A fawn can cry like that. I had one crying once at my place, don’t know why, but it did sound like a person.
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A fawn can cry like that. I had one crying once at my place, don’t know why, but it did sound like a person.[/QUOTE]
funny, I was just about to ask what types of deer you have near you. I’ll try and find a recording.
If there are several Muntjac deer nearby it can sound very weird - here is a recording of a couple of muntjac:
http://nickpenny.com/muntjacscalling220708.mp3
And a lone deer - it can really sound like someone crying out ‘help, help’
http://nickpenny.com/muntjaccall050508.mp3
Here is a good site for identifying different fox calls
http://www.angelfire.com/ar2/thefoxden/farcry.wav
Elk sound a lot like crying babies or screaming women too!
what about a mocking bird? They mimic noises they hear… if one heard a baby crying perhaps it is now making baby crying noises?
Wolfen!
(As if anyone else has ever read that particular novel…hehehe).
If you have water around it may be a fisher, they like like to have around water for food…seldom seen but extreme killers and yes sound like a baby.
Fox- I used to hear it all the time- sounded like someone being murdered off in the distance or a baby crying-
could also be cats or a racoon
Barred Owls can make some spine-tingling ruckus before going into their “who cooks for you, who cooks for you all” call.
http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Barred_Owl/id
We have Barred Owls on our farm and they have made my hair stand on end on occasion.
Fish Crows can sound just like crying babies too, only they vocalize during the day.
Well, my DH shot a raccoon a few years ago that screamed like a toddler just before it died. It freaked both of us out. I was in the house and thought I was hearing a baby shrieking, so you can imagine my reaction when he came in 2 second later totally shaken up and holding the gun. He hasn’t shot one since.
I would say the odds are pretty low that’s what you’re hearing though… b/c you’d probably only hear it once.
I would say peacock for crying baby… but when you say maniacal- I go straight to barred owl. They sound like something primate/human with an element of demonic posession… although frightening, I would not mistake a barred owl for a baby- unless it was a posessed baby.
http://www.owling.com/Barred.htm
The sound clip all the way to the right- is the scary one.
I am very glad that one day I got to enjoy a long sighting of a barred owl in daylight- I went home and looked up his call so I would know if I ever heard him. One fall I was up in a treestand before dawn- and two of them started screaming back and forth to each other on either side of me… if I wasn’t forwarned I think I might have had a heart attack from fear i was going to be devoured by a troop of rabid baboons.
Fishers are known to be spine chilling.
Bigfoot? Just kidding…
A Basenji dog does… I had one…just like a crying baby!:yes:
Yes, indeed. When I was about 12 or so. Couldn’t get out of bed to turn the light off.
You just drove my dogs insane. I played this clip and they rushed out of the house.
They’re out there now; down by the pond. Wondering where the fox is. :lol:
Siamese cats in heat can sound like that. I wouldn’t have believed that a small cat could make that horrible, loud crying sound until I saw it myself. The neighbors had one that shrieked like that constantly, and it must have had something wrong with it, because I’ve heard they only do that when in heat.
Apparently a lot of animals sound like that. For me raccoons sound like a crying baby being murdered. It’s usually a pack or family of them fighting over food, but really, I just jump up worried then get really mad at them for making me worry.
Possums do a good crying baby imitation
One night, I was awoken by a crying toddler, the kind of wailing that had me convinced one of my seemingly normal neighbors was abusing one of their children. I would hear the crying then it would stop, when it would start again I would run over to the window nearest the sound and peer towards the house next door wondering what the heck I should do, because clearly some poor child needed help!
Finally, after I couldn’t take it anymore, I decided to step out my door. . .what I saw was my cat tormenting a large possum. The possum would try to flee (they are not very speedy) and the cat would give him a couple of swats on the behind, which would cause the possum to stop, turn and face his tormentor and wail like an abused toddler, repeat.
