Mammal throats consist of two bones, the hyoid bone and the clavicle. Their larynx is kept close to the base of the skull by an ossified hyoid. The ability to roar comes from an elongated and specially adapted larynx and hyoid apparatus. The posterior fibers pass inferomedially and insert at anterior surface of the hyoid bone. It can purr as its hyoid bone is ossified. The intermediate tendon passes through a connective tissue loop attached to the hyoid bone. The suprahyoid muscles are four muscles located above the hyoid bone in the neck. The second arch becomes the hyoid and jaw support. The hyoglossus, arises from the hyoid bone and retracts and depresses the tongue. It cannot roar, despite possessing partial ossification of the hyoid bone. The members of the Pantherinae have an imperfectly ossified suspensorium of the hyoid apparatus. The mentohyoideus muscle passes from the body of hyoid bone to chin. The body of the hyoid bone is the central part of the hyoid bone. It first runs obliquely upward and medialward to the greater horns of the hyoid bone. It projects upwards and backwards behind the tongue and the hyoid bone.