Do Elk sound like monsters?

Blood curdling Shrieks ? :confused: Sound of the Wilderness, a little eery perhaps,but music to most people's ears. :d first time I heard a Red Deer, close cousin, I was sorely disappointed, now that's a monster sound.

Grizz
 
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To me they are like loons , the sound of northern Canada. But to be honest I had a girlfriend in my youth who sounded like that when she broke a nail. :)
 
well, I've got them to "bugle" and had them chase me back to the car- it's a kind of WHEEE- YUNK but really high- like felix from the odd couple clearing his nose- the one with walter matheau, not the abortative new one-
 
First time I heard an elk, I was sleeping in a tent in Banff, I think it was tunnel mountain campground. I was hitchhiking my way around Canada and coming from Quebec, I had never heard such a thing in my life....scared the living crap out of me.
 
Elk, not so much. I'll tell what does sound like a monster, hearing a flock of sandhill cranes for the first time as a young kid who just watched Jurassic park. I've heard what I now know was a cougar screaming years back, monstrous, hair standing up right now type sound.
 
GOUMFACH said:
First time I heard an elk, I was sleeping in a tent in Banff, I think it was tunnel mountain campground. I was hitchhiking my way around Canada and coming from Quebec, I had never heard such a thing in my life....scared the living crap out of me.
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I was up on that 2 rail line just west of there-
 
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well, I've got them to "bugle" and had them chase me back to the car- it's a kind of WHEEE- YUNK but really high- like felix from the odd couple clearing his nose- the one with walter matheau, not the abortative new one-
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I've had a couple of cows whinny (as in horses) at me one of the first times I ever hunted in BC. I couldn't work out what kind of animal it was until I caught a glimpse of them in the tree line.
 
Hearing a bull Elk bugling on a frosty fall morning is music to my ears but you know what is better?

Smelling the sweet piss of a rutting bull that is upwind of you. Some of you guys will know what I'm talking about.
 
One of the great sounds of wild stuff. Close up or far away it always makes goose bumps. It is an astonishing sound for an animal that looks like an bull elk to make, and how it can attract women I'll never know.
 
First time i heard a moose roar was rather eerie. Actually rattled me as it was entirely new for me about 5 years back.

Never expected the elk to make a similar noise after hearing the bugles and chirps from the time i was a toddler. I had a big bull elk came in close to a bugle and he let out a growl that sounded more like the red stag.
 
like the red stag.

Now, they sound like a monster, nothing majestic about that roar and I think people refer to it as such. :d

Grizz
 
Bobcats screaming right outside your bedroom window is an eerie sound. Turns out a herd of bovines with newborn calves don't like it either and you spend the next day repairing fence.
 
I pissed off a cow moose a few years back and she was snorting and grunting something wild...sounded thunderous in the cold dark clear cut, I had never heard that in the bush. The first elk i heard spooked me more because it sounded eerie whereas with the moose I knew she was pissed .
 
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