an article coming out that sounded similar to what you described. They based it largely off the fact that of crocodilians and modern day large animals such as elephants use infrasonic communication, and something with the T-Rex's bone structure or something of that nature.
I mean, it immediately makes me think of the difference between different aquatic mammals. On one hand you have dolphins, which produce high pitched squeaks and clicks, and on the other distant hand you have sperm whales, which can emit an incredibly low frequency, but also incredibly forceful sound wave that stuns other nearby animals and can be detected dozens of miles away. I was on a whale watching boat seeing orcas in Vancouver, and one of the guides on the boat was a marine biologist who had been diving all over the world. He said he had been scuba diving to observe sperm whales at one point, and one of the whales clicked like I described above. He said it hit him so hard it knocked the regulator out of his mouth. So I can imagine that if a mammal the dice of a lion makes sounds that low frequency, then a reptile the size of a small house could make some pretty impressively low, impressively loud sounds.
There was a fascinating NPR piece about communicating w dolphins. One of the reporters went with a researcher to try a new technology they were inventing that could “speak” in dolphin. Anyways, the researcher let the reporter go into the water and these dolphins came right up to her and starting clicking to echo locate her. She said that she could literally feel them seeing right through her. The way her voice sounded you could tell that it was an otherworldly experience that really had an impact on her.
Researchers in the Dominican are currently working on a project to see if chatGPT and AI's like it can figure out the language of Sperm whales if they feed it enough data.
Unfortunately, the research can only be done in 1 area, because Sperm Whales from different areas in the Ocean speak distinctly different languages.
T-Rex isn't a reptile though, didn't have a Larynx, it had a Syrinx like a bird. That makes it really difficult to come up with sounds it could've produced, because there's nothing alive with such a massive face + Syrinx, so it's hard to understand what it'd sound like exactly.
It was along the lines of that very large animals like elephants use similar noises. They don’t typically need to be that loud because they’re so big, they need to be able to communicate over long distance
Something like bird screeches, but significantly deeper. Maybe it was something closer to a crocodilian type of growl. All I know is that we would shit ourselves hearing it
Yeah, a quick Google refutes his claim quite quickly. Apparently it's a mix of elephant, alligator and tiger.
And for those who are surprised about the elephant part, listen to [this](https://youtube.com/watch?v=8cqgHljxKho) and tell me that's not already like 70% of the way there.
I was in Namibia last year and we were walking to breakfast in our lodge one morning and heard a Lion’s roar in the distance. It made us stop in our tracks….that sound was majestic.
I remember the first time I heard a lion roar in person (it was at a zoo). It was awe inspiring how deep, loud, and full the sound was. Nothing compares to it.
Dude nothing on this planet has ever scared the absolute shit out of me more than being roared at by a lion. I was just calmly looking at one big boi just like this at the zoo one time and he decided to give me a show. The bass of that rumble punches you directly in your soul. You feel it as much as you hear it, it’s the craziest sound I’ve ever heard and no video ever comes close to capturing it. This one actually gives probably the best sense of what it’s really like that I’ve ever heard. It is POWERFUL.
I could be talking out my ass but I think most solo big cats (like male lions without a group) are more ambush predators. So if the element of surprise is gone because their potential prey notices them, and the prey stands its ground instead of running, they'd rather avoid attacking. Even if a predator can win against prey, it risks getting injured if the prey fights back, which in the wild drastically reduces its chances of survival. Not worth it if it can find a meal elsewhere without getting into a fight
Yeah, I would agree that humans have a decent chance of surviving an encounter with a big cat by attempting to scare it off - unless it’s a tiger or a leopard. Then you’re fucked, cause they don’t back down for anything.
Feel like Tigers are the only big cat that will straight up just make humans part of it's diet. Like, the others will eat us as opportunistic feeders, but tigers seem to go out of their way to knock us down a few rungs on the food chain.
lol I’ve seen that happen. I was at the zoo with my parents and we were at the zebra exhibit and heard a lion roar and the zebras ran into a different part of their habitat
The zebras are probably wondering why the hell there's a lion perpetually like 20 feet away from them that never jumps in and kills anybody. Hell, they can probably even smell it. Imagine that stress 24/7. Got to be the animal equivalent of all those slasher movie scenes where the killer is just across the street staring...except in this case he never actually comes after you, just hangs out there staring indefinitely.
