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Re: porcupines-quarrelling

Subject: Re: porcupines-quarrelling
From: "Chad Clifford"
Date: Thu May 22, 2014 8:03 pm ((PDT))
Thanks Ray,
I have only heard it a handful of times.  Otherwise they are  slow moving and 
seemingly un-aggressive.  But are chatty and can be heard making sounds while 
eating or walking.
Chad



On May 22, 2014, at 6:14 PM, Ray Mansell  
[naturerecordists] <> wrote:

> 
> Hi Chad,
> 
> That's really ferocious-sounding! Porcupines are uncommon here, so I've never 
> heard anything quite like it before.
> 
> Nice job,
> Ray
> 
> 
> On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 2:51 PM, CHAD CLIFFORD  
> [naturerecordists]<> wrote:
>  
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> This interesting and seemingly ferocious sounds that occurred on 2014 May 20 
> at 11:30p.m. about 70 minutes West of Ottawa.  There was no moon and it was 
> very dark.  The porcupines quarrelled along the ground and then in a tree.  
> The sounds here are from the tree area.  The recording was from 20metres away 
> with a parabolic dish (a pair of EM172 mics & battery box) and ZoomH4N 
> recorder.  I did not actually see any of this in the dark.  But have come 
> across this sort of event before in the Spring.  Territorial disputes?  The 
> one animal sounds a little aggressive with its growls and made me wonder at 
> times if it was actually a Fisher attack on a Porcupine (we have plenty of 
> both species here).  But no signs of blood in that area today...will check 
> again more closely later today.
> 
> My mic levels were certainly off initially with the loud spikes in sound. The 
> original recording was about 40 minutes....no post processing besides cutting 
> a few quieter times out.
> 
> https://soundcloud.com/chad-clifford-1/porcupines-quarrelling  
> 
> Chadwick Clifford
> 
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"While a picture is worth a thousand words, a 
sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie Krause.



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