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4In fiction, whether the characters are in the WildWilderness, the HungryJungle, or just in a {{Suburbia}} backyard, animals make loud noises. Cats meow, dogs bark or howl, horses neigh or whinny, birds chirp, snakes hiss, and so on; exactly where, when, and how [[RuleOfPerception you'd expect]]...
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6Thing is, [[RealityIsUnrealistic an animal in that situation probably wouldn't make that noise... or any noise at all]].
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8Cats 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 three circumstances: to claim territory, to threaten potential predators, 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 (group hunting animals are a rare exception as they may try to scare prey toward another member of their group). In short, even animals that are highly vocal are still quiet most of the time, and generally only make sounds for specific reasons.
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10And that's not counting the fictionary tendency 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.
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12The trope title comes from any and all cases of ambient "jungle sounds" dubbed over scenes set out in ''[[GhibliHills the Wild]]''. The funny thing about this is that one of the appealing things about visiting wild places is how ''quiet'' they tend to be, especially during the daytime. The forest only tends to be interesting, sound-wise, at night (and even then, it's relatively speaking) or during a short period in spring when all the songbirds are staking out their nesting spots. Visit in winter and you'll usually "hear" eerie silence.
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14SuperTrope to NoisyDuck and RoarBeforeBeating. 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.
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16Then again, possibly the best reason to use this trope is for our heroes to [[OhCrap suddenly]] [[LawOfConservationOfDetail realize]] [[ItsQuietTooQuiet that it has suddenly gotten quiet.]]
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23* ''Anime/GaoGaiGar'': Galeon roars at every opportunity, just because it's dramatic. (Wouldn't you if you were a giant robot lion?) ''Sometimes'' it's justified, as the roar is being used to negate barriers.
24* Subverted in ''Anime/MazingerZ'' first episode. TheProfessor Dr. Kabuto's village -where he built the titular HumongousMecha- was set in Aokigahara, a forest at the base of Mount Fuji is ''infamous'' -- among other things -- because it is ''eerily'' silent due to the absence of wildlife. So when Dr. Kabuto heard noises near his house -- not long after his grandson told him that their maid had been murdered -- he knew there were intruders near and his life was in danger.
25* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'':
26** The episode "Chikorita's Big Upset" had dogs barking in the background during the scene where a Hitmonlee, a Hitmonchan, a Machoke, and a Primape find the titular Chikorita lost in the woods.
27** In ''Anime/PokemonKyuremVsTheSwordOfJustice'', contrasting its hissing cry in the games, Kyurem's roar has a bit of a leopard's growl in it.
28** In the ''Radio/PokemonTheBirthOfMewtwo'' radio drama, Miyamoto shows off a recording from a South America jungle that features very loud bird and insect Pokémon noises.
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32* ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'' has a roaring barracuda and a screeching anglerfish. Given their respective scenes are particularly heavy on NightmareFuel, this is most likely a case of RuleOfScary. The giant squid from ''WesternAnimation/FindingDory'' also utters a few guttural growls and snarls.
33* Played with in ''WesternAnimation/Madagascar1''; 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.
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37* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3k9Uov6Xlc extended version]] of Will Vinton's short ''Dinosaurs!'' is exceedingly surreal 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.)
38* A particularly jarring example occurs in the pirate movie ''Film/CutthroatIsland''. Among the ambient jungle noises on the small Caribbean island is a distinctly elephantine trumpeting. In the Caribbean. Once more: An elephant. In the Caribbean.
39* Much subtler - so much so that it has to be pointed out in the commentary - is in ''Franchise/JurassicPark'', in the scene where Nedry "fights" the dilophosaur. The commentary explicitly notes, no, there are no elephants on the island, it's just there to pull the viewer into the jungle setting. thirty seconds to shout at the top of its lungs.