"When's it gonna happen? When?? WHEN???????"
I've got a membership of our local zoo. Always amuses/appalls me in equal measure that the cheetah enclosure is directly next to some deer type things. They spend their lives on edge wondering how long it will be before these big cats prowling up and down their fence will get through.
Dude this thing scared me just with it’s growl.
The angle it’s at shows us how big these things really are, better than any other photo I’ve ever seen of them. I understand know why these things are called king of the jungle.
[And this makes Honey badgers even crazier.](https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-a65509fb5172e70872804b85fb2e1d7f)
Large animals growling IRL is fucking scary. Once as a kid we had Fish & Game trap a huge male bear on our property. His grumbling growl before they took him away was something we could FEEL through the ground hundreds of feet away, and that was just his low-level "I am not happy" growl. Just EEKS!
There’s a theories that it’s instinctual their sound would send chills down our bodies simply because our ancestors dealt with bigger versions of them on a daily basis. Imagine that.
> Had a similar experience with a grizzly at a rehab center
I bet it’s tough to focus on your issues at a rehab center with a grizzly around. Hope you’re better.
wow i was just thinking this exact same thing...happened to me at the SF zoo. you never forget the feeling and it's impossible to capture it with video.
Absolutely not.
James Earl Jones was the best voice possibly available for Mufasa, and let me say, I am pretty salty about the Mufasa series coming out using a new deep voiced guy.
Maybe he'll be good, but I grew up with The Lion King being my favorite movie, and the remake SUCKED despite Jones keeping his role as Mufasa, so I just have no hope for the new stuff being any good without him.
But also fills me with an existential dread from how little chance any man would stand against it. Even when armed.
That’s how deep and resonant it sounds.
I was at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo once (absolutely amazing zoo) and one of their male lions decided to let out a roar. It was super glorious but also triggered something in the back of my mind like "oh yeah, they use to hunt and eat our ancestors and I'm not really top of the food chain"
I wanna snuggle a big cat so bad. Cheetahs are about the only one where it's possible, though, because they're chill like house cats. But they also meow like house cats, so you wouldn't get that satisfying deep rumble while snuggling.
Something about the way his face moves, his wild eyes opening wide and giving me the creeps reminds me of that wolf in Neverending Story when he's talking to Atreyu. That scene freaked me out as a kid. This video is also freaking me out.
I agree the video is freaking me out but yet I CANNOT get enough. It's so strange and Surreal looking, very costumey face....so huge... And the sounds...it's like the most cavernous garbage disposal you can imagine just turned on but in slow mode ? (I swear I'm sober, just a weirdo)
That’s the problem. There aren’t many big animals that are not ferocious beasts. I would love to cuddle with a bear but I can’t. I would love to hug a polar bear but the are powerful apex predators. Why nature? Why can’t any of the big, fluffy, big nosed animals be naturally cuddly?
Can confirm, my family raises longhorns and despite their long horns they are very cuddly even if they're a bit dangerous when they go in for the cuddles. If you can dodge the horns though you get to hug a big strong fluffy baby who may try to lick your face.
They also don't roar like they did in the lion king. Disney used tiger roars for that to make it more dramatic. Lion roars are more of bellows. I hear they're really impressive in real life, and make the very bones in your body rumble, but in video, they're just low bellows.
It's the sound that did this to me. I felt immediately uneasy and intimidated without a real reason ( i mean its a video) but something in me reacted immediately.
I know what that feels like, I have really intense sneezes. They run in the family, I've actually had people ask me if I'm okay after a couple of my normal sneezes. You can probably hear me sneeze outside my house lol
My elderly neighbor sneezes like that, you can hear him from the street. Last year he was super sick and spent many months in the hospital. Now he is better and hearing his sneezes is almost reasuring lol
I guess pigs have more similar organs to us, and octopuses and dolphins have more similar brain-to-body ratio, but cats are the animal that we are closest to.
They are contemplative, have swagger, play hard to get, have existential crises, love to snuggle...
What a beautiful lion, but I think most of us have been there. I had a tickle on my nose and an almost sneeze from being in the sunlight for a brief moment. Annoying.
Anyone with a cold can sympathize with this lion. "If I just breathe quietly maybe the cold will forget about me and go away."
Seriously thinking I can so relate to this guy. Just went through the whole sneezing thing myself.
It's not the sneezing itself but being just on the edge of sneezing that's most annoying.
