![]() ![]() You may have have encountered this also if you’re watching, and you get to close to your chipmunks and they dart into their burrows. Is he pretty sure that this indicates different things? It’s not just a chipmunk with a deep voice or something.ĬS: Yeah, these are distinct calls. Kind of a lower sound, that they’re more likely to make when there’s a hawk or an aerial predator coming by. So he’s got examples on the website like this standard high chipping sound that you may hear, is a sound that they’re more likely to make if it’s a predator on the ground.ĬS: Then there’s another one that’s more like a cluck. For a flying predator, a different kind of a sound. Say it’s a cat, or a fox or something like that.ĬS: Or me. ![]() And it turns out if you watch what’s going on when they make they different calls, it looks pretty likely that they have one as an alarm they give when there’s a predator on the ground. And it turns out if you listen carefully to your chipmunks, they don’t just make one kind of chipping call, they make several. And so he’s got examples of their calls on there. And he’s got a softspot for chipmunks like I do too. He’s got a blog/website called “The Music of Nature,” and he’s got some of these amazing sounds posted on there. There’s a scientist called Lang Eliot who studied Chipmunks in the Adirondacks for years, years ago, and does a lot of wildlife recording. The chipmunk, right? And now there’s the cluckmunk, the chipping and the clucking right? But it’s the same animal.Ĭurt Stager: Yeah, it was a neat find. Martha Foley: You brought a really cool bit of sound for us to listen to, and it’s really cool because it’s such a common sound that we hear. Curt Stager sample the vocabulary used by this common denizen of North Country woods and villages. ![]() Chipmunk, cluckmunk? Chipmunks and many animals use a variety of sounds to express different things. ![]()
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