Animal Call Charades: Guess That Wild Sound

In this episode of Wildly Curious (formerly For the Love of Nature), co-hosts Katy Reiss and Laura Fawks Lapole challenge each other to a hilarious game of animal sound charades. Can you guess which animals they're trying to imitate? From the bugling of elk to the squeaks of bats, this mini-sode is filled with wild sounds and lots of laughs. Tune in to see who wins this vocal showdown and learn a few fun facts about each animal along the way.

Perfect for nature lovers, animal enthusiasts, and anyone looking for a good laugh.

Transcript

Hello, and welcome to For the Love of Nature, a podcast where we tell you everything you need to know about nature and probably more than you wanted to know. I'm Laura.
And I'm Katy, and this is the last of the mini-sodes, right? Before our next season seven kicks off, which is nuts.
Yeah, but we did promise you guys that you would not miss a week of the sound of somebody's voice.
Speaking of sound, Laura and I decided to be complete idiots, because our mini-sodes, we did, well, like the mythical creatures and things like that, but we decided we would just want to do something fun that wouldn't take very long, because it is a mini-sode. So we are going to do like a animal sound charade, where we each have three animals picked, and we have to imitate the sound of the animal and hope the other person guesses it correctly.
Yeah, and we tried to make it like, you know, it's not impossible.
Yeah, yeah.
It's not such an obscure animal that we're never going to know it.
Yeah, hopefully.
And we apologize in advance for the crazy noise. You might want to turn down your car speakers or your headphones, depending on the animal. Just warning in advance.
All right, Laura, do you want to, we're probably, we're going to pause a little bit. So do you want to go ahead and play?
I'm already ready to go.
You're ready? Okay, let's hear it.
Okay, ready?
I am ready.
The problem is going to be, can Laura not laugh long enough to get these animal sounds out? I should have just done all laughing animals, like hyena and stuff.
Right.
Okay, here we go, ready?
I'm ready.
Okay, you're like, on repeat.
Engaged in here the first time. Me blowing out my mic.
Thanks for the warning. Okay, give me at least one tiny hint for it.
Okay, it's the scream. I was literally just about to do it again. The hint, big animal.
Oh, an elk.
You missed a little bit of the bugling there as well. Can you please bugle, Laura?
That was the best bugle I had. Yeah, it was the elk. So real quick, just because we also were like, okay, we'll do it, we'll guess it, and then like, I get like two seconds of natural history.
Not that we didn't already talk about the elk before and the could you ride that? Because I'm bound and determined to ride an elk. But it is big brown deer.
The end.
Used to be found over much of the Northern Hemisphere, but because of habitat loss and hunting, lots that area has shrunk. They live in open woodlands, they're herbivores and browsers, social and living herds and are crepuscular, which means dawn and dusk. The end.
All right, elk. All right, I'm gonna pause real quick for mine. All right, you ready?
Yep.
Your face is like, yep. All right, ready?
Oh my gosh, I actually swear I know this one.
Shiza, I know I know this one. It's a bird, right? Is it a bird?
No, no, but I know what bird you're thinking of. It's not a bird. Mammal.
A mammal, a mammal that goes, wom, wom, wom.
Because it's a long call.
A long call, man. A primate?
Yep. Of the great variety.
Of the great variety. I couldn't offhand orangutan.
Exactly, yeah. An orangutan long call.
Nice.
So hold on, let me put it away.
Yeah, play the real one.
I mean, you sounded just like it.
Thank you, thank you.
I was thinking there was a bird that sounds just like that, and I can't think of what it is. Some kind of like drumming thing.
Yeah, it's like the shoe bill. The shoe head stork. Yeah, because it sounds like a thump.
All right, go ahead.
Okay.
Your next one.
All right, I'm ready.
I also wish I could do it better than the, like the...
But it's still, okay, okay, so it's more squeaking than flutter?
Yeah, yeah, it's not, that sounded like a dolphin. It's not a dolphin.
Is it a mammal?
Yes.
Squirrel?
Oh no, but close. It does sound very chittery like that, but it's not, it's not. It is North America.
Raccoon.
Yes, it's the raccoon. Here's the real got version, guys.
I can't do that exact, mine wasn't raspy enough, but yeah, there you go.
Like an emphysema raccoon.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Raccoon, small mammal, overall gray-brown, with a black mask, black feet, black striped tail, nocturnal, great climbers, cute.
I didn't do my background on the orangutan, but I feel like everybody knows that too. We've talked about them before, but you just said raccoon, and we really need to, side note, make the Save the Pygmy raccoon.
Yes, yes, because we have talked about the Pygmy raccoon before.
Yeah, yeah.
Also, did you know that this raccoon, the raccoon that lives around here, when I was typing in raccoon, the other name for it is the Guadalupe raccoon? And so I was so thrown, I was like, why would it be called that? But anyway.
