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fire-eyez
12-22-2010, 05:24 PM
hey everyone I heard my little diesel making some sort of barking noise and was wondering what it meant.....thanks

lilidukes
12-22-2010, 05:45 PM
That's usually a warning sound.:tilt

fire-eyez
12-22-2010, 05:53 PM
a warning to what?lol to me or becauseof me

Kristal
12-22-2010, 06:36 PM
They are naturally wary creatures, and it seems that when they have nothing to be a afraid of, they tend to invent something. Maybe you were wearing a funny hat or there was a shoe sitting in the middle of the room looking like it might jump on him? :)

They also have fantastic hearing and a very, very good sense of smell, so it could also be something out of the ordinary that he can perceive but we can't.

Also, if this is the new kit, everything is unfamiliar and potentially dangerous to him right now, including you. It will take some time before he feels familiar with his new surroundings.

fire-eyez
12-22-2010, 06:47 PM
:D lol ok maybe because one moment we were wrestling the next moment he ran on top of the cage and started barking lol and then ran back to me to snuggle and give me kisses on my hand lol i guess it was a bipolar moment:thankyou

mugzeezma
12-22-2010, 06:53 PM
Was he lashing his tail back and forth?

That's agitation. Something upset him.

Some are more vocal in general.
Finnagin emits short barks when he enters the room and barks when he plays.
they have a fairly limited repertoire. Barks, grunt's, squeaks, squeals, chatters...I don't like the monkey chatters... they are terrified and hurt when they do that.

A warning sounds a lot like the cry of a Red Tail Hawk...it's a long piecing shriek.

Kristal
12-22-2010, 07:13 PM
Oh, I don't know about that... I think they do pretty well with their repertoire. You also forgot the famous coo-purr greeting, btw, and the click-chit warning/all clear signal. Their grunts can have a lot of variation as far as tone and enunciation goes, too. Rifa has a particular noise that she only makes for onions whenever she finds me chopping those instead of avocados :D I wish I had it recorded because it is hilarious :rotfl

In all they sound like something between a mogwai (from the movie Gremlins) and a rat and a cat to me. I :Love_Icon squirrel talk :)

We should make an online resource of their various sounds. Until I lived with squirrels I thought that they were mostly silent, actually.

mugzeezma
12-22-2010, 07:30 PM
Oh, I don't know about that... I think they do pretty well with their repertoire. You also forgot the famous coo-purr greeting, btw, and the click-chit warning/all clear signal. Their grunts can have a lot of variation as far as tone and enunciation goes, too. Rifa has a particular noise that she only makes for onions whenever she finds me chopping those instead of avocados :D I wish I had it recorded because it is hilarious :rotfl

In all they sound like something between a mogwai (from the movie Gremlins) and a rat and a cat to me. I :Love_Icon squirrel talk :)

We should make an online resource of their various sounds. Until I lived with squirrels I thought that they were mostly silent, actually.


I was speaking in terms of there mechanical ability to form sound...they do pretty well for what the have

I often wonder if they emit and ultra or sub sonic calls beyond our range of hearing.
I know my Degu does...the kids hear things that are almost out of my hearing range.

muffinsquirrel
12-23-2010, 12:56 AM
I was speaking in terms of there mechanical ability to form sound...they do pretty well for what the have

I often wonder if they emit and ultra or sub sonic calls beyond our range of hearing.
I know my Degu does...the kids hear things that are almost out of my hearing range.

The flyers definately use ultra sonic sound for communicating, particularly mommas and babies. It makes me SO MAD that my daughter can hear them when I can't! There are studies being done on whether or not they use echolocation, as bats do.

muffinsquirrel

mugzeezma
12-23-2010, 07:31 AM
The flyers definately use ultra sonic sound for communicating, particularly mommas and babies. It makes me SO MAD that my daughter can hear them when I can't! There are studies being done on whether or not they use echolocation, as bats do.

muffinsquirrel

Time for us to get our hearing aids tuned,eh? :rotfl