Species
Lion
Territorial broadcast calling and coordinated pride behaviour, where the interesting signal is usually the group response rather than the call.
Wild species
- • Never leave a vehicle near lions and never approach on foot.
- • Do not play recorded roars or calls. Playback draws animals toward people and is prohibited in this product.
- • A crouched posture with a fixed forward stare is a stalking posture. Withdraw immediately.
Acoustic profile
What a recording device must capture.
Fundamental frequency
15–700 Hz
Meaningful spectrum
10 Hz – 8.0 kHz
Recommended sample rate
48.0 kHz
Individual profiles
Supported
Capture note
Roar fundamentals sit near 40–60 Hz with strong harmonic structure carrying several kilometres. Distant roars arrive low-pass filtered by the atmosphere, which the pipeline treats as a range cue rather than as a change in the call.
Signature signals
What an experienced observer looks for in this species.
Roaring bout
audioSequence of full roars tapering into grunts.
Tail-tip flicking
videoRising arousal; often precedes a change of posture.
Head-low stalk
videoLowered head, level shoulders, slow deliberate gait.
Behaviours
Categories the engine may report — and the ones it must never report for this species.
Supported
Excluded for this species
Excluded categories are removed before ranking, so they can never win on a superficial signal match.
Taxonomy
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Carnivora
- family
- Felidae
- genus
- Panthera
- species
- Panthera leo
Body-language channels
Only these are weighed for this species.
Limitations
- • Roars are territorial broadcasts, not directed messages, and cannot be read as a response to the observer.
- • Distance strongly changes the recorded spectrum and is rarely known accurately.
Species adapter
Adapter
lion-adapter@0.1.0
Provenance
Priors derived from published Panthera leo roaring-bout and pride-behaviour literature.