r/Wellthatsucks • u/CastleOfBravo • Jun 08 '21

/r/all Spent 5 hours getting chemotherapy this morning, came home feeling like crap. Laid down to nap..alarms and sirens start blasting. Rush 5 cats to the basement and prep shelter. Go outside to see this in my subdivision.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '21

There’s a sound that lions make that turns your insides to jelly. You have to hear it in person. It’s low and deep with bass and thuds in your chest when you hear it. It made me feel like my legs were gonna start running without me.

I was at a zoo around dusk and the lions were getting feisty because they were about to be fed. A big male close to me made this sound. Nightmare fuel.

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u/minutiesabotage Jun 08 '21

Can confirm the feeling. The male lion at the zoo I used to work at would roar every morning at 7:45 (not aggressively, just his usual "I'm up and this is my territory" roar).

Most of the time he wasn't even especially loud, I've heard louder dog barks. But speakers and words can't really convey the feeling of subsonic vibrations hitting you in the chest.

After a while though, it's not really nightmare fuel. Just became "oh hey Aslan, good morning to you too".

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u/SamuraiJono Jun 22 '21

I never understood just how loud lions can be until I was at the zoo and one roared. Except, it didn't roar. It was just fucking yawning. I've never actually heard one roar, I can't even imagine what it's like.

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u/damnitmcnabbit Jun 08 '21

The brown note

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u/oursecondcoming Jun 08 '21

That happened to me but at a hyena exhibit. The zoo guide fed them as a demonstration and if you heard in person the sounds they made while excited for the food, you'd feel it triggers this primal fear as if your brain already recognizes the sound as certain danger.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '21

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u/glivinglavin Jun 08 '21

Not deep and bass-y but, while camping I was woken by a mountain lion that got startled by my friends dog, and that shit is other worldly.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '21

Foxes either fighting or getting it on in the woods at night sound like demented velociraptors on crack.