About this minute
- Title
- Lions
- Recordist
- Simon Bearder
- Contributor
- British Library Wildlife Sound Archive
- Year
- 1974 – 1975
- Location
- South Africa, Africa
- Collections
- Collection 1
- Related resource guides
- Field Recordings , Big Cats , Calls , Calls , Natural World , Natural world
Collection 1 #36
Grrr…what a terrifying sound! Were you scared? You heard the roars and snarls of a Lion, recorded in South Africa. Lions live on the African planes in family groups called ‘prides’. What do you think this lion was doing? Perhaps he was trying to scare off a rival, or maybe he was communicating with other…