This week I don’t really have a mystery object, I have a mystery sound for you to identify from the British Library Sound Archive via the Curator of Wildlife Sounds, Cheryl Tipp.
Any idea what this is?
Patches is listening carefully
As usual you can put your thoughts in the comments section below. Have fun!
Zygoma 
T. rex (or a latter-day relative)?
Definitely a relative!
Is it a famous relative?
Nearly famous.
At last – one I know! In more familiar territory here. It’s too early in the game for me to say though. 😉 Territory… early… may have a wee dram to celebrate this one.
There’s a bubbly whickering or cooing and a wooshy, back-of-the-throat hiss. Are they both made by the same creature?
I believe it’s the same critter
Am I being a thicky or do I just have an old browser? I can’t seem to get the link to work…
There should be a play button.
So there’s a small change in pitch in there that sounds more like a humanoid mouth sound than a bird sound. I picture lips pulling back…some kind of marmoset perhaps? Dan Jones said we should just say Tasmanian Devil because it would be too cool if it were true. It is Friday after all…
Lyrebird?? They make so many weird and wonderful sounds and they are Trex relatives
I would indeed love it to be a Tasmanian Devil. Thank you Daniel Calleri for writing the very first animal I shouted out when we listened to this clip in the office. However, given Paolo’s confirmation regarding it being a theropod, I have to ask if it would be of a Tawny variety?
Definitely not Tawny…
Congener or confamiliar to a Tawny perhaps?