This is a typical Gray Squirrel call and I don't think anybody knows why
they do it. I've heard an individual in the distance giving this or similar
calls, and when I approach I' ve seen no obvious stimulus. Sometimes two
individuals will be giving such calls together. In any event, I don't think
one should assume it was given in response to a human presence.
Lang
Not quite sure if this will do, but when I was hunting around for
cicadas to record close up, there was a squirrel a couple feet up in
the tree that was barking. I can't verify that he was indeed making
noises at me - he might have been angry at a cicada :) It's right
around the 1-2 second mark. He was making other noises, but I only got
the last one on tape.
http://www.thepuritan.com/~tgray/cicada/Squirrel.mp3
Tim
On Jun 26, 2004, at 2:38 PM, Con Slobodchikoff wrote:
> I am currently in the process of constructing a phylogeny of
> the
> alarm calls of the five species of prairie dogs in North America. My
> students and I have recorded the alarm calls given to a human by all
> the
> five species of prairie dogs, and now I would like to do a cladistic
> analysis of our data. For the cladistic analysis, I need an outgroup
> data
> point, an alarm call for a human from a non-prairie dog animal that is
> relatively closely related to prairie dogs. The outgroup serves as a
> reference point against which the prairie dog species can be compared
> in
> the cladistic analysis program that I am using.
> Other ground squirrels in the genus Spermophilus (this group
> includes the rock squirrel, the Columbian ground squirrel, the
> California
> ground squirrel, the thirteen-lined ground squirrel, the golden-mantled
> g.s., the Richardson's g.s., the Belding's g.s., among others) would be
> perfect as an outgroup. We need a call given for a human because we
> know
> that prairie dogs have different alarm calls to different predators
> such as
> humans, dogs, coyotes, and hawks, and it is possible that other ground
> squirrels might also have such fine-scaled distinctions in their calls.
> Does anyone have an alarm call from any of the ground squirrel
> species, that they know has been given in response to a human? And if
> you
> have such an alarm call, would you be willing to send me the call and
> have
> me use it in my cladistic analysis?
> Thanks!
>
> Con Slobodchikoff
>
>
> Dr. C. N. Slobodchikoff
> Professor of Biology
> Northern Arizona University
> Flagstaff, AZ 86011 USA
> Phone: 928-523-7231
> Fax: 928-523-7500
> Web Page: http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~cns3
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> "Microphones are not ears,
> Loudspeakers are not birds,
> A listening room is not nature."
> Klas Strandberg
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