40* [[GiantSpider Kumonga]]. [[Film/SonOfGodzilla Roaring spiders anyone?]] Kumonga sounded more like he was daintily sneezing. Kamacuras the giant praying mantis definitely screeched, and Megalon made a metallic grinding/shrieking roar. Also Mothra's ethereal chirps.
41* ''Film/LaraCroftTombRaiderTheCradleOfLife''. A ThreateningShark roars as it swims towards our heroine. She punches the shark on the nose causing it to whimper instead. [[WrestlerOfBeasts Then she grabs hold of its fin and rides it to the surface.]]
42* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' features some examples.
43** The classic, ''Film/Werewolf1996'', 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.
44** ''Film/CaveDwellers'', has roaring ''snakes'' (technically the real snakes merely growl. The giant rubber puppet snake roars).
45* ''Film/{{Prancer}}'' has it all too: an injured Reindeer who won't stay quiet and [[CuteButCacophonic bellows at maximum volume all the time]], and ''Spring'' Peepers chirping in the middle of a Christmas Eve [[DreamingOfAWhiteChristmas blizzard]]. A-ha.
46* ''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. (Unlike the other animals in the film, this animal is not from ChristmasTown, so there's no reason it shouldn't behave like an ordinary raccoon.)
47* Oddly enough, ''Literature/TarzanOfTheApes'' uses the lion roaring as it attacks, but seems to be aware that this can easily be a tactical mistake. The book claims that most animals are frozen in fear by the sound of the lion's roar, and only Tarzan himself, being human, is smart enough that the roar alerts him and encourages him to fight back. Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs wasn't one to let the actual facts about lions get in the way of the story--the bigger question here is, [[MisplacedWildlife what was a plains-dwelling animal like a lion doing in the middle of the jungle?]]
48* Possibly justified with ''Franchise/RoboCop'''s ED-209: the (presumably prerecorded) lion's roar probably works as a pretty decent criminal deterrent, and the pig's squealing is very useful when it's on trouble (ie, [[WeaksauceWeakness failing to take down stairs]])
49* Audrey II of ''Film/LittleShopOfHorrors'' is exceptionally vocal for a plant. Possibly justified in that it's a space alien.
50* There's an odd scene in ''Film/EvilDead2'' in which Ash hears a series of weird noises that segue between animal-like snorting, ambiguous screeching, and vaguely-mechanical sounds. The overall impression is that a carnivorous locomotive is circling the place.
51* The titular ''Film/{{Anaconda}}'' on occasion hisses. But if injured or in pursuit of our heroes, it will squeal and wail.
52* Though this is played with in ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing'' where, judging by their extremely cacophonic cries, Saruman's scary flock of avian spies are evidently Starlings (yes, they've invaded New Zealand too.)
53** They're supposed to be black crows, though.
54*** Technically they're [[http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Crebain crebain,]] which are described as similar to black crows. Being fictional birds there's no "correct" crebain call, but they still seem to make more noise than they should.
55*** Averted in the book, as the crebain are silent, except for a solitary croak as the flock passes over the concealed Fellowship.
56* In ''Film/{{Avatar}}'', the Thanator (scary black panther thing) that chases Jake into the jungle keeps roaring at him. In frustration? Worse than that, though: it keeps ''pausing'' to roar at him. A predator that did that would starve.
57%% * ''Film/TheWolfman2010''
58* The titular ape of the ''Film/KingKong'' movies is incredibly noisy, frequently letting out monstrous roars. At least in the [[Film/KingKong1933 original film]], they used the roars of big cats such as lions and tigers rather than actual ape sounds. To be fair, he is a fictional species of giant ape rather than an actual gorilla.
59* ''Film/{{Python}}'': The snake roars a lot, using recycled sound FX from ''Film/{{Anaconda}}''.
60* ''Film/TheDarkCrystal'': Most of the scenes of the flora and fauna of Thra are rife with animal/insect sound and there's a plant with seed pods that take off like little copters with an audible 'pop.'
