Here on Los Doggies Dot Com, we’ve blogged about birds. We’ve blogged about the loudest note in the world and the Emergency Broadcast Signal. Now it’s time for all three—the loudest bird in the world that sings an annoying set of tones like a FEMA alert. The White Bellbird has recently gone viral for his […]
Archive of posts tagged Animal Music
Yodel-Ay-Ee-Oooo
Yodeling was inspired by donkeys. Bored shepherds in the alps needed a way to pass the time and found inspiration in their asses. They sang to the mountains with donkey voices and the mountains sang back, or another yodeler, or a donkey. Yodeling is one of the manliest forms of singing. You start with your […]
Atonal Bald Eagle Whistling
In this Reddit video, a man whistles atonally to summon an American Bald Eagle for breakfast. Click on the video below to listen. Don’t be mad at my accidentals, you nerd. It’s atonal! I can only whistle atonally myself. It took me forever to learn how to blow a note. It wasn’t until my friend […]
Whippoorwill
I am the whippoorwill that cries in the night. No, actually—I’m just a guy. But sometimes I do cry in the night. After sunset, you can hear whippoorwills sing their own name. Scientists call them “goatsuckers” in Latin. Guess how they got that name. There is not a poet born in America who hasn’t been […]
Braying Melodies
While reviewing this blog and the animal music chronicled within its webpages, I discovered a glaring omission: I had yet to notate a donkey! How could I be so foolish to overlook one of the most iconic musical cries in the animal kingdom, the humble “hee-haw”? Donkeys are a cartoonish kind of horse. They are […]
Red-Tailed Hawk Call
A screaming “kee-eeeee-arr” comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now. The red-tailed hawk makes a cliché call as it soars. You’ve heard it in movies in a million mountainside scenes, as a leitmotif for Natives, and a non-diegetic joke. It’s basically the Wilhelm scream for […]
Jug-O-Rum
The bullfrog is so named for his bullish mating call, the “jug-o-rum.” Here’s how the bullfrog got his name: Long ago, some dandy fop was cycling his velocipede around a Northern pond, lost in transcendentalist musings, when he heard what sounded like a bull bellowing from the shallow end. The dandy fop shined his lantern […]
