I just listened to a news story about two planes colliding on the tarmac in Toronto, Canada. The news story featured an on board recording made when the passengers noticed the flames emerging from the collision.
- Female voices screaming were prominent.
From a survival perspective screaming doesn’t seem to add much value to the situation. Other than perhaps to bring attention to the obvious. - Young girls at playgrounds seem to also use the same type of ear piercing scream when they play and tease each other. I sometimes have to cover my ears because it’s so loud.
- My personal reactiontion to sudden pain like banging my finger with a hammer, is to curse out loud - even when there is no one around who can hear. It’s just seems to bring relief.
Maybe that is WHY?
PS: No passengers were seriously hurt in this incident, but clearly was a tense situation.
Looking at the animal kingdom, female birds like killdeers will fain injury, loudly distracting predators away from their young. Or perhaps the fact that it causes a reaction in males to investigate, or try to stop it?
I think perhaps it's just an automatic, non-intentional reaction.. I've noticed that in different situations like beong suddenly afraid or surprised or in pain I tend to utter different noises that are completely automatic woth no thought process going into it at all. Humans are so strange right?!