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@peter:

About #1: I believed that roaring would effectively have an effect toward domestic animals (for example in the case of the domestic cattle paralysed by lions' roaring you quoted and during the ancient times of the Africa colonization, numerous accounts produced by settlers) but not toward wild animals.

However, I have always quoted that the leopards using this strategy in order to attack some baboons also take advantage of the night. The fact is the baboons much more fear the leopard at night than during the day.

The Dailymail doesn't precize if the simultaneous 12 monkeys' death caused by the tiger's roar occured at night. It would be interesting to know it.

The fact is: when a tiger in marauding into the India jungle he is constantly followed by the monkeys' crys and screams which report his presence. Perhaps, in this case indicated by the Dailymail, during the night the monkeys being this time unaware of the tiger's presence were suddenly suprised by the roaring which, so, shocked them to death.

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