Deep, menacing bear growls from the 1944 cartoon Donald Duck and the Gorilla, used for scary moments, pranks and animal sound effects in videos.
The clip is a short burst of deep, guttural bear growling, low and rough with a threatening rumble that rises and falls as if the animal is warning something away. It sounds close and aggressive rather than distant or cartoonish, with heavy breathing and snarling edges that make it feel genuinely intimidating. Played on its own it instantly signals danger, a wild animal nearby, or a character about to be chased, and it works because listeners recognise the threat before they see anything. In a video it raises tension in seconds, turning an ordinary scene into something tense, funny, or startling depending on the timing.
The growls come from Donald Duck and the Gorilla, a Donald Duck cartoon released on March 31, 1944. In the short, the growling helps sell the threat of a large, powerful animal, and the recording has since circulated as a standalone animal sound effect on soundboards and in fan edits. It remains useful because classic cartoon sound design was bold and easy to recognise, and a short, aggressive bear growl still works instantly as shorthand for danger, wilderness, or a comic chase without needing any dialogue.