61* ''Film/{{Them}}'': The film's giant lung-free ants constantly shriek and chitter. Admittedly, it does make them [[RuleOfCool more creepy]], and it can be handwaved that they've gone through other mutations besides their size increase.
62* In ''Film/MyCousinVinny'', Vinny and Lisa take advantage of the DA's offer of using his hunting cabin in the woods to try and get a good night's sleep. Unfortunately for Vinny, a Screech Owl lives right outside the cabin.
63* Harry's commandeered police horse in ''Film/TrueLies'' snorts, grunts, or nickers at every gesture.
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67* In the children's book ''Literature/PeaceAtLast'', Mr Bear cannot sleep because of Mrs Bear's snoring. He tries sleeping in other places, such as in the garden, only to find it full of the noises made by animals; he also tries the car, but is disturbed by the dawn chorus of the singing birds.
68* Subverted in ''Literature/TailchasersSong''. The AnimalTalk used throughout most of the book is mainly non-verbal, as mentioned in Author's Notes. [[CommonTongue Common Singing]] is cross-species and is thus mainly body language and gestures. Higher Singing is species-specific, is rarely used, and (in the case of cat's) consists of yowling.
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72* ''Series/Extraterrestrial2005'': The stalkers are extremely noisy beings, loudly screeching, cawing and croaking at all times, even when trying to find prey.
73* In the 1998 mini-series of ''Literature/PeterBenchleysCreature'', the eponymous SharkMan somehow manages to roar while underwater.
74* ''Franchise/StarTrek'': The series often have American robins singing gaily in the background on various alien planets. So ''that's'' where they migrate in the winter...
75* CBS used to pipe in birdsong as "ambient sound" on their golf broadcasts. They stopped after an infamous instance where birdwatchers called them on the fact that the birds in a particular broadcast were not native to the location of the tournament.
76* The History Channel aired a program about a black African mummy found in the Sahara, in which footage of a contemporary African cattle-herding village was used to simulate what the dead boy's community might have been like. Unfortunately, a rooster is heard crowing in the background, and while the mummified boy's culture had acquired goats and cattle from the Middle East, chickens (an Asian species) wouldn't make it to Africa for another few thousand years.
77* ''Series/{{Community}}'': "[[Recap/CommunityS1E24EnglishAsASecondLanguage English as a Second Language]]" puts nature recordings over the Pa. One of the tracks is entitled Antelope Slaughter at Indutu.
78* In the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode where Buffy gets magically turned into a rat, a black cat stalks her, yowling repeatedly. Buffy also contains an example of the "everything that's dangerous roars" variety, as vampires often roar like lions when attacking, including [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Angel]] and [[HeelFaceTurn Spike]].
79* Documentaries are prone to putting in noises that aren't there in the actual footage in an attempt to be "more interesting". One example is a Smithsonian work that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCQrEdhbGro featured Black Mambas being hatched]], complete with random hissing.
80* ''Series/HappyDays'': One episode finds the gang camping in the woods. At the very end, the air is filled with raucous animal noises of all varieties, getting louder. Fonzie yells "COOL IT!" and all sounds instantly stop.
81* ''Series/{{Serengeti}}'' puts an emphasis on animal noises. It has a lot of flies buzzing, lions growling, zebras snorting, etc.
82* ''Series/{{Lost}}'': A subplot during "[[Recap/LostS2E14OneOfUs One of Us]]" has Sawyer trying to find and kill a noisy tree frog that aggravates his headache.
83* One episode of ''Series/McHalesNavy'' sees the crew of the 73 trying to drive a fictional "Griffle Bird" off of their base because the noise keeps waking them up. The bird is clearly a Toucan but they dubbed the voice of a Kookaburra over it. Bear in mind that the show takes place on an island in the South Pacific, the Toucan is native to the tropical regions of the Americas while Kookaburras are from Australia.
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87* "Jungle Fever" by Music/DickDale (available as a bonus track on ''Music/SurfersChoice'') evokes this trope, as the band members imitate the sound of a kookaburra.
