Artificial Lion-Roaring Contests [Podcast 49]

Artificial lion-roaring contests overwhelm this week’s Improbable Research podcast.

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This week, Marc Abrahams  —with dramatic readings by Jean Berko Gleason — tells about:

Lion-roaring, and listeners — Grinnell, Jon, and Karen McComb [pictured here] (2001). ‘Roaring and Social Communication in African Lions: The Limitations Imposed by Listeners.’ Animal Behaviour 62 (1): 93–98.
Lion-roaring, and female lions — McComb, Karen, Craig Packer, and Anne Pusey (1994). ‘Roaring and Numerical Assessment in Contests Between Groups of Female Lions, Panthera leo.’ Animal Behaviour 47 (2): 379–87
Lion-roaring, and male lions — Grinnell, Jon, Craig Packer, and Anne E. Pusey (1995). ‘Cooperation in Male Lions: Kinship, Reciprocity or Mutualism?’ Animal Behaviour 49 (1): 95–105.

The mysterious John Schedler or the shadowy Bruce Petschek perhaps did the sound engineering this week.

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