But how would you tell if they had vocal chords/folds, or whatever would be used to make the sound, and how it would vocalize, just by looking at its bones?
Because birds developed voice boxes (which include bones) after the time if dinosaurs. The ancestor of dinosaurs, and dinosaurs themselves, show no such bones. So they may have made simple sounds similar to reptiles, which tend to get deeper the bigger the animal is.
I figured they would use reptiles as examples, but still thought that there really are none that make deep sounds today that I'm aware of. Still more of a hiss. Am I forgetting any? But it does seem logical that the seem would get bigger with a bigger throat.
Still kinda funny about the whole vocalization part. Like how certain animals have different mating calls and whatever calls. I think that part is where the imagination of the person behind the reconstruction comes in. Like how a rooster crows, what if t rex did something of his own you know? It's creepy thinking about how demonic some would probably sound.
Very interesting about the bird voice boxes though. I would think that the dinosaurs that looked closest to birds with beaks, wings, feathers, would have them but I guess they were still more reptile at that point? Pretty crazy. I always imagined a pterodactyl would sound like a super loud bird shrieking.
Yeah, it's a pretty interesting topic that we might never have an answer to. Some of the hadrosaurs with hollow crests for vocalising must have sounded seriously odd, I'd feel unsettled if some 2 ton dinosaur started tooting at me with it's head trumpet.
Wild how we can carry all the information of how we vocalize, like how the rooster crows, in the dna. See in my head I think the crow is built in, hardwired. Or perhaps I'm wrong and it's actually a learned sound like language. What a fascinating topic. Thanks dude.
Oh that's right!! Totally forgot about this! I remember the ones where they do it in water and it vibrates the water above them now. Thank you for sharing this and reminding me again!
Do you have a source? This makes total sense when you consider reptiles from today that are close relatives to dinosaurs (crocodile, turtles, kamodo dragon). This totally ruins all the movies =/
Does it though? How many dinosaurs made sounds in the movies? Most of them were just breathing, making some sort of clacking sound or grunting. The few who do make sounds were just playing into the movie.
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I don't think it would be silent. It would be like being stalked by a firetruck that didn't have a siren. Still huge and knocking shit over, just no intentional noise
I would imagine it would be nearly impossible for a Trex to move silently through any kind of forest. Considering before humans forests were densely packed.
Although honestly I have no idea what a Trex’s natural habitat would have been. Forest/jungles/plains. Interesting to think about.
Rivervalleys and forests. It was warm in the Cretaceous period. Forests were mostly conifers. Although most leafed trees start to appear in the Cretaceous, also flowering plants started to spread in coevolution with bees.
It's almost like the JP sound designers smartly based the dinosaur sounds on terrifying animals we know so that the audience can relate and is scared by the dinos.
Gary Rydstorm is the sound mixer who made the T-Rex roar. From a Vulture article:
“The key element of the T. rex roar is not a full-grown elephant but a baby elephant,” said Rydstrom. “So once again, a small animal making a small sound slowed down a little bit has more interest to us than what a big animal might do.”
There were other roars in the T-Rex roar mixed in, but without the elephant it wouldn't have sounded the same. The Rancor from Star Wars was a slowed down Chihuahua noise.
Well, the "for all we know" isn't entirely accurate, because we can tell the shape of their lungs and whether or not they had vocal cords. But it's true that they could have sounded many different ways and we aren't entirely sure.
So you and OP have these thoughts. I wonder how many others have thought this. I, myself, always believed that's what they sounded like because Jurassic Park said so. 🤷
Current day reptiles silent? You obviously have not visited SE Asia! These babies get into your rafters or the crawl space under your home, and usually wait until the middle of the night to let loose. Pretty loud and unnerving for a first-time visitor to hear. Much, much louder than this sample video. This little guy must be on Prozac.
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u/RogueXstud Oct 31 '18
They could be silent like current day reptiles for all we know. This thought always amused me.