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What do you think most dinosaurs sounded like? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I think it was on Ben G Thomas on YT that I've seen academic references saying various ways dinosaurs likely sounded like birds in their vocalizations. Do you know of any scientifically grounded reconstructions of possible sounds?

There were just a bunch of song birds outside my window, and my mind drifted onto this. I want to picture something like the first few scenes of the original Jurassic Park but with feathered songbird caricatures whistling and tweeting either at some monstrously low tone or some ridiculously high pitch for their size like a bunch of Mike Tyson's frolicking around.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Like chickens.

I'm not even joking. The sounds ours make would be terrifying if they were the size of an ostrich, much less a trex

[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

Bโ€™GAWK!

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Because of biggerness, they'd be at several octaves lower, I would think. Compare your chickens' sounds to hummingbirds, then go the other way.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

No doubt :)

I can imagine hearing the growls and trills they make in basso range lol

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Have you ever heard big cats? They sound like little cats but... deeper. I feel like dinosaurs would sound like birds with similar deepening, depending on the size of the dino.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Did you know that turtles scream when they, uh, copulate? Imagine how loud a dinosaur would have been.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Probably something like this

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

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something like this

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure, but considering most animals make at least some sounds none of us would guess came from them, I wouldn't be surprised if the topic of their vocals was just abandoned by science and left up for interpretation.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

make at least some sounds none of us would guess came from them

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Thanks, Pipey.

[โ€“] kemsat 5 points 9 months ago

Kinda like birds, but much deeper/lower & also slower. Instead of making 12 sounds in 1.5 seconds, they would maybe take like 6 seconds to make the same 12 sounds.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Jacha-chacha-chacha-chow!

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

https://piped.video/watch?v=-un8q10OeII

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://piped.video/-un8q10OeII?si=i-F6kwq-oJipP4g-

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I'll be very disappointed when they finally clone a real life T-Rex from DNA preserved in amber, and it won't sound like it's supposed to, meaning like Gary Rydstrom decided how they should sound.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I like to imagine they all sounded like pigeons.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

shoebills

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

something loud & terrifying, like elephant loud but as terrifying as a lion... Idk

[โ€“] isthingoneventhis 1 points 9 months ago

loud honky bois