List of animal sounds

Gazelles are herbivores, which means they eat plants. Most species graze on grasses and also browse on leaves, shrubs, and more. Because they are quite small, many stand on their hind legs and use their long necks to reach the uppermost leaves. When water is plentiful, these animals usually eat more grasses.

Gazelles are extremely important prey animals, and are preyed upon by all major predators in an ecosystem, including lions, cheetahs, leopards, crocodiles, jackals, African wild dogs, hyenas and humans.

Different types of antelope also make different sounds that may include bleats, bellows, grunts, moos, and more. A gerenuk’s main call sounds like a combined grunt and moan; a squeaky snort means the gerenuk is annoyed by something, while a buzzing sound means that they are alarmed.

The pant-hoot is most often produced jointly with other males, in a complementary behaviour known as chorusing, as opposed to producing the calls individually. These loud, long-distance vocalizations are produced for numerous purposes in a variety of different circumstances and situations.

Monkeys and apes lack the neural control over their vocal tract muscles to properly configure them for speech, Fitch concludes. “If a human brain were in control, they could talk,” he says, though it remains a bit of a mystery why other animals can produce at least rudimentary speech.

Both lions and tigers have very loud roars, but the lion has a louder roar.