Lions use two roar types. Full roars reveal identity and show how regional accent differences support better lion surveys.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

A team of ecologists and computer scientists from the University of Exeter and Oxford have discovered that the African lion ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...