Now before I begin. The entire reason behind the concept of this thread’s existence, was simply based on a random idea that I recently had, just to see whether or not anyone else here on ZooChat other than myself, could easily make some sounds based on certain animal vocalizations (ex. a lion’s roar). Now for starters, here are some of the more notable animal sounds that I can easily make, (whenever my throat ever feels like doing so): African Lion, (Panthera leo spp.) Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin, (Tursiops truncatus) Common Chimpanzee, (Pan troglodytes) Domestic Cow, (Bos taurus) African/Cape Buffalo, (Syncerus caffer caffer) Domestic Goat, (Capra hircus) Nile Hippopotamus, (Hippopotamus amphibius) Spotted Hyena, (Crocuta crocuta) White-Cheeked Gibbon, (Hylobates lar) Emu, (Dromaius novaehollandiae) Southern Cassowary, (Casuarius casuarius) Domestic Chicken, (Gallus gallus domesticus) Wild Turkey, (Meleagris gallopavo) Indian Peafowl, (Pavo cristatus) Western Diamondback Rattlesnake, (Crotalus atrox) I also want to mention, that if you either have some form of difficulty when it comes to making an animal sound, or if you simply don’t know how. That is okay, after all, it is only just a simple talent that some people just so happen to be good at, whether they are good at it or not; even it means that it might be different for some people, while the opposite might be true for others. In addition, I am also aware that there are probably certain existent threads that have already tackled this subject before. But to my current knowledge, I personally do not believe that anyone else has had any current attempt to bring this kind of topic into the forum; so in that case, I am just going to be the first one here that will bring it up here, if you know what I mean.
I can make the following: African Lion Chimpanzee Domestic Goat Howler Monkey Giant Panda Saiga Emperor Penguin Bengal Tiger Eastern Wild Turkey Peafowl Plains Zebra Varanus sp. American Bullfrog Cougar Caribou
I just noticed that I unintentionally wrote White-Cheeked Gibbon as the common name for the gibbon species that I included in my first post, when it really should have been the White-Handed Gibbon instead. I sincerely do apologize for this slight inconvenience, but since that post had already reached its expiration date when it comes to editing the post itself. I’m afraid that there is nothing really else that I can do about it, until I of course, update the post and make some changes to make it more relevant.
I can do a dolphin by bending my tongue back on itself and sucking air in to create a rapid series of clicks. I tried it once at Sea World while feeding a dolphin and got no response. Other than that I'm not bad at a giraffe.
When I was a kid I was fairly good imitating the sound of common magpies. Sadly, with the passing of years my attempts resulted less and less convincing. Once I attracted an scops owl by imitating its call.
I can do Elephant (Trumpeting, Rumbling you name it I can do it) Lion (Roaring and growling) Zebra (When I was younger and my voice more high pitched) Impala Hippo Giraffe (Infrasonic calls) Cape Buffalo Rock Pigeon Rhino (Only squealing)
Are you sarcastically saying silence or implying that you know and can make sounds below the human hearing range?
Infrasonic Giraffe sounds are like a low hum so I can do that, no human on earth can make infrasonic sounds
I find it funny that you added a specific (sub)species. I highly doubt a Bengal Tiger sounds very different from a Malayan or Amur tiger. The same could be said about African and Asian lions; and Grevy’s, Mountain, and Plains Zebra. Yes they may have some minor differences in their calls but for the most part they are all quite similar. Just because you can make a low hum doesn’t mean you can make infrasonic sounds
I can say that I sound different from my Siberian counterparts, they have Russian accents On a more related note, I can imitate humans
I can imitate a tiger, lion, cougar, elk, wild turkey, spotted hyena, coyote, zebra, and maybe a wolf.
This is something I've played with/been working on a long time, and am pretty good with quite a few, mostly birds. Ones I'm good at: Great Horned Owl Barn Owl Western Screech-Owl Barred Owl Great Gray Owl Mourning Dove Eurasian Collared-Dove Rock Pigeon Great Blue Heron Mallard Northern Shoveler Rhinoceros Auklet Laughing Kookaburra (chuckle and warm up) Crested Caracara (begging) Black/Turkey Vulture huffs Yellow-billed/Black-billed Magpies Common Raven Parrot mimicking speech Bobwhite Peafowl Whip-poor-will Chuck-will's Widow Golden-crowned Sparrow (whistled) White-throated Sparrow (whistled) Pied-billed Grebe (rattle call) Goose/swan hiss Common Cuckoo American Bullfrog North American Porcupine (moan/grumble) Our dogs bark and howl Domestic chicken Domestic cow Reasonable imitations: Northern Saw-whet Owl Northern Pygmy-Owl Flammulated Owl Spotted Owl American Flamingo Wild Turkey Rock Ptarmigan California Quail Fulvous Whistling Duck Wood Duck Killdeer Roadrunner (song) Peregrine alarm screams American Bittern (song) Sora (kur-wee calls) Ring-necked Pheasant alarm Canyon Wren descending song (whistled) Black-capped Chickadee White-crowned Sparrow (whistled) Great Argus Elk bugle Still working on my Bald Eagle, I'm close but can't quite get it right very well. I also have a lot of bad imitations of things like Acorn Woodpeckers, scrub-jays, Red-winged Blackbird, and what not.
Some of you mention animals whose sounds seems practically impossible to imitate properly. Great Argus, I would love to hear you imitating nothing less that the metallic screen of a barn owl! Or Pantheraman with the elk bellow!
I can actually do the old trick of imitating a bird's song well enough to lure a male bird towards me in search of a rival male in its territory. Unfortunately I can only do it for one West African species, the many-coloured bush-shrike (Malaconotus multicolor). This is not as impressive as it sounds because its song is actually a single note;The African Handbook of Birds describes it as "a melodious, whistling, rather melancholy 'whoop'."
The three species of zebra make very different noises; Grevy's has a long braying call (used by territorial males); Plains Zebra has the barking 'Qua Ha' call; Mountain Zebra has a high-pitched whinnying call- 'like a stone thrown across ice' is one description.
Oh guess I was mistaken, I’m sorry about that. That’s very interesting, I had no idea. Thanks for letting me know!
Wolverine Elephant (distressed) Northern Cardinal Barred owl Summer tanager (I have yet to see one and probably never will) Bugs Bunny
I think your chances of seeing one are a lot higher than you think, given how many Ebird reports there are in Minnesota's warmer months.
@Great Argus I say see one because I have heard them a few times, hence me trying to impersonate them. Minnesota's summer birds are sometimes too overwhelming in biodiversity I have probably only seen 20% of them, despite living here and going out almost every day to find some. I slowly ticked some species down and Every time I saw a cardinal I would cross my fingers to hope It was a Summer Tanager. I need to ask a few people that I know who have seen them (no one here on zoochat) to tell me some of the best places to find the tanagers. Not too heavily though, I don't want this to turn into another one of my ZC Big year fiasco's .
