Lyrebirds are gorgeous creatures with an unusual trait–they vocalize like human babies!
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Porcupines can sound like babies in the dark, video shows | Centre Daily Times.
Bonobos, our amorous primate relatives, communicate much like human infants do, according to a new study.
Male limpkins are well known for producing a repetitive, high-pitched wail or scream that sounds remarkably human-like when it wakes you up in the dead of night.
Pups of the greater sac-winged bat develop their vocal skills by babbling in a similar way to human babies — a discovery that could help researchers to explore the underlying neuroscience of how mammals learn to communicate with one another.
Young animals vary in how much they cry, squawk or otherwise communicate with their parents, and studies with mice, beetles and monkeys show that this variation is partly based on genes. Some level of crying in humans, of course, is based on gas pains and messy diapers.
His name is Echo. The wails coming from an enclosure at Taronga Zoo Sydney in Australia may sound like the cries of a human baby. But don't be alarmed. It's just a trickster resident: A brown, long-tailed bird named Echo has learned how to mimic the shrieks and shrills of human babies.
We are the only creature capable of creating emotional tears, according to most experts and scientists. A “tears by association” hypothesis has been put forth to try and explain this. For example, in the evolutionary past, babies would squeeze their eyes as they scream for their mothers.
If you've ever heard a pained cry in the dead of night that sounds like a woman screaming, then you've probably heard a female fox (or 'vixen') letting a male (or 'dog') fox know that she is ready to mate (listen here).
“The red fox is quite vocal during mating season with females letting out a cry known as the vixen call. To some, this call sounds much like a young child screaming and can be quite unsettling.”
The most common call is a raspy mew that sounds like a cat. Catbirds also make a loud, chattering chek-chek-chek and a quiet quirt.
Doctors insist that this phenomenon is partly to blame on biology; that as new parents (yes, phantom crying can affect Dads too) we are hardwired to be on high alert around our children, especially when they first arrive.
Cries from Boredom or Overstimulation
Sounds Like: Usually not as loud as other cries, and often staccato. Boredom can easily transition to laughter; overstimulation can escalate to shrieking. Other clues: An overstimulated baby might turn their head away from you or other stimuli. They may also bat angrily at objects.
Toadfish are well known for using a strange set of hoots and grunts to attract mates or scare off predators. When Aaron Rice at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, recorded the calls of captive three-spined toadfish, he noticed that some of the waveforms contained short but complicated patterns.
Gray Catbird is the Cat's Meow of Birds
The Gray Catbird rust butt is the cat's meow of birds because their most common call sound is a raspy mew like a cat. We name our backyard Catbird Luigi, and he returns each year from winter migration, bringing his flock of catbirds.
It's no surprise that owls are vocal at night, and the barred owl has a distinctive and very loud hooting call with longer notes at the end that can be heard throughout their range in the eastern United States, western Canada, and the Pacific Northwest.
A new species of 'crying' snake has been discovered in Lepa-Rada district of Arunachal Pradesh. The discovery of the non-venomous crying keelback, whose zoological name is Hebius lacrima , has been published in Zootaxa , the New Zealand-based scientific mega-journal for animal taxonomy.
Not only do baby monkeys cry and scream much like human babies do, but their mothers face similar consequences from those around them. Studies have shown that when monkey infants cry and aren't hushed by their mothers, other monkeys in the vicinity feel free to express their displeasure.
One particular type of meow—one that means your cat needs something and it's your job to figure it out—sounds just like a human baby crying. Yep, according to science, some cats can meow at the same frequency as an infant's cry.
If you define crying as expressing emotion, such as grief or joy, then the answer is yes. Animals do create tears, but only to lubricate their eyes, says Bryan Amaral, senior curator of the Smithsonian's National Zoo. Animals do feel emotions, too, but in nature it's often to their advantage to mask them.
Occasional grunts, snorts, whistling and squeaks are normal for a newborn and aren't usually anything to worry about. Newborn babies make these noises as they breathe . Your baby's tiny lungs and nose have only just started inhaling air.
Brown-headed Nuthatches don't sing complicated songs, but they are plenty vocal. They make tiny squeaks that sound like a toy rubber ducky being squeezed.
The distinct voice of the Kookaburra sounds like human laughing— some people think!