Okay, hold on, let me pause real quick. All right, this one's gonna be an interesting one. I try to pick animals that I like that would give you a little bit of hint.
I almost chose one that I am almost sure that you probably did choose, and I was like, if I choose that one, and she did choose it, then I'm already gonna know what it is, so I didn't. So I'm hoping you are gonna do this one.
I don't know. I can actually do like some gorillas and some chimps and stuff, like and some monkeys.
Yeah, I can do a barred owl really well, but I felt like that was too much of a giveaway.
After we're done here, we'll do our other ones that we can actually do. Because listen, I don't think I've ever made Luke laugh so hard. The one time whenever him and I had a monkey call competition in the car the one day, and so anyway, okay, so this one.
Ready? Oh God.
Okay, squirrel.
No, mammal. It is like chirping, but you can't hear.
A chirping mammal.
But you can't hear them, but you can.
A bat!
Yes!
Okay, it was only the clue, it was only the clue. But now that I hear it, I did sound like a bat. It did.
Also, an impossible one to actually do. Like, that's an impossible call.
Wait, wait, wait.
Not really!
Okay, here it is.
It's, you sounded exactly like that.
Told ya.
Told ya. All right, here's my last one. I feel like, I definitely think you're, well, I really hope so.
Otherwise, I'm gonna feel really bad about myself that I'm not doing a very good job, because I really think that you should get this, but it might not be the first thing that comes to your head. Also, sound note, okay. Or volume note, I should say.
I'll just stay back a little bit.
Thank you. Yeah.
Okay, the trill was pretty good. So it's gotta be like a, it's a dog of some sort.
Yes.
So it's either gotta be like a dingo, or like a...
More local than a dingo.
Coyote.
Yes, yes.
Yes, okay.
I was like, what the heck?
I know what trill, because you had like that one tiny part in there where it was like a trill, and I'm like, oh yeah, I know what that is.
Yeah, like this weird garble it sounds.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.
It's very yodely.
Yes.
It's more fun than a wolf.
Yeah, way more fun than a wolf. I mean, they look like they're having more fun than wolves. I mean, they are, cause they're not all dead.
But okay, let me pause for a second.
Coyotes are thriving. So real quick, coyotes look like a mangy dog, kind of like a German shepard, but a little more lanky. They're smaller than wolves, but bigger than foxes.
Native to North and Central America, they live pretty much anywhere. And although they're mainly carnivorous, they will also eat fruits and veggies. Not as social wolves, but will sometimes hunt in a pack, and they're mainly nocturnal.
And ironically, they're the most vocal of all North American wild animals, wild mammals.
Okay, you ready?
Yep.
My third one. Oh God. I should have done ones that I know, already know I can do.
You know what I mean? Instead of just picking like obscure ones, I'm like, oh, I'm sure I can do this.
I practiced for a second on the couch, but.
I did not. Very briefly. I just assumed I could make these sounds, which I thought would be more fun.
All right, so let's do like a. Oh God, I don't even know how to start this one.
There's no animal call there, just something.
Was all ready that I looked at your face, and you were like, I was so ready.
You were already waiting.
So ready, I don't know if I could do this. I should have practiced before I did these. Okay, we're here.
I'll give you one that I know I can actually do. I was gonna say.
You're gonna switch halfway through? Wait, what was that one?
Yes, a red dog. All right, are you ready? Yeah.
It's the chopping and it's the predatory call. Okay, ready? Ready?
See, pretty damn good.
Pretty good one.
Better than my red-toe hawk.
The red-toe hawk, whenever I've imitated that one. Like...
Like a fossil hose, like spewing.
But still can't.
No, I think my best animal...
I was debating on whether or not to do like the cackle of it. You know what I mean?
Because that was gonna be mine. Dude, I couldn't. I was gonna do the cuckoo burra, and then I was like, nah, I can't do the cuckoo burra.
Yeah. No, I'm surprised I didn't, but yeah, no.
But I think the only... Well, besides like, you know, all the normal sounds, like dog, cat, I can do all those. But then my other, I feel like the one that I can do pretty well is the barred owl, which is like...
Okay, but also, I still, the owl that just fascinated and just still makes me laugh to this day is a barred owl.
Oh yeah, but who can make that noise? Like, I mean, she's... I can't scream that high.
It's just a bloody murder scream.
Just the loudest of screams. Anyway, so sorry, everybody.
I can do a baby bird, ready? Wait.
Besides my chimp.
Yeah. All right. Well, hopefully, you haven't had enough of us.
I was like, I don't know how to wrap that up, Laura.
That was the end of the in-betweenness of season six and season seven. Next week, start season seven. Be sure to come back.
Bless your souls.
It's gonna be a great one, like normal.
Like normal. All right. Bye, everyone.
Bye, everybody.