Oftentimes our furry friends can remind us of some of our favorite animal characters from books, TV shows and movies. A baby lion cub at the Cougar Mountain Zoo in Washington is a great example. This ...

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 ...

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 ...

For decades, a lion's roar was thought to be a single, familiar sound. But hidden inside that iconic call is a second, long-overlooked "intermediary roar" that reveals a more complex vocal landscape ...

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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 ...