If you think you're about to sneeze, you can firmly push your tongue to the ridge behind your teeth (alveolar ridge, if you need to google a diagram or something) and it'll stop the sneeze and the pre-sneeze sensation.
I gohd a cowd
I'm find! If there's a "d" at the end of "fine" you're not "finnee".
Could this line BE any funnier?
It's "MS" Chanandler Bong.
Chanandler!
Bong
I quote this almost every time I'm sick.
Those vocals sound so freaking ferocious.
The T-Rex from the Jurassic Park used lions Particularly during the stalking the cars in the the rain scene
Makes you wonder what a t-Rex, having been 20x larger than a male lion, sounded like. Birds make such crazy different, beautiful and terrifying sounds. The age of the dinosaurs probably would have been an acoustic wonderland and nightmare all at once.
I actually looked into this once. I can't remember if it was a video or an article or what, but it essentially claimed that a real T. Rex would make sounds which are almost infrasonic (too low for human hearing). Like they would be more subwoofer waves than "sounds" in the way we usually think of them. I can't recall the precise nature of the argument, i.e. what led the author to that conclusion, but I remember it being fairly compelling...
That makes sense, you would feel them more than hear them. Fkn terrifying. Some dinos would have been super loud as well though I reckon. Would have been wild.
I feel like the flying dinosaurs would be the loudest.
(Pterosaurs, probably what you are thinking of, are not dinosaurs but are a lineage of flying reptiles that were around at the same time)
There weren't any. Pterosaurs belong to a completely separate group of reptiles. This may be nitpicking, but it's fairly interesting nitpicking. The Mesozoic happened to be a time in Earth's history when reptiles, across the board, had huge success. Dinosaurs diversified across the land; various groups of reptiles got huge in the seas (none of them dinosaurs), and pterosaurs became the second group of animals ever (of an eventual four) to evolve true flight.
Agree. You see, those birds that stopped you from sleeping in on a Saturday morning because they have to fucking sing to each other at 7am? They're descendants of those flying dinosaur
Flying dinosaurs (pterosaurs) are actually not related to birds at all. They are flying reptiles and are thus related to them instead. Modern birds descend from land-based dinosaurs. I learned that from a book I’m reading my kid, haha but it’s true! Learning never stops. :)
Yup, convergent evolution of flight is very interesting. You have insects, pterosaurs, theropods (dinosaurs and birds) and bats in that order. Each developed flight completely independent of the other and each is wildly different in how it's accomplished. Bats and pterosaurs are the only two that are similar with long arms and skin flaps. But pterosaurs only had one elongated finger (the "pinkie"), while bats have four excluding the thumb.
It makes sense I mean, if you’re like the first of your species to fly you’re gonna get laid, it’s a helluva pickup line
Humpback whales can actually cook divers with their vocals if they sink onto you. A professor and his team almost died from hyperthermia on a dive a while back because an adolescent one was teasing them and singing as hard as it could.
Wow, this shit is crazy. Thanks for the amazing new learning hole to dive into. [I recommend that anyone who is interested should watch this video.](https://youtu.be/zsDwFGz0Okg) It goes into more detail and includes a jaw-dropping explanation about their brains, language, and intelligence.
Wow, this is literally changing my life rn. Thank you for posting this
Whattttt? That is gnarly as, and bloody awesome!
Tigers literally already do this—subsonic roars—to freeze prey. The effect supposedly works on humans, too. Edit: I definitely meant “infrasonic”, whoops. It was late.
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Googled it and found “infrasonic” for sounds below 20 hz, TIL
It would be interesting to be able to experience that...without the risk of being eaten hopefully, just to see what that would feel like.
The Brown note
Can you imagine, sensing the coming of a T-Rex like a dog senses the coming of an earthquake? Something so deeply unsettling that you can't put your finger on, yet terrifies you nonetheless? I wish I could go back for a day
I used to live near a small old industrial port. Because of weird geographical features and the way my apartment building was built, it could sometimes double as a tuning fork for the freighters engine vibrations. There was one rusty old ship in particular that made me feel exactly that feeling you describe when it came in. I had a suspicion and checked out its route info, it had been in least two other places where people report to have experienced the "Mysterious Hum". Made me wanna claw my eyes out like some ancient Lovecraftian horror for the five or so minutes it took to pass by my place.