88* Parodied in the song "Tarzan and Jane" by the Danish band Toy-Box, which opens with a chorus of "jungle" sounds, including various birds singing, large cats growling, monkeys calling, ''sheep bleating'', and elephants trumpeting.
89* Music/TheyMightBeGiants' spoken-word piece "Turtle Songs of North America" is all about this sort of thing. It's hilariously bizarre.
90* The end of the song "The Black Mare" by {{Music/Dragonland}} includes animal sounds[[note]]Calls of common loons[[/note]] to show how the protagonists enter into Val'inthor, the [[GhibliHills forest]] [[HiddenElfVillage where elves live]].
91* Jungle is a subgenre of electronic music that often incorporates animal sounds (birds chirping, big cats roaring, etc.)
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95* ''Radio/TheFoundationTrilogy'': In "Part Seven: The Mule Finds", the farm animals are noisier than the humans when the characters visit a pig farm. Pigs don't usually squeal and grunt constantly.
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99* Averted in a way with ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'''s Tyranids. An Imperial Guard soldier noted the worst part of seeing an advancing Tyranid army was the total lack of vocal sound. No battle cries, wounded soldiers or shouted orders, just the tramp of clawed feet and rustling of chitin.
100** Except when another author writes them and they roar or hiss or go "skreee!". Even Lictors, famed for being extremely stealthy tend to let loose an ear-shattering "skreee!" on occasion.
101* Similar to the Warhammer example, Skelebots in ''TabletopGame/{{Rifts}}'' can only vocalize a few prerecorded phrases like "Surrender or be destroyed" or "Does not compute." They coordinate attacks entirely through radio signals and use laser rifles, so in battle, there's not even the sound of gunfire. The book mentions just how [[NothingIsScarier terrifying]] it is to have a couple dozen robots that look like black skeletons silently move in on a target with deadly intent.
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105* Metal Gear Rex and Ray roared like ''Franchise/JurassicPark'' T-Rexes in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' series. The {{Novelization}} of the first game [[LampshadeHanging put a cover on the lightbulb]] of how silly it is (and Snake attributed the Rex roar to Otacon being an {{Otaku}}).
106** The Shagohod even gets into the act in Snake Eater, making a lot of noises that simply cannot be explained by metal parts moving around.
107*** And then there are the Gekkos, which run around [[Narm/MetalGear making cow noises]] in ''Guns of the Patriots''.
108** In their appearance in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Brawl'', REX makes a high-pitched mechanical scraping screech while RAY does a somewhat quieter keening shriek. Gekkos still moo.
109* In ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'', if you're a Controller and happen to have Plant Control in your power set, congratulations! You're the proud owner of roaring man-eating plants and vines.
110* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterPC'' 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.
111* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' is a repeat offender. If it attacks you it will make a very large amount of noise, even if it lacks a mouth to roar at you with. Possibly an [[AcceptableBreaksFromReality Acceptable Break From Reality]], as one of the functions of the sound is to inform the player that they've just aggroed something.
112** What sound do [=WoW=] orcas make when attacking? Humpback whale song.
113** Devilsaurs, the TRexpy of [=WoW=], are big sneaky bastards.
114* ''Videogame/RedDeadRedemption'' has wolves, coyotes, and cougars that are always happy to inform you of their presence in the vicinity by barking, howling or roaring.
115* ''VideoGame/TheWitness'': When walking around the jungle, you'll hear lots of bird sounds like chirps. Subverted in that, as you'll soon realize, they're actually artificial sounds created by speakers placed around the area.
116* In ''[[VideoGame/UruAgesBeyondMyst Uru Live]]'', one can hear [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screaming_piha screaming]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW6Ly7fSKTQ pihas]] on Jalak. This technically makes them (in-universe) birds of New Mexico, and of any other place where people have instances of Jalak.
