The giant mutant ants in Them! are quite noisy for creatures without vocal cords.In The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, all the big cats except Aslan make puma sounds, and the badgers make guinea pig noises!.The particular species of swan seen here is a Mute swan it is capable of making some sounds, usually hissing at predators (or people who get too close), but it doesn't honk. The swan in Hot Fuzz honks like a goose.Freeze: SubZero constantly let out big cat roars and growls and seldomly utter actual bear vocalizations. Unlike the loud giggles of the spotted hyena, the striped hyena's laugh sounds more like a high pitch chatter. Although the striped hyena is usually silent, they are capable of laughing. In Dumbo, a striped hyena laughs (which only spotted hyenas do in real life) and a gorilla produces a roar similar to Tarzan's yell.Speaking of roaring barracudas, a barracuda seen briefly during Tip and Dash's song in The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea roars like a grizzly bear.The giant squid from Finding Dory also utters a few guttural growls and snarls. Given their respective scenes are particularly heavy on Nightmare Fuel, this is most likely a case of Rule of Scary. Finding Nemo has a roaring barracuda and a screeching anglerfish.Other felines in the movie, however, are capable of speech. Justified because they are seen from the perspective of mice, to whom a domestic cat is as dangerous as a big cat would be to a human. The Cossack cats in An American Tail snarl and growl like leopards.Tiger roars are also used, but at least they are pretty close to how a leopard sounds. While real leopard vocalizations are used, Sabor also frequently utters cougar yells, even though leopards are roaring cats and don't make such vocalizations.Granted, Kerchak does make gravely grunts, snorts and roars, which are at least semi-realistic. In reality, gorillas grunt, scream, belch and (oddly enough) purr, but they don't 'pant-hoot' like chimps. The gorillas all make chimpanzee sounds. The mythical Golden Herons in Kubo and the Two Strings are voiced by the Common Loon.The Rugrats Movie features a wolf whose growls sound more like some sort of big cat than a wolf.The Magic Voyage features a shark who roars like a cougar.Lion characters purr in The Lion King II: Simba's Pride.Ironically, as they belong to the Feliformia suborder, this also makes Hyenas related to cats! Despite their physical resemblance and similar behaviour to canines, hyenas belong to a family of their own, and their closest relatives are civets and genets.
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