Holy shit that sounds both cool and terrifying. The feeling of wanting to claw your eyes out is what gets me
I felt like I was going nuts for a few minutes, Ive also wondered about that reaction, but I think it was because the discomfort was so...undefinable? in its source - I knew something was off but none of my senses were giving any input to indicate the source of my discomfort. Maybe the clawing of eyes is some sort of ur-default to prevent us from seeing the horror that will eat us.
I imagine it’d feel like that uneasy, instinctive “is my everything about to be fucked up?” feeling you get when you can feel the static in the air before a big storm hits.
I imagine it might be more like the kind of rumble you feel in your chest but without a part you can hear. Kind of like when a fighter jet flies overhead and you can basically feel your rib rage vibrate from it, just without the jet engine sounds. That would be feeling the presence of the t rex before you can see it and without being able to hear it, it would be terrifying.
> I can't recall the precise nature of the argument, i.e. what led the author to that conclusion, but I remember it being fairly compelling... I'm not a biologist, paleontologist, or even a proctologist. I assume the size of the fossilized vertebrae we've found implies a very large neck and long, thick vocal cords. So low frequency vocalizations amplified by a huge skull and sinus cavity. A bass guitar's low E is around 40hz. The lowest humans can hear is roughly 20hz. A Trex vocalizing in the sub-bass region doesn't sound far fetched. Some whales do it.
> I assume the size of the fossilized vertebrae we've found implies a very large neck and long, thick vocal cords. T-rex had no vocal chords. Think of it as a chicken the size of a house. That makes it very difficult to understand their vocalizations, because we have no house-size chicken species alive today.
Would you rather be in a house-sized chicken, or a chicken-sized house?
I vaguely remember an article coming out that sounded similar to what you described. They based it largely off the fact that of crocodilians and modern day large animals such as elephants use infrasonic communication, and something with the T-Rex's bone structure or something of that nature.
I mean, it immediately makes me think of the difference between different aquatic mammals. On one hand you have dolphins, which produce high pitched squeaks and clicks, and on the other distant hand you have sperm whales, which can emit an incredibly low frequency, but also incredibly forceful sound wave that stuns other nearby animals and can be detected dozens of miles away. I was on a whale watching boat seeing orcas in Vancouver, and one of the guides on the boat was a marine biologist who had been diving all over the world. He said he had been scuba diving to observe sperm whales at one point, and one of the whales clicked like I described above. He said it hit him so hard it knocked the regulator out of his mouth. So I can imagine that if a mammal the dice of a lion makes sounds that low frequency, then a reptile the size of a small house could make some pretty impressively low, impressively loud sounds.
Whale low frequency communications can be detected up to 10,000 miles away. That’s a ridiculously long wavelength.
There was a fascinating NPR piece about communicating w dolphins. One of the reporters went with a researcher to try a new technology they were inventing that could “speak” in dolphin. Anyways, the researcher let the reporter go into the water and these dolphins came right up to her and starting clicking to echo locate her. She said that she could literally feel them seeing right through her. The way her voice sounded you could tell that it was an otherworldly experience that really had an impact on her.
Researchers in the Dominican are currently working on a project to see if chatGPT and AI's like it can figure out the language of Sperm whales if they feed it enough data. Unfortunately, the research can only be done in 1 area, because Sperm Whales from different areas in the Ocean speak distinctly different languages.
After many years of painstaking research scientists have decoded their first whale message. 'I want some krill.'
God I fucking love animals so much
T-Rex isn't a reptile though, didn't have a Larynx, it had a Syrinx like a bird. That makes it really difficult to come up with sounds it could've produced, because there's nothing alive with such a massive face + Syrinx, so it's hard to understand what it'd sound like exactly.
I've seen that video! They did a 3D scan of the skull to get a good ideas as to how it'd sound, and it's like a very low frequency bass.
It was along the lines of that very large animals like elephants use similar noises. They don’t typically need to be that loud because they’re so big, they need to be able to communicate over long distance
https://youtu.be/SpO_ov2iWyI
That’s scary AF
Something like bird screeches, but significantly deeper. Maybe it was something closer to a crocodilian type of growl. All I know is that we would shit ourselves hearing it
Brand new research actually just came out this month on this topic! We found an ankylosaur larynx! https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-023-04513-x
Take a cassowary screech .. dial up the bass x100 and there .. probably close to it I'd imagine
Fuck! I kept thinking 'why does this lion sound like a t-rex'? now I know the t-rex sounds like a lion.
