Sea lions are charming, playful and ear-splitting! A staple at most zoos and aquariums, sea lions are noted for their aquatic acrobatics and distinctive noises. They enjoy the authority to compose sounds underwater and above the surface besides, and these sounds come in a combo of forms.
The most recognized tumult they cook up are called "barks" due to the short, blaring, and abrasive feature they plam with dog barks. Sea lions handle barks to convey assorted messages to Everyone other, affection territorial marks and mating status. Person sea lions utilize the bark to fundamental aim their territories during mating seasons and and when defending their extent. Non-alpha males, or the less compelling males, tend to bark besides than the alpha males all over them as a wealth to bell keeping to themselves.
Female sea lions also bark on the contrary less Often. Their bark is chunk of a series of several threatening noises they exhale when defending their adolescent. This occurs most Frequently good before, or just after, giving birth to their pups.
When a female is trying to locate her pup among a group of sea lions, she and the pup will essentially play a game of "marco/polo," with the mother emitting a trumpet noise and the pup responding with a bleating sound similar to the noise a lamb makes. It is unclear why sea lions play this game, since mothers and babies will recognize each other also by sight and smell. Baby sea lions, called pups, are unable to make any other noise but the lamb-like bleating and high-pitched squeal until they have matured into adulthood. Their high and squeaky noises add color and depth to the overall sound of a sea lion colony, or group of sea lions, which are considered by scientists to be one of the loudest and most vocal mammal species on the planet. For examples of what sea lions sound like, visit the link below.
Sea lions also make growling, grunting and trumpet-like noises in other situations to convey with each other. The sequence of threat-noises, those the female vocalizes when she is in the aggressive pre/post-partem stages, are composed of barks, grunts and squeals. She begins by barking, then raises her noise to a loud, shrill, squeal before progressing to a low-register grunt or purring sound before ending the warning with a menacing growl. This tells other sea lions and, to a certain extent, curious humans, to keep their distance as she prepares to give birth or care for her infant pup.
