Growling, the Glossary
Growling is a low, guttural vocalization produced by animals as an aggressive warning but can also be found in other contexts such as playful behaviors or mating.[1]
Table of Contents
31 relations: Aggression, Alligator, Animal communication, Bark (sound), Bear, Canidae, Consonant, Crocodilia, Crustacean, Death growl, Dog, Dog bite, English language, Felidae, Formant, Ghost crab, Grunt, Guttural, Horse, Larynx, Leopard, Ogg, Onomatopoeia, Paralanguage, Polar bear, Roar (vocalization), Slender seahorse, Snarl, Tiger, Triglidae, Voiced dental, alveolar and postalveolar trills.
- Animal sounds
Aggression
Aggression is a behavior aimed at opposing or attacking something or someone.
Alligator
An alligator, or colloquially gator, is a large reptile in the genus Alligator of the family Alligatoridae of the order Crocodilia.
Animal communication
Animal communication is the transfer of information from one or a group of animals (sender or senders) to one or more other animals (receiver or receivers) that affects the current or future behavior of the receivers.
See Growling and Animal communication
Bark (sound)
A bark is a sound most often produced by dogs. Growling and bark (sound) are animal sounds.
Bear
Bears are carnivoran mammals of the family Ursidae.
Canidae
Canidae (from Latin, canis, "dog") is a biological family of dog-like carnivorans, colloquially referred to as dogs, and constitutes a clade.
Consonant
In articulatory phonetics, a consonant is a speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the vocal tract, except for the h, which is pronounced without any stricture in the vocal tract.
Crocodilia
Crocodilia (or Crocodylia, both) is an order of semiaquatic, predatory reptiles known as crocodilians.
Crustacean
Crustaceans are a group of arthropods that are a part of the subphylum Crustacea, a large, diverse group of mainly aquatic arthropods including decapods (shrimps, prawns, crabs, lobsters and crayfish), seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, opossum shrimps, amphipods and mantis shrimp.
Death growl
The death growl is an extended vocal technique usually employed in death metal and other extreme subgenres of heavy metal music.
Dog
The dog (Canis familiaris or Canis lupus familiaris) is a domesticated descendant of the wolf.
See Growling and Dog
Dog bite
A dog bite is a bite upon a person or other animal by a dog.
English language
English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.
See Growling and English language
Felidae
Felidae is the family of mammals in the order Carnivora colloquially referred to as cats.
Formant
In speech science and phonetics, a formant is the broad spectral maximum that results from an acoustic resonance of the human vocal tract.
Ghost crab
Ghost crabs are semiterrestrial crabs of the subfamily Ocypodinae.
Grunt
Grunt, grunts or grunting may refer to.
Guttural
Guttural speech sounds are those with a primary place of articulation near the back of the oral cavity, where it is difficult to distinguish a sound's place of articulation and its phonation.
Horse
The horse (Equus ferus caballus) is a domesticated, one-toed, hoofed mammal.
Larynx
The larynx, commonly called the voice box, is an organ in the top of the neck involved in breathing, producing sound and protecting the trachea against food aspiration.
Leopard
The leopard (Panthera pardus) is one of the five extant species in the genus Panthera.
Ogg
Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation.
See Growling and Ogg
Onomatopoeia
Onomatopoeia (or rarely echoism) is a type of word, or the process of creating a word, that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes.
Paralanguage
Paralanguage, also known as vocalics, is a component of meta-communication that may modify meaning, give nuanced meaning, or convey emotion, by using techniques such as prosody, pitch, volume, intonation, etc.
Polar bear
The polar bear (Ursus maritimus) is a large bear native to the Arctic and nearby areas.
Roar (vocalization)
A roar is a type of animal vocalization that is loud, deep and resonating. Growling and roar (vocalization) are animal sounds.
See Growling and Roar (vocalization)
Slender seahorse
The slender seahorse or longsnout seahorse (Hippocampus reidi) is a species of fish in the family Syngnathidae that usually inhabits subtropical regions.
See Growling and Slender seahorse
Snarl
A snarl is a sound, often a growl or vicious utterance, often accompanied by a facial expression, where the upper lip is raised, and the nostrils widen, generally indicating hate, anger or pain.
Tiger
The tiger (Panthera tigris) is a member of the genus Panthera and the largest living cat species native to Asia.
Triglidae
Triglidae, commonly known as gurnards or sea robins, are a family of bottom-feeding scorpaeniform ray-finned fish.
Voiced dental, alveolar and postalveolar trills
The voiced alveolar trill is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages.
See Growling and Voiced dental, alveolar and postalveolar trills
See also
Animal sounds
- Australian Bird Calls
- Australian Frog Calls
- Bark (sound)
- Bellow (sound)
- Bird sounds
- Contact call
- Game call
- Gecker
- Girneys
- Growling
- Howling
- List of animal sounds
- Meow
- Neigh
- Pant-hoot
- Prusten
- Purr
- Roar (vocalization)
- Songs of Disappearance
- Sounds of North American Frogs
- Speech
- Stridulation
- Whale sounds