History Main / NoisyNature

* Played with in ''WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}}''; the main characters are animals in a New York City zoo. Fair enough - but in the background are generic jungle noises. The cast goes to bed... and someone yells to [[LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn turn off the ambiance]]. When that happens, a generic New York City background noise replaces it, complete with police car/firetruck/ambulance siren wailing. Alex the lion then yawns and relaxes and goes to sleep. Surprisingly, this is TruthInTelevision, since many zoos do have random jungle white noise played throughout the park to make the guests (and animals) feel more immersed.

* ''Film/{{Elf}}'': Buddy encounters a raccoon that chitters five times. When he tries to hug it, it attacks him and lets out a screech that sounds like a monkey. (This raccoon is not in the MagicalLand that he is from, so there's no reason it shouldn't behave like an ordinary raccoon.)

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* The seagulls in ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'' are relatively sedate until there's food involved, at which point a cacophony of "Mine! Mine! Mine!" goes up as they fight over it. As anyone who's interacted with seagulls will attest, this is spot-on for the scavenger birds.

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* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}''

** In the fifteenth ''Pokemon'' movie, contrasting its hissing cry in the games, Kyurem's roar has a bit of a leopard's growl in it.

* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3k9Uov6Xlc extended version]] of Will Vinton's short ''Dinosaurs!'' is [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs exceedingly trippy]] for an educational film. The trippiness almost ''excuses'' the fact that it's got Loons in a forest '''and''' Ravens at night. There's also a bit of an Everything Roars thing going on as the clip includes distorted versions of both calls made to sound like screams. (Bonus: DragonsAreDinosaurs '''and''' WhatMeasureIsANonCute! You may not want to watch it if those tropes bother you a lot.)

* Played with in ''WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}}''; the main characters are animals in a New York City zoo. Fair enough - but in the background are generic jungle noises. The cast goes to bed... and someone yells to [[LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn turn off the ambiance]]. When that happens, a generic New York City background noise replaces it, complete with sirens. Alex the lion then yawns and relaxes and goes to sleep. Surprisingly, this is TruthInTelevision, since many zoos do have random jungle white noise played throughout the park to make the guests (and animals) feel more immersed.

SuperTrope to NoisyDuck. May disrupt SuspensionOfDisbelief for tropers who know their stuff about animals. Not to be confused with CuteButCacophonic. Noisy forests also tend to be places where [[EverythingTryingToKillYou everything is trying to kill you]]. See also MisplacedWildlife, AllAnimalsAreDogs, JunglesSoundLikeKookaburras, BugBuzz, SillyAnimalSound, and IncorrectAnimalNoise. Use of StockSoundEffects is a common culprit. Possibly related to SmallReferencePools. Compare SpookyAnimalSounds.

SuperTrope to NoisyDuck. May disrupt SuspensionOfDisbelief for tropers who know their stuff about animals. Not to be confused with CuteButCacophonic. Noisy forests also tend to be places where [[EverythingTryingToKillYou everything is trying to kill you]]. See also MisplacedWildlife, AllAnimalsAreDogs, JunglesSoundLikeKookaburras, BugBuzz, SillyAnimalSound, and IncorrectAnimalNoise. Use of StockSoundEffects is a common culprit. Possibly related to SmallReferencePools.

Cats tend to be quiet unless they want something, and the same goes for horses and dogs unless they are excited by something. Rats and mice rarely make human-audible noises. Owls, hawks, and other birds intentionally make noise under exactly two circumstances: to claim territory, and to communicate with other members of their family or social group. The same generally goes for other animals that can make sounds. An animal who has been hurt in all likelihood will not react vocally ''at all'', except for maybe one brief yelp at the moment of injury -- it's [[EverythingTryingToKillYou not smart]] to announce to every predator in the area that you're an easy meal. And all the fictional predators who [[RoarBeforeBeating let out a blood-curdling roar/scream/whatever]] as they stalk their prey are idiots, because the whole point of a roar is to announce your presence, intimidate whatever is in front of you, and hope it'll run away. Do that while hunting and you're bound to lose your lunch.

In fiction, whether the characters are in the WildWilderness, the HungryJungle, or just in a {{Suburbia}} backyard, animals make loud noises. Dogs bark or howl, birds chirp, snakes hiss, and so on; exactly where, when, and how [[RuleOfPerception you'd expect]]...