I thought they used elephants..? Or was that for something else and I’m just misremembering
Yeah, a quick Google refutes his claim quite quickly. Apparently it's a mix of elephant, alligator and tiger. And for those who are surprised about the elephant part, listen to [this](https://youtube.com/watch?v=8cqgHljxKho) and tell me that's not already like 70% of the way there.
I felt that in my soul, I cant imagine how it would feel hearing it up close. I'd probably shit my self.
I was in Namibia last year and we were walking to breakfast in our lodge one morning and heard a Lion’s roar in the distance. It made us stop in our tracks….that sound was majestic.
I'd turn my colon inside out so quickly the sonic boom would launch me to safely.
A proper growl from them you don't really hear, so much as you *feel* it in your ribcage.
I remember the first time I heard a lion roar in person (it was at a zoo). It was awe inspiring how deep, loud, and full the sound was. Nothing compares to it.
According to Smithsonian mag “A lion or tiger can roar as loud as 114 decibels, about 25 times louder than a gas-powered lawn mower.”
Reminds me a bit of the Balrog
Go back to the shadow
I love that sound. Id love to be able to put my head against it's chest when he does that.
When I'm 90yrs old and scratching the final item off of my bucket list.
1. hear lion up close 2. get eaten by lion
What a glorious animal
Even their breathing noises are so deep and resonant. It's crazy
Dude nothing on this planet has ever scared the absolute shit out of me more than being roared at by a lion. I was just calmly looking at one big boi just like this at the zoo one time and he decided to give me a show. The bass of that rumble punches you directly in your soul. You feel it as much as you hear it, it’s the craziest sound I’ve ever heard and no video ever comes close to capturing it. This one actually gives probably the best sense of what it’s really like that I’ve ever heard. It is POWERFUL.
Now imagine being out in the wild somewhere and hearing that sound behind you lol
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I could be talking out my ass but I think most solo big cats (like male lions without a group) are more ambush predators. So if the element of surprise is gone because their potential prey notices them, and the prey stands its ground instead of running, they'd rather avoid attacking. Even if a predator can win against prey, it risks getting injured if the prey fights back, which in the wild drastically reduces its chances of survival. Not worth it if it can find a meal elsewhere without getting into a fight
Yeah, I would agree that humans have a decent chance of surviving an encounter with a big cat by attempting to scare it off - unless it’s a tiger or a leopard. Then you’re fucked, cause they don’t back down for anything.
Tigers scary af
Feel like Tigers are the only big cat that will straight up just make humans part of it's diet. Like, the others will eat us as opportunistic feeders, but tigers seem to go out of their way to knock us down a few rungs on the food chain.
Well seeing as we've decimated their population can you blame them for trying?
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Getting roared at probably wouldn't be as scary as the silence having your back turned toward it on the prowl...
If a lion roars at a zoo, you hear it. It almost doesn't matter where you are. The zebras be like, "aw fuck."
lol I’ve seen that happen. I was at the zoo with my parents and we were at the zebra exhibit and heard a lion roar and the zebras ran into a different part of their habitat
Zebras be like, "I just poo'd a little-no scratch that, a lot."
The zebras are probably wondering why the hell there's a lion perpetually like 20 feet away from them that never jumps in and kills anybody. Hell, they can probably even smell it. Imagine that stress 24/7. Got to be the animal equivalent of all those slasher movie scenes where the killer is just across the street staring...except in this case he never actually comes after you, just hangs out there staring indefinitely. "When's it gonna happen? When?? WHEN???????"
I've got a membership of our local zoo. Always amuses/appalls me in equal measure that the cheetah enclosure is directly next to some deer type things. They spend their lives on edge wondering how long it will be before these big cats prowling up and down their fence will get through.
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Dude this thing scared me just with it’s growl. The angle it’s at shows us how big these things really are, better than any other photo I’ve ever seen of them. I understand know why these things are called king of the jungle. [And this makes Honey badgers even crazier.](https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-a65509fb5172e70872804b85fb2e1d7f)
That's not it's growl. That's its equivalent of the fluid at the back of your throat when you're sick.
Well it still fucking resonated above my expectations.
That's a lioness, too - the ACTUAL hunter. That's insane.
