Favourite animal calls.

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Jarkari

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So I got home fairly late tonight and when i got out of hmy ute my dingoes let loose with howling. It echoed through th valley. i just stood there for a bit enjoying the noise, until the dogs in town started to go off. woops. but anyway, this got me thinking, what are zoochatters favourite animal calls. for me its as follows:

Dingo Howls
Maned Wolf Roarbark
Siamang
White handed gibbon
Lion Roar
Tiger Roar
Tiger Chuff
Elephant squeaks
rhino calls fascinate me also

Although not Audible, by far my favourite communication by an animal i have only ever felt a few times was when scrubbing a big bull elephant in a river. you couldnt hear it but my whole body was vibrating from his rumbles to the girls.

What does everyone else like?
 
I think probably what could be termed "iconic" calls like kookaburra and siamang are great. Other less iconic species I like are helmeted hornbill (like a gibbon whooping, gradually building up speed and then at the end erupting into a bizarre kookaburra-like laugh), the R2-D2 satin bowerbird, the machine-gun blue bird-of-paradise, the collection of sounds by lyrebirds, the haunting organ-pipe music of kokako, and the blowing-across-the-top-of-a-bottle kakapo.
 
Chiming Wedgebill.

And others mentioned above.
 
Capuchinbird/Calfbird. Eeriness defined.

Among more familiar animals, the sound of a colony of flamingos - one of the classic zoo sounds (along with gibbons and sea lions).
 
Chlidonias said:
I think probably what could be termed "iconic" calls like kookaburra and siamang are great. Other less iconic species I like are helmeted hornbill (like a gibbon whooping, gradually building up speed and then at the end erupting into a bizarre kookaburra-like laugh), the R2-D2 satin bowerbird, the machine-gun blue bird-of-paradise, the collection of sounds by lyrebirds, the haunting organ-pipe music of kokako, and the blowing-across-the-top-of-a-bottle kakapo.
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I've never really been big on birds but this has got me interested. I'll be opening my ears a bit more when I'm out and about.
 
Nice thread!

I love the sound a young rhino will make to its mother asking for milk.
Trumpeting elephants are great to hear.
The lions roar which vibrates when close by, but can be clearly heard from miles away too is very impressive.
The first time I heard a kookaburra I turned to look for it and made a bee line for its enclosure so I could see it call. I have seen those chainsaw, camera shutter mimicking lyre birds on TV, I would love to hear one of them one day for real.
The sound of a carp slurping at a piece of bread on the surface of a pond too, it is surprisingly loud.
Orang-utan calls are also impressive sounds to hear. I remember hearing wild dolphins on boat trip guide once making a noise not to dissimilar to a human laughing with a croaky voice.
 
Jarkari said:
I've never really been big on birds but this has got me interested. I'll be opening my ears a bit more when I'm out and about.
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I never actually noticed all my "non-iconic" were birds!!

To balance, I'll say the bark of a tuatara and the screeching of a Tasmanian devil. And the roar of a wombat -- that one took me surprise when I heard it the first time!!
 
The songs of a humpback whale...
 
I like spotted hyaena laughing as well, just because it's so creepy and evil-sounding
 
I loved being in a rainforest and it starting to rain and the howler monkeys started to howl, it's amazing how loud and impressive the sound is, you'd think it was coming from animals 10 times the size.

I even forgave the little bloke in the tree who woke me at 5 am howling to his mates.

Love gibbons singing too.

Baby apes' huffy laughter is lovely sound although not a call as such.
 
Koala Bellowing
malayan Tapir Squeaking
The call of a zebra
courtship between a male and female Giant Panda
Hippopotamus sound when there underwater
 
I like the Siamang's at Dubbo as you could hear them all over the zoo.
Koala are a sound I like hearing in the bush.
Sambar also have an extraordinary honk , especially when you are miles from anywhere in the bush and are not expecting it.
 
Monty said:
I like the Siamang's at Dubbo as you could hear them all over the zoo.
Koala are a sound I like hearing in the bush.
Sambar also have an extraordinary honk , especially when you are miles from anywhere in the bush and are not expecting it.
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On a quiet Sunday morning i would go outside for my morning coffee and could here them going off from my verandah near the highway in town. Amazing how far that one travels.
 
There is just something about the clicks and squeals of a Sumatran rhinoceros; they're really just amazing to hear in person. The bellow of a male bongo is also quite impressive.

There are, of course, more, but I decided to only post the ones that haven't been discussed as of yet.
 
Sandhill Cranes have a unique and very loud call.
Golden Lion Tamarins sometimes have a very high and loud screech when they're nervous.
 
I love the call of Australian magpies. One of the great things about moving to a different country is getting used to the new bird sounds. My first dawn in Australia was greeted with Australian ravens yowling which we all found rather disturbing because if you are unfamiliar with them it doesn't really sound bird-like at all. But the magpie's call is really beautiful and quite subtle and understated, not at all like that of its northern hemisphere namesake.
 
Pygathrix said:
I love the call of Australian magpies.
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I can't help but agree with you. It's so quintessentially Australian. Another particularly Aussie sound is made by flocks of parrots. The cacophony that a group of galahs, corellas, or sulfur-crested cockatoos make always reminds me of where I grew up in country Victoria.


On the other hand, brush-tailed possums make one of my least favourite noises. Hearing outside your bedroom window at night is terrifying.
 
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