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Sorry if this is the wrong place to pose this question . . . .

I have just spent a few nights in iMfolozi, staying in the tented camp. I was woken one night by quite loud, short, sharp ?exhalations close to our tent. The sort of sound you might make if a fly flew into your face and you blew it fiercely away. (but louder and sharper)That's the only way I can describe it. So - is it a warning sound from one of the antelopes? A bush pig? What?


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Alarm calls of antelope







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Was it right in the middle of the night? -O-


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Sounds Like a Mozzie ...did you put on Tabard before going to Bed


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@ klipspringer - thanks. it was none of those. In tone perhaps closest to impala but shorter, sharper.

@Richardprins - well I cant say exactly but somewhere between midnight and 03.00 . . . .

@Peter Betts - oh shoot! You mean mozzies exhale as well as whine? And don't tell me its only when they pierce your flesh; I don't want to know that . . . .

Anyway :ty: all .


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I would guess ratel then! ..0..


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Richprins wrote: Mon Aug 19, 2019 7:53 am I would guess ratel then! ..0..
It seems possible, but none of the literature mentions this sound. :-?


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They never shut up! lol


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Oookaaaay . . . . literature or the ratels?


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