This behavioral constellation includes the following behaviors: Roar, Rumble and occurs in the following context(s): Advertisement & Attraction, Conflict & Confrontation, Protest & Distress
Rumble-Roar
Context: Protest & Distress (1)
Walli is with her two calves, a 5 year old male and an infant female. The 5 year old is bullying the infant female, attacking her and preventing her from Suckling. She is highly distressed, trying to access the breast, but each time she tries he runs around from the other side and she flees Crying and Roaring.
As the clips starts we see her running forward and giving a Husky-Cry, while he is on the other side as he tries to Suckle. The male comes around on the other side in view and the infant looks terrified - her Chin-Up and ears flattened against her body. She gives another Husky-Cry. And they as he Suckles she gives a Rumble-Roar though this still has Husky-Cry quality to it like a Husky-Cry-Roar. She gives another Husky-Cry and we hear Walli respond with a Rumble - likely a Coo-Rumble and then she Husky-Cries again. Though we can't see what is going on as the filmmaker is adjusting the position of the camera. (Maasai Mara, Kenya)
Rumble-Roar
Context: Protest & Distress (2)
There is tension around an estrous female. A fight has broken out between two males - one with two broken tusks and another with longer curved tusks. The have just clashed. In unusual behavior two additional males have sided with the broken tusked male in a coalition against the longer tusked male. They gang up on him and outnumbered he turns and Runs-Away emiting a V8-Rumble followed by a Rumble-Roar and another V8-Rumble. (Amboseli, Kenya)
This clip contains part of an Estrous-Rumble overlapping with a Rumble-Roar -two calls that occurred at the beginning of a Mating-Pandemonium. (Maasai Mara, Kenya)
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Enid threatens a group of 6 lions with a powerful Rumble-Roar. We hear a very short Rumble, an inhale and then a deafening Roar-Rumble. The lions growl and run away. There is a half minute pause and then she Trumpet-Blasts at them. There is more Rumbling. (Amboseli, Kenya)
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In this Mating-Pandemonium the excited Rumbles, Social-Trumpets and Roar-Rumbles by associates of the mated female overlay her Estrous-Rumble sequence or song. The calls by the mated female are those that reach a rapid peak in frequency and are repeated rising and falling at fairly regular intervals. There are 5 combination calls. Due to the overlapping nature of the calls it is hard to be sure of the order but we believe the first is a Rumble-Roar and the rest are Roar-Rumbles. (Maasai Mara, Kenya)
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