My two year old daughter is getting pretty good at identifying African antelopes. Waterbuck, topi, mountain nyala, and gerenuk are four she likes to see regularly (you probably know where she sees those regularly). We drove up to a gun store in Pennsylvania, and she surprised me and a couple bystanders by saying "that's a big daddy kudu!" referring to a kudu head in the store.

Lately she has been routinely stumping me with her curiosity. Now, after identifying an antelope from its picture, she wants to know what sound it makes. The game runs something like this:

Me: "What's that?"
Her: "That's a lechwe"
Me: "That's right"
Her: "What's a lechwe say?"
Me: "I don't know".

Me: "What's that?"
Her: "That's a waterbuck"
Me: "That's right"
Her: "What's a waterbuck say?"...

Do you know of a good site for recordings of African antelope vocalizations? Or a list of what people generally say to indicate the animal's sound (quack, moo, oink...) I imagine native Africans have quite a vocabulary of what thus and such animal says in a given situation.

H. C.

Henry,
I picked up a CD in Pretoria at the Museum of Natural history that is of actual recorded animal sounds. I'll see if I can't find it for you.

PM me for shipping details.

Rob

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http://africanhuntinginfo.com/modules/content/index.php...ba0ab265ede3451d7b3c

Do a google search and you can find an amazing number of bird and animals calls. Kudude

Try the African Hunter Magazine's website. They have a CD that has what you want on it. I just can't recall how extensive it is.

What is the weather like down there?

You might want to buy a book called "The Safari Companion" by Richard Estes to get good written descriptions of African animal behaviour. Here is a link to the book description http://www.chelseagreen.com/1992/items/safaricompanion I believe it is available in the USA from www.chelseagreen.com According to that book, gerenuk mothers and fawns "bleat" to each other and males make a "humming" noise during courtship. The few times I have been able to view at close range any Gerenuk, they kept darn quiet.

I would add that the publishing house looks more like an animal rights type of publisher than a hunting crowd editor. The author however, in his book, only mentions "meat" hunting (read poaching) when talking about the reduction of wildlife and doesn't make any disparaging remarks about trophy hunting.