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The lions cowered (main picture) as a group of visitors ... Getting a roar deal: Angry lions are sitting ducks as they are pelted with snowballs by laughing crowd at a Chinese zoo.

Lions roar to share information about their location, emotions, dominance, and territorial boundaries. Not all roars are angry roars, and sometimes they roar just to roar.

This action of the Lion made the lioness angry, and this made the big cat attack the lion, and roar at him. The lion gets scared of the lioness and starts backing away from the outraged lioness ...

When an old African elephant matriarch hears a lion roar out on the savanna, she listens to discern whether it's a male or female. Why does she care? Because male lions are more likely to attack ...