But here's an attempt: "WRAHHHHHGH!!!!" Foxes are wild animals as well and haven't been successfully domesticated in the same way as dogs were from wolves, making them less familiar to earlier humans who first made up the words to describe the sounds made by other animals. It isn't exactly easy to describe a scream, for example. The difficulty of putting fox sounds into words is certainly one obvious reason. "We don't know quite what it means," he added.Īs the song notes, the characteristic sounds of other animals are better known, or at least codified in a recognizable form of onomatopoeia like "woof" or "meow." But why aren't fox calls better known? In addition to growling, foxes can also make a guttural sound in the back of their throat called "clicketing," which generally happens during the mating season, Harris said. Perhaps this is the fox version of "squee." But foxes also squeal when they are excited, Harris said.
For example, squeals can be used to show that one fox is submitting to another. The animals also emit a wide variety of whines and squeals that have different meanings that can change based on the context and the fox's body language. The bark sounds a little bit like "wow-wow-wow," he added. "Even when they're newborn and blind they call to their mother to keep in touch," Harris said.
Studies on other species of foxes show that the animals can recognize each other based on their calls, which isn't that surprising, Harris added.įox cubs also bark, in a way that's similar to adults. The bark sounds similar to that of a dog, except slightly higher pitched and sometimes shrill. All of a sudden, "a vixen came down about 5 feet behind me and screamed in a very loud voice - I leapt straight out of my skin," he said.įoxes also commonly bark, which is generally used as another type of contact call to reach out to friends or rivals, Harris said. One time in the 1970s, Harris tracked a fox through a cemetery, and lost track of the animal - It was a very dark and cold night.
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