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Humans Can Size One Another Up with a Roar

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Scientific American

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4.2639 Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2018

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Listeners to a person letting loose with a roar can accurately estimate the size and formidability or the human noise maker. Christopher Intagliata reports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:05.8

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0:33.6

This is Scientific American's 60-second science. I'm Christopher in Taliatta.

0:39.7

The animal kingdom is crowded with species that use sound,

0:43.5

growls and bellows and roars to signal sighs.

0:47.2

Dogs do it.

0:48.9

Red deer do it.

0:50.9

Cowalas do it.

0:54.6

And now we can add humans to that list.

0:57.8

Because a new study suggests we can size up other people by the sound of their roar alone.

1:03.6

First, researchers took the circumference of 61 men's and women's biceps, measured their grip strength and their height.

1:10.1

Then, they told them to let

1:11.5

loose a roar. I've probably described it as the most hellish version of Groundhog Day that you

1:17.0

can think of. Jordan Raine, a behavioral ethologist at the University of Sussex. If you just imagine

1:22.1

30 actors in training coming into a small room one after another and roaring at you,

1:28.4

yeah, it was an experience, that's for sure.

1:30.4

His team then played those roars back to a separate group of male and female listeners,

1:34.7

who'd also been measured for strength and size.

1:37.4

They found that men correctly rated other men as substantially stronger than them,

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