Favorite animal sound

Yep, female GuneaFowl call is repetative but not irritating like chickens. I know I often repeat myself on here, its what's in one's mind. I think the Sealions are the most missed of all those ZSL sounds...

Hoofstock- certainly no Gaur or Yaks at London anymore. The last male from the ZSL blackbuck herd died at Whipsnade a year or so ago, before he could be introduced to their new group of imported females- I think they still have not got a new male yet- or maybe they have by now?. London have Giraffe (females only), Zebra, Okapi, Reindeer, Bearded Pig and Warthog, Tapir and Pygmy Hippo but no Antelope at all now that I can think of...
 
Pertinax said:
I think the Sealions are the most missed of all those ZSL sounds...
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I wholeheartedly agree; sea lions barking is possibly the most evocative of all zoo noises...
Pertinax said:
London have Giraffe (females only), Zebra, Okapi, Reindeer, Bearded Pig and Warthog, Tapir and Pygmy Hippo but no Antelope at all now that I can think of...
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As far as I'm aware, London Zoo still has a pair of red forest duiker; at least they were still there on my last visit and I haven't heard that they've moved.
 
I like Ground Hornbills´ call. It´s low tune and resonates in silent landscape for long distance.

I remmember when I´ve heard this call for the first time. A zoo visit on workday during winter time, absolutely no people around and just (seemingly) empty large hoofstock paddocs around. I had no idea what animal can make such sound. It took me many minutes before I found the source.
 
Tim May said:
I wholeheartedly agree; sea lions barking is possibly the most evocative of all zoo noises...


As far as I'm aware, London Zoo still has a pair of red forest duiker; at least they were still there on my last visit and I haven't heard that they've moved.
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I knew there was something.....:)
 
Tim May said:
I wholeheartedly agree; sea lions barking is possibly the most evocative of all zoo noises...


As far as I'm aware, London Zoo still has a pair of red forest duiker; at least they were still there on my last visit and I haven't heard that they've moved.
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Another set of zoo sounds in my memory is from Jersey a few years back: Ruffed Lemur, White-naped Crane and Maned Wolf. The first two are still there. Jersey is the only place I have heard the Long Call of a male Orang-utan -- also the only place I have been around Orangs long enough to hear it. Thank you Dagu.
 
FBBird said:
Another set of zoo sounds in my memory is from Jersey a few years back: Ruffed Lemur, White-naped Crane and Maned Wolf. The first two are still there. Jersey is the only place I have heard the Long Call of a male Orang-utan -- also the only place I have been around Orangs long enough to hear it. Thank you Dagu.
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I've never heard Maned Wolf that I'm aware of..what does it sound like?

Orangutan longcall is one sound that is apparently more common in the wild(probably due to more males being adjacent to each other in the Forests) than it is in captivity. I've heard them at both Bristol and London, but a very long time ago now. Can't think of anywhere else. As you say you need to be around a lot to hear it.
 
Pertinax said:
I've never heard Maned Wolf that I'm aware of..what does it sound like?

Orangutan longcall is one sound that is apparently more common in the wild(probably due to more males being adjacent to each other in the Forests) than it is in captivity. I've heard them at both Bristol and London, but a very long time ago now. Can't think of anywhere else. As you say you need to be around a lot to hear it.
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Just googled 'Maned Wolf call', it's on YouTube, much better than I could describe it. As I remember, Eva at Jersey used to call mornings and evenings, out of zoo opening hours.
It's been a very long time since either Bristol or London even had Orangs. Sadly.
Interestingly, Dagu at Jersey is the only mature male Orang for hundreds of miles in any direction.
 
My current favourite sound at Paignton is the song of the Australian Magpie. It reminds me of the sort of calls I heard while in New Zealand and Singapore a couple of years ago. Unfortunately, the pair on show seem to suffer from stage fright and stop singing when they have an audience so you have to hide in the nearby shrubbery.
 
My #1 for mammals is elephant rumbles & roars. They just sound so prehistoric and awe-inspiring! Also the sounds of baboons have always fascinated me. A new one for me is the snort of Gaurs. I never realized they were so loud! It almost sounded like thunder when they breathed inside their pavilion at the Toronto Zoo. For birds I'd say the mating calls of the storks of the genus Leptoptilos and the Goura pigeons. They're good examples showing that you wouldn't expect a noise like that to come out of a bird. For frogs, I think the sounds that Horned & Budgett's Frogs make when they're defending themselves is pretty cool. I can't presently think of some for reptiles and fish.
 
Some of my favorites are:
- The laugh of the kookaburra
- The rumble of the emu
- The vocalization of the Southern ground hornbill
- The calls of pretty much all the gibbons
- The trumpeting sound of the emperor penguin
- The growls and hisses of the American alligator
- The laugh and howl of the spotted hyena
- The moan, chuff and roar of the tiger
- The long roar of the lion
 
Welsh Zootographer said:
The ตุ๊กแก Tokay Gecko (Gekko Gecko), we used to have one living in the rafters of our house in north-east Thailand. :cool:
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One of the places we stayed at in Cambodia was out in the countryside in the middle of nowhere, and they were absolutely everywhere! On the walls, on the windows, in the roof!
 
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