Sorry if this is the wrong place to pose this question . . . .
I have just spent a few nights in iMfolozi, staying in the tented camp. I was woken one night by quite loud, short, sharp ?exhalations close to our tent. The sort of sound you might make if a fly flew into your face and you blew it fiercely away. (but louder and sharper)That's the only way I can describe it. So - is it a warning sound from one of the antelopes? A bush pig? What?
Re: Night noise
Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2019 5:39 pm
by Lisbeth
Re: Night noise
Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2019 5:45 pm
by Klipspringer
Alarm calls of antelope
Re: Night noise
Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2019 5:59 pm
by Richprins
Was it right in the middle of the night?
Re: Night noise
Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2019 10:55 pm
by Peter Betts
Sounds Like a Mozzie ...did you put on Tabard before going to Bed
Re: Night noise
Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2019 7:14 am
by ubhejane
@ klipspringer - thanks. it was none of those. In tone perhaps closest to impala but shorter, sharper.
@Richardprins - well I cant say exactly but somewhere between midnight and 03.00 . . . .
@Peter Betts - oh shoot! You mean mozzies exhale as well as whine? And don't tell me its only when they pierce your flesh; I don't want to know that . . . .
Anyway all .
Re: Night noise
Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2019 7:53 am
by Richprins
I would guess ratel then!
Re: Night noise
Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2019 8:53 am
by ubhejane
Richprins wrote: ↑Mon Aug 19, 2019 7:53 am
I would guess ratel then!
It seems possible, but none of the literature mentions this sound.
all .