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120* The ''WesternAnimation/{{VeggieTales}}'' episode "Josh and the Big Wall" contains birdsong and chirping crickets ''in the middle of the desert.'' {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in the commentary.
121* Very evident in the Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse:
122** Poison Ivy seems to have an army of impossibly vocal plants. If they've got a flytrap-like mouth, they'll roar or scream. If they've got [[CombatTentacles slithery vines]], they'll hiss.
123** Both Franchise/{{Batman}} and Franchise/{{Superman}} fought a robot [[TRexpy Stock Large Theropod]] (tm) on two different occasions. Both 'bots helpfully roared. (And besides that, they acted like real animals with none of the handicaps robotic animals tend to have in RealLife. [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots Ridiculously Animal Robots]]?)
124** The otherwise eerie ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' episode where an animate '''carpet''' rears up and roars.
125* The bats that flutter across the screen at the start of the opening credits for ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'' all chitter their little heads off. Disturbed bats generally book it without emitting cries that humans can hear, as they're too busy echolocating so they don't run into one another.
126* ''WesternAnimation/Primal2019'' has a lot of creatures roaring or screeching just for the heck of it. Spear himself isn't immune to this, often yelling when he's fighting. In the first episode, for example, a pterosaur trying to go for Spear screeches at nothing before flying away.
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134* 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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138* ''Film/SpyHard'' has an agent sneaking into the enemy base in a noisy jungle. As she enters through the back door, the camera pans over to someone making animal sounds while holding a book of wild animal calls. Dinosaurs are included in the noises.
139* In ''Film/{{Congo}}'' as our intrepid heroes pass through howler monkey territory in the jungle. As their name implies, howler monkeys are on the chatty side. Also a case of MisplacedWildlife as Howler Monkeys are New World Monkeys, which means that our heroes who are traveling in DarkestAfrica, have stumbled upon some Howler Monkeys that are lost by a hemisphere.
140* Due to the sheer over-the-top amount of sounds, likely parodied in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom''. It's almost like they planned for a lengthy sojourn in the forest and gathered all the sounds, but left with one scene simply crammed them all in.
141* George's ''Indiana Jones'' fantasy at the start of ''Film/{{UHF}}''. If you listen closely, you can hear cows, cats, and dogs among the cacophony.
142* ''Film/AirplaneIITheSequel'' includes chirping crickets and peeping frogs in a nighttime establishing shot of Alpha Beta base. Which happens to be ''on the Moon''.
143* In ''Film/SleepyHollow'', Ichabod Crane and Young Masbeth, while searching for the woods comes across a eerie patch. Masbeth asks Ichabod what does he hear. When Ichabod mentions that he hears nothing, Masbeth says that's what wrong: the woods should be filled with the sounds of the nocturnal animals.
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147* ''Literature/{{Timeline}}'' by Creator/MichaelCrichton has our protagonists transported to a forest in a medieval setting, they are all shocked as to how quiet the forest really is. In the film adaptation, everything imaginable in the forest makes a loud noise.
148* In ''Ivory Extraordinaire'', an alternate Earth dominated by amphibians is considered creepy because the native tetrapods don't have voices. Ironic, considering how frogs and toads are among the few taxa that ''can'' be as noisy as depicted in film but justified because the beasts on Amphibia are more akin to Permian-era labyrinthodonts and the like.
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152* ''Radio/JohnFinnemoresSouvenirProgramme:'' Invoked for the purposes of parody in an "Accidental Archers" sketch, where one of The Men Who Always Sound Tired is tending to a cow, who moos every now and then (provided by Carrie Quinlan just going "moo") so people will know he's outside and tending to a cow. Except when he's rhythmically thumping at wooden objects. Still, it does help one of the Incredibly Posh Men figure out he must be working when he passes by.
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156* Brief aversion in ''VideoGame/JurassicParkTheGame'', when the ''UsefulNotes/TyrannosaurusRex'' is shown rather quietly eating a ''Parasaurolophus'' in contrast to its constant roaring and growling throughout the rest of the game.
