Basic Trope: Animals in fiction don't make the correct noises.
- Straight: Jake the Jaguar often lets out mountain lion growls instead of Jaguar noises.
- Exaggerated:
- Sam the Shark lets out a grizzly bear's roar, when sharks don't even roar!.
- None of the animals sound correctly in the media.
- Downplayed: Jake the Jaguar roars like a tiger, which is at least close to how a jaguar sounds.
- Justified:
- Jake has the vocal chords of a mountain lion.
- Jake knows 'foreign' languages and may even be an Omniglot.
- Jake is part mountain lion, and part jaguar.
- Inverted: ???
- Subverted:
- Jake the Jaguar makes a cougar roar, but it turns out, he was a cougar in disguise!
- Jake turns out to be lip syncing to track 12note of Sounds of The Serengeti, as it's now stuck on the 5.1s - 5.2s portion.
- Double Subverted: ... only for another Jaguar to show up and make a puma roar.
- Parodied: Silly Animal Sound
- Zig Zagged: Jake makes both Mountain Lion and Jaguar sounds, as well as a few calls from other Panthera cats.
- Averted: Jake sounds like a Jaguar, because he is one.
- Enforced:
- The producers don't know what the animal they are researching sounds like, so they instead make up calls or use calls that best fit the animal.
- The actual sound the animal makes is too jarring, so a more popular sound is used instead.
- The producers don't have jaguar sounds in their audio library, and they can't afford to add them.
- Rule of Cool
- Rule of Funny
- Lampshaded: "Why does Jake always roar like a mountain lion instead of a jaguar?"
- Invoked: A mad scientist gives Jake the vocal chords of a Cougar.
- Exploited: Alice, Jake's owner, uses Jake to voice act Cougars in the cartoon she is working on.
- Defied: Jake refuses to roar like a cougar.
- Discussed: "I know, he just CAN'T sound correctly!"
- Conversed: "This show knows nothing about how Jaguars sound! I don't reccommend it!"
- Implied: Alice told Bob she was running from a fierce Jaguar, but we don't see or hear the Jaguar on-screen.
Listen to the frogs go "ribbit" at Incorrect Animal Noise.
