Real T-Rex Sounds
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Published 2023-01-16
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These low-frequency, ultrasound types of noises, which dinosaurs such as T rex were much more likely to have produced than the classically associated roar, are so much more intimidating. These bellows and woops make them sound utterly alien. Edit: infrasound* (sound acoustics is not my area of expertise!)
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I work at a zoo, and hearing the lion roar from up close sends chill down your spine. It makes your whole chest vibrate. You never get used to it. I can't imagine what it must be to have a much bigger creature in front of you.
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I think the most ominous part is that it’s not a roaring sound; it’s a quiet sound, but simultaneously it’s deep and conveys the power of its owner.
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As someone born and raised in Alberta it is quite humbling to know that these magnificent creatures once roamed here
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You'd very much FEEL it more than hear it honestly. Those low frequencies will vibrate your insides like crazy
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Many people find this scarier than roars in the movies and that's probably because this is realistic, our instinct tells us that it means danger
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This gives me goosebumps, even though our species didn’t coexist during the same timeline and the gap is extremely huge, it’s still impressive the sensitivity that we have rooted in our evolutionary history
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I really respect the OP for going back in time 170 million years to record this 👍🏻
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As iconic as those roars from Jurassic Park are,this just adds a completely different sense of fear that's both raw but incredibly primal.
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This is way more terrifying than movie depictions and i LOVE IT
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It’s beautiful and terrifying at the same time. It definitely gives the foreboding effect that the T-Rex itself brings. It is amazing what mother nature can create.
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For those wondering what those rumblings are, that's just what really low frequencies sound like. Anything below 20 hertz, and the individual cycles of the air moving that make up sound are actually distinguishable by the human ear and brain. It's kind of like why a buzzsaw sounds like it's making a tone when cutting through something, because the sounds of the individual cuts are so fast that they just blend in our minds.
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I remember reading Jurassic Park as a kid. There was one part that always stuck with me. In the book a park attendant leaves the two children in the car when the T-Rex comes. He describes the sound of the T-Rex as a primal terror “something no man was ever meant to hear”. These sounds also fit that description.
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If I heard this in a movie, I'd be on the edge of my seat. This is incredibly terrifying. Fantastic sound design.
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"What about Cooper?!" "Forget him, times up."
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The low frequency "growls" are setting my nervous system on fire man.
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This is actually really creepy but strangely relaxing at the same time.
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For a moment it sounded like the Godzilla's atomic breath charging up. That said, while the T-rex roars as we know them from Jurassic Park were scary, imagine walking through the forest and hearing these sounds. They sound scary af too.
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0:38 Damn, you revived a childhood memory of mine. I loved imagining dinosaurs that charged up laser breaths back in my childhood days.
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My theory is that Trex’s sound is cross between a lion, large flightless bird, and a crocodilian
