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the 2017 King Kong movie is set in an uncharted island where animals have been completely out of proportion over the last eight years this mega monsters seemingly become larger in each film more fears and visually this large beasts are loosely based of real animals but what about the sounds they make we want to find out how accurately sounds are what would a giant beast actually sound like the very first thing that you have to say up front absolutely is we know we're not making documentary that's Stewart Sumida a paleontologist and animal Anatomy specialists worked on Kong Skull Island and has advised filmmakers on dozens of movies so people can quibble all they want about the biology of the creatures in some cases like the lizard eruption things are completely fictitious creatures but you want them to feel like they live in the universe that the movie is portraying and in the case of the title character there is no eight that looks like after she walks like a man but he's not a gorilla he's King Kong so he's the different species first the movie is the point he and others make is that these creatures don't actually exist but they still need a sound that feels real or even if they did once exist like the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park what they do is sometimes I'm realistic you ever noticed in the movies Jurassic Park and others when they're chasing down human prey they roar at it which is ridiculous he's right that's Phillips Center associate professor of biology at Fayetteville State University no predator vocalizes when hunting they hunt as silently as possible you are pounced on before you even know you're being hunted but it's a movie and that scene wouldn't have been a scary the t-rex save time in fact even when sound designers could pull from similar real-life examples they often reach for the unexpected like a hatching Dino egg from Jurassic Park these large ice cream cones will end up being the egg cracking sound paleontology have been trying to figure out what dinosaur the light for decades it started to get an answer because the vocal organs used to make sounds like the vocal cords in our throat are mostly made of flesh and flesh does not fossilized so for clues scientists look at dinosaurs closest relatives birds and crocodilians which yes includes proper dials birds make a variety of high-pitched chirps but if you look at the larger birds like ostriches emus and cassowaries they make rumbling sounds that are lower in frequency some scientists leave these low frequency sounds are probably more similar to what dinosaurs must have made the other Dino relatives like crocodiles and alligators make booming low-frequency sounds as well that's kind of different from the high-pitched screech of velociraptors in Jurassic Park isn't it obviously there were many different kinds of dinos and they all sound different but scientists have a better idea about one type in particular could have sounded like duck-billed dinosaurs that's because these animals at a large hollowed crust on top of their heads when the dinosaur breathed the air went through the tubing's inside the crust and it resonated making this very low-frequency buzzing sort of sound kind of like a didgeridoo in 1978 very wise Hannibal and master students at the University of Toronto created a prototype to replicate the sound one type of duck-billed I know the Paris rock was it was made of PVC the same material your home pipes hang on when you blow air into it you can basically hear what the duck-billed dinosaur sounded like while breathing other scientists then replicated the sound using computer models and this is what they came up with nice now let's compare that the same diner in Jurassic Park the lost world now in this scene though the diner is in distress so it's calls could sound completely different that one is just breathing the fumes sounds are more high-pitched the filmmakers actually recorded cows through long tubes and the sound actually doesn't seem too far off to me but the more scientifically accurate one is deeper and that makes a lot of sense all these dinosaurs lifted really heavily for static fireman you know chuckles that's Thomas Williamson curator of paleontology at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science so these low frequency sounds are actually detect amount of travel the best through different sort of habitats so movies aren't focused on the picketing accurate sounds for a lot of reasons when it comes to giant creatures and monsters it's just better to shut off the science part of your brain if you can same goes for all the tarantulas and the Sharktopus is in the movies these are creatures without any vocal cords so come on every cute spider I've seen in the movie chirps like a bird what the heck