In fiction, whether the characters are in the WildWlderness, the HungryJungle, or just in a {{Suburbia}} backyard, animals make loud noises. Dogs bark or howl, birds chirp, snakes hiss, and so on; exactly where, when, and how [[RuleOfPerception you'd expect]]...

In fiction, animals are pretty loud. Dogs bark, birds chirp, snakes hiss, and so on; exactly where, when, and how [[RuleOfPerception you'd expect]]...

* Very evident in the Franchise/{{DCAU}}:

->''"Children of the night! Shut up!"''
-->-- '''{{Dracula}}''', ''Film/LoveAtFirstBite''

* In the 1998 adaptation of ''Literature/PeterBenchleysCreature'', the eponymous ManShark somehow manages to roar while underwater.

Cats tend to be quiet unless they want something, and the same goes for horses and dogs unless they are excited by something. Rats and mice rarely make human-audible noises. Owls only hoot to announce they've claimed such and such a spot and the same generally goes for every bird's song, every canine's howl, and so on. An animal who has been hurt in all likelihood will not react vocally ''at all'', except for maybe one brief yelp at the moment of injury -- it's [[EverythingTryingToKillYou not smart]] to announce to every predator in the area that you're an easy meal. And all the fictional predators who [[RoarBeforeBeating let out a blood-curdling roar/scream/whatever]] as they stalk their prey are idiots, because the whole point of a roar is to announce your presence, intimidate whatever is in front of you, and hope it'll run away. Do that while hunting and you're bound to lose your lunch.

** The classic, ''Film/{{Werewolf}}'', which takes place in Flagstaff, Arizona. It has every variation of this trope: Wolf-people who never shut up, growling and howling at everything. Red-tailed Hawks crying at ''night''. A crappy Werewolf puppet who ''makes the calls of a hawk and a bat'' ([=WTF=] seems sadly inefficient here). And a soundtrack that uses every one of these animal calls as its {{Scare Chord}}s.

* Possibly justified with ''Franchise/RoboCop'''s ED-209: the (presumably prerecorded) lion's roar probably works as a pretty decent criminal deterrent.

The thing is, [[RealityIsUnrealistic an animal in that situation in real life would probably be quiet]].

Cats tend to be quiet unless they want something and the same goes for horses and dogs, though they will whinny and bark if they are excited by something. Rats and mice rarely make human-audible noises. Owls only hoot to announce they've claimed such and such a spot and the same generally goes for every bird's song, every canine's howl, and so on. An animal who has been hurt in all likelihood will not react vocally ''at all'', except for maybe one brief yelp at the moment of injury -- it's [[EverythingTryingToKillYou too dangerous]] to announce your incapacitation by sitting there crying for aid. And all the fictional predators who [[RoarBeforeBeating let out a blood-curdling roar/scream/whatever]] as they stalk their prey are idiots because the whole point of a roar is to let you know that something big and dangerous is nearby and you'd better run.

A particularly jarring subtrope of the above is the tendency, in fiction, for ''[[RoarBeforeBeating everything]]'' [[RoarBeforeBeating to roar]]. Say your hero is being attacked by something non-human and possibly even outside the animal kingdom; a plant or a robot or something. But we still know it's angry and very dangerous. Why? Because the thing is roaring as it fights. It might also scream in pain if the hero manages to fight back. {{Man Eating Plant}}s, despite [[ArtisticLicenseBiology lacking in the vocal cord--or lung--department]], will roar, scream and hiss just in case you didn't know they were dangerous. In a similarly helpful manner {{Giant Spider}}s and BigCreepyCrawlies scream or hiss and there are at least two documented cases (in fiction, of course) of roaring ''sharks''. And if you've got to fight a '''robot''' that looks like a particular animal, you can be damn well certain that robot will make the sounds of that animal.

May disrupt SuspensionOfDisbelief for tropers who know their stuff about animals. Not to be confused with CuteButCacophonic. Noisy forests also tend to be places where [[EverythingTryingToKillYou everything is trying to kill you]]. See also MisplacedWildlife, AllAnimalsAreDogs, JunglesSoundLikeKookaburras, BugBuzz, SillyAnimalSound, and IncorrectAnimalNoise. Use of StockSoundEffects is a common culprit. Possibly related to SmallReferencePools.

* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter PC'' has man-eating plants as [[TheGoomba the first and most common enemy type]] encountered, and true to the trope they will repeatedly roar, growl and squeal every second they're onscreen.