Cheetahs can’t roar. They can only meow like domestic house cats.
As Stephen Mills explained in BBC Wildlife Magazine, only four “big cats” can roar: lions, tigers, leopards, and jaguars. These species, all of which belong to the Panthera genus, have a ligament in their voice box that can be stretched to create a “larger sound-producing passage and thus a wider range of pitch.
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