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minus-squaresaltnotsugar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up39·2 months agoT-Rex: So for this scene did you want a long pondering stare, like I’m figuring out who I am- Director: LOL bro just roar AIGHT!? Action!
minus-squareFuglyDuck@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·2 months agoBet they honked like a goose.
minus-squareOwOarchist@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down1·2 months agoIf they did, it would at least be a lot lower-pitched than a goose. Vocalization frequency tends to scale with the size of an animal. So I’m guessing their honk would sound more like a foghorn … which is kind of terrifying in its own way.
minus-squaresaltnotsugar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·2 months ago(Heavy fog over the water as a ships crew look out in concern) HOOOOOOONK Captain: RIGHT FULL RUDDER!!!
minus-squareFuglyDuck@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 months agoI mean, sure. Maybe. Probably? But can you imagine anything more terrifying than a multi-ton Canada goose charging and honking at you?
minus-squaresaltnotsugar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 months ago(Slow heavy metal version of O Canada plays as mega goose swoops in)
minus-squareSlurpingPus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoCounterexample: cheetahs. They sort of meow instead of roaring.
minus-squareayyy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoHave you heard what a horny moose sounds like? Although I guess that’s not technically a “vocalization”.
minus-squareNatanox@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoDidn’t they have feathers? Or was that another era?
minus-squareOwOarchist@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·2 months agoYes, current consensus is that T-Rex probably had at least some feathers.
T-Rex: So for this scene did you want a long pondering stare, like I’m figuring out who I am-
Director: LOL bro just roar AIGHT!? Action!
Bet they honked like a goose.
If they did, it would at least be a lot lower-pitched than a goose. Vocalization frequency tends to scale with the size of an animal.
So I’m guessing their honk would sound more like a foghorn … which is kind of terrifying in its own way.
(Heavy fog over the water as a ships crew look out in concern)
HOOOOOOONK
Captain: RIGHT FULL RUDDER!!!
I mean, sure. Maybe. Probably?
But can you imagine anything more terrifying than a multi-ton Canada goose charging and honking at you?
(Slow heavy metal version of O Canada plays as mega goose swoops in)
Counterexample: cheetahs. They sort of meow instead of roaring.
Have you heard what a horny moose sounds like? Although I guess that’s not technically a “vocalization”.
Didn’t they have feathers? Or was that another era?
Yes, current consensus is that T-Rex probably had at least some feathers.
Be happy, with your mouth open