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160* Creator/CartoonNetwork ran a spoof starring WesternAnimation/YogiBear, where a director filmed ''[[BearsAreBadNews When Bears Attack]]'' with a sleepy Yogi and Boo Boo - for instance, Yogi's yawning was shot and played over with the roar of [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Bowser]].
161* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': The episode "The Swamp" by and large averts this, save for the occasional call of some kind of swamp creature. And really, not even the racket of a swamp can match [[TeamPet Appa's]] bellowing for sound.
162* Subverted ''and'' played straight in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheLionGuard'', which featured a herd of zebras whinnying like horses together with the usual high-pitched "barking" sounds they normally make. While it's possible for zebras to whinny, they sound nothing like a horse.
163* In the 1960 ''WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}}'' short "Popeye in the Woods", Popeye can't sleep because of the racket made by the wildlife at night. His companion, Wimpy, sleeps soundly.
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167* Inversion: Contrary to popular belief, fish actually make a lot of sound with a surprising variety. However, the human ear isn't very trained to hear these.
168* Also inverted for crickets and {{cicad|ianRhythm}}as during the mating season. In summers where you've got multiple species of cicadas up, expect to want earplugs. For good measure, an upside-down or otherwise trapped one can make a ''definite'' racket through panicking '''and''' hiss like a snake.
169* Go into any wooded area during spring/mating season. Try to take a nap. See how difficult it is.
170** No need for a forest if there are street cats or, god forbid, foxes in your neighborhood. Or even worse, raccoons. They don't make noise often but let two of them get in a fight in your yard or on your roof...
171* If you live in the United States or Canada near a pond, spring and summer are extremely noisy times of the year. Probably the two most recognizable are spring peepers (itty bitty frogs with ''loud'' high-pitched calls), which emerge in early spring and bullfrogs in the summer.
172* Coyotes when running down a large prey animal. The majority of the pack forms a semi-circle and chase the prey while yipping and howling. The prey flees from the sound, ultimately heading into an area where a silent coyote is waiting in ambush.
173* Canada geese are known for honking in flight. But if you go near their nest they will HISS like a pissed-off cat.
174* Death's Head Moths can squeak by forcing air out of their bodies when irritated. Yes, you read that correctly. "Angry moth noises" are actually a thing.
175* Horrifyingly subverted in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aokigahara Aokigahara]], a wood located at the base of Mount Fuji in Japan. The forest is empty of wildlife and the trees are so dense they block the wind, so it is eerily silent... except for the cries of suicidal people at night.
176* Contrary to [[StockSoundEffects popular use]], not all non-''{{Panthera|Awesome}}'' cats can let out the shrill yowl of ''Puma concolor'' (the cougar); the cheetah (''Acinonyx jubatus'') actually ''chirps'', for an example. Also of note is that not even all ''Panthera''-genus cats can roar like tigers; leopards (''Panthera pardus'') make grunting noises, jaguars (''Panthera onca'') and tigers (''Panthera tigris'') are both themselves StockSoundEffects, but neither yowls like a cougar. Lion roaring (''Panthera leo'') sounds more like moaning than the tiger and jaguar roars the movies would have you think lions had ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXkGSc6d0xQ here's an example]]).
177* This is one of the main reasons why many people dislike seagulls. If a seagull sees you with food, it will immediately start squawking for its share, which soon attracts every other seagull in the vicinity.
178* Rats, as mentioned above, always seem to squeak in human-audible tones in fiction. There ''is'' one RealLife situation in which a rat's ultrasonic clicks, chortles and chitters dip down into frequencies that humans can hear: unfortunately for the rat, that's when it's got ratty laryngitis from a respiratory infection.
179* Even we humans could be considered a major aversion: even when there are no other humans around to communicate with, we'll habitually talk, sing, or hum to ourselves. And that's when we're not chattering away to our pets, our houseplants, our cars, our imaginary friends, our reflections...
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