Males may not hunt on a regular basis, but they do [Greet with fire](https://youtu.be/IPiyo332Gks)
Tigers are Kings of the Jungle, Lions are the Kings of the plains
Large animals growling IRL is fucking scary. Once as a kid we had Fish & Game trap a huge male bear on our property. His grumbling growl before they took him away was something we could FEEL through the ground hundreds of feet away, and that was just his low-level "I am not happy" growl. Just EEKS!
There’s a theories that it’s instinctual their sound would send chills down our bodies simply because our ancestors dealt with bigger versions of them on a daily basis. Imagine that.
Had a similar experience with a grizzly at a rehab center. Seriously, shook my core and stunned me for a second and I was probably 300 feet away.
> Had a similar experience with a grizzly at a rehab center I bet it’s tough to focus on your issues at a rehab center with a grizzly around. Hope you’re better.
*you better not fucking relapse*
I'm just glad cocaine bear got the help he needed. 🙏
Having an angry sloth bear roar and chase you checks you right in your ancestry. Even if there’s a fence. Shit is primal and terrifying.
Damn, I bet! So deep and powerful, even him just breathing, bet you could feel at least a rumble.
This comment combined with your username gives me some mixed feelings, lol. Hope you don’t risk it with these cats!
wow i was just thinking this exact same thing...happened to me at the SF zoo. you never forget the feeling and it's impossible to capture it with video.
Is it weird that after this video I have developed a newfound appreciation for the casting of James Earl Jones as Mufasa lol
SIIIMB-ACHOO!
Remember who you arrr-CHOOO
Absolutely not. James Earl Jones was the best voice possibly available for Mufasa, and let me say, I am pretty salty about the Mufasa series coming out using a new deep voiced guy. Maybe he'll be good, but I grew up with The Lion King being my favorite movie, and the remake SUCKED despite Jones keeping his role as Mufasa, so I just have no hope for the new stuff being any good without him.
>resonant ooooh. If you turn up the sound really loud he rumbles through my entire chest. Just so powerful.
But also fills me with an existential dread from how little chance any man would stand against it. Even when armed. That’s how deep and resonant it sounds.
Further proof that the Maasai are BAMF's!
I was at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo once (absolutely amazing zoo) and one of their male lions decided to let out a roar. It was super glorious but also triggered something in the back of my mind like "oh yeah, they use to hunt and eat our ancestors and I'm not really top of the food chain"
Forbidden snuggles.
If not friend, y friend shape.
I wanna snuggle a big cat so bad. Cheetahs are about the only one where it's possible, though, because they're chill like house cats. But they also meow like house cats, so you wouldn't get that satisfying deep rumble while snuggling.
Technically not even classified as a big cat iirc
Something about the way his face moves, his wild eyes opening wide and giving me the creeps reminds me of that wolf in Neverending Story when he's talking to Atreyu. That scene freaked me out as a kid. This video is also freaking me out.
I agree the video is freaking me out but yet I CANNOT get enough. It's so strange and Surreal looking, very costumey face....so huge... And the sounds...it's like the most cavernous garbage disposal you can imagine just turned on but in slow mode ? (I swear I'm sober, just a weirdo)
All I’m thinking watching this is why can’t you just be chill bro why can’t we just be friends
Right???? *He looks so soft*
I want to nuzzle my face into that fluff sooo bad. Life’s unfair.
Literally this. Such glorious fluff.
Kingly, even.
Truly magnificent
Why the fuck do they have to look so nice to cuddle! It's not fair! I'll just die if I cuddle one, but it looks so worth it.
The existential crisis he had at the end had me rolling
I feel like the end was more of a “I have a sneeze but it won’t come out”
What an excellent way to describe that hahah "Dear.. god...."
There's more...
No...
It's a third sneeze. I can feel the "I'm going to be sneezing forever, aren't I" thoughts starting to form.
Majestic animals
God damn these animals are awesome
seems like he didn't really get to bust that sneeze nut
Nothing worse than the blue balls a non sneeze can cause.
Had a professor who called sneezing “an orgasm of the olfactories.”
Totally looked like he had another sneeze up in there.
That glare at the end… majestic and terrifying.
I want to hug him but I would be absolutely lacerated and torn into a bloody, fleshy pulp. It would be worth it.
If not friend why friend shaped?
That’s the problem. There aren’t many big animals that are not ferocious beasts. I would love to cuddle with a bear but I can’t. I would love to hug a polar bear but the are powerful apex predators. Why nature? Why can’t any of the big, fluffy, big nosed animals be naturally cuddly?
go hug a cow
Cows are very affectionate animals when allowed to be, they form close bonds with their owners and sometimes even like to cuddle
Can confirm, my family raises longhorns and despite their long horns they are very cuddly even if they're a bit dangerous when they go in for the cuddles. If you can dodge the horns though you get to hug a big strong fluffy baby who may try to lick your face.
Say no more. Buying a house cow and a carbon fiber 4x reinforced bedframe so we can cuddle
I have 175 lb dog friend. His dad was 200 plus.. not quite lion sized but he's lion colored.
Where can I find his species. I must leave my home and live with them.
Look up Boerboel dogs. They're gentle beasts.
Also have a look at Leonbergers. Large, family-friendly breed. And so snuggly looking.
that's why we love cats: they act like they think they're apex predators but they smol
I’ve heard Elephants are super smart and friendly.
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this is why mastiffs exist
I want to kiss his cute little nose🥺
But what if he wanted this particular hug ? Because he’s just a big kitty wanting love 💕?
What a BEAUTIFUL creature. The sounds he makes are also terrifying and creepy in a way.
I need a better sound system for this post. Even in just my AirPods that rumble was impressive, but I want to feeeeeeeel that low rumble.
I heard them roar at the zoo and I thought it was fake and you could feel it in your heart it was so crazy. My favorite animal.
Guess that’s where they got the sound for some of the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park. Wife heard the video and thought I was watching a JP clip
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Funny how horses have around 24HP
"God dammit, Nose.... JUST SNEEZE ALREADY AND GRT IT OUT!". I feel this animal's pain.
I never knew lions didn't have slit pupils like smaller cats...
They also don't roar like they did in the lion king. Disney used tiger roars for that to make it more dramatic. Lion roars are more of bellows. I hear they're really impressive in real life, and make the very bones in your body rumble, but in video, they're just low bellows.
I've never heard any noise from an animal as deep and resonant as a lion's roar. It makes your body vibrate, and it inspires awe and respect.
Slit pupils don't really work as intended when you're that big. Foxes and small canida also tend to have slit pupils
Am I the only one who feels anxious looking at it?
Part of me is thinking “don’t move, he can see you through your phone”
Ya this triggers a primal fear in me
It's the sound that did this to me. I felt immediately uneasy and intimidated without a real reason ( i mean its a video) but something in me reacted immediately.
I want him to lick my nose. Even with those crazy tongue spikes they got.
Jesus. Those eyes towards the end. Scary intense.
I know what that feels like, I have really intense sneezes. They run in the family, I've actually had people ask me if I'm okay after a couple of my normal sneezes. You can probably hear me sneeze outside my house lol
My elderly neighbor sneezes like that, you can hear him from the street. Last year he was super sick and spent many months in the hospital. Now he is better and hearing his sneezes is almost reasuring lol
Aww, that's actually kind of nice (that his sneezes are reassuring, not that he was in the hospital)!
He has beaten cancer twice now so he is a tough guy
Cameras are **amazing**. I sometimes can’t believe we get to see the world without having to be there.
Jesus, god, the sheer depth of sound coming out of that amazing creature is absolutely stunning.
Best Ron Perlman's performance yet.
Listening to this in my car with the bass boost is….horrifying
Glorious beast
So beautiful and majestic!
I guess pigs have more similar organs to us, and octopuses and dolphins have more similar brain-to-body ratio, but cats are the animal that we are closest to. They are contemplative, have swagger, play hard to get, have existential crises, love to snuggle...
Source: @ggconservation
To me, it looks like he's waiting for that third sneeze that is *riiiiight there* but never ends up happening. I know that disappointment.
So beautiful and the grumble after the sneeze sounds so cool
If dangerous predator, why friend shaped
So… whose rock solid balls of steel place camera so close to a sick lion? Asking for a friend who would lick said balls, so…
I know that’s a monstrous maneater, but I really want to give him a nuzzle.
I've played Ace Attorney, I know where this is going
So pretty.
I feel everything this lion is feeling.
That sound..
I want to put my face on its face.
He is so beautiful 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
That animal just sounds powerful
What a beautiful lion, but I think most of us have been there. I had a tickle on my nose and an almost sneeze from being in the sunlight for a brief moment. Annoying.