Canadian children’s book author and illustrator Lulu Lotus recently set the Guinness World Record for loudest nose whistle, with an impressive 44.1dB snoot hooter. That’s about as loud as a bird’s call. In her own words while I go blow my nose (technically pick) so it stops unintentionally whistling when
This is a video of Australian magpies R2-D2, Baldy, and Mrs. R2 singing to produce what can only be described as a terrible sound. It’s like electronic distortion. When they sing individually they actually sound pleasant, but when they get the whole band together it’s just a cacophony. That said,
This is a video of Jabber, a beautiful human-imprinted European starling mimicking its owner, and throwing in a surprisingly accurate R2-D2 impression just to keep things spicy. And you know how I feel about spicy! Actually you might not, but I love it. I even did that Paqui One Chip
This is a video of Hank the donkey of Triple Brook Farm in Ball Ground, Georgia greeting caretaker Tabitha with a series of good morning brays to get the day started off right. Now I kind of want a donkey to hit me with a good morning hello to get
Because it’s a dog-eat-dog kid-eat-dog-toy world, this is a video of 13-year old Johnathan Serrano squeaking whenever he talks or laughs after accidentally swallowing the noisemaker from inside a dog toy. Some more details while I wonder just how many Tide Pods Johnathan has managed to get down: [He] told
This is a video documenting the rarely heard sounds of a mangrove whipray and cowtail stingray in the wild. I’ll be the first to admit, I didn’t know stingrays even made sounds. They’re sort of clicks. I wonder what they’re saying. Because at least in my mind they’re apologizing for
Because who needs a hotel courtesy call when you live next to a donkey, this is a video of a tiny donkey belting out his morning wake up call. I….was not expecting that. I’m not sure what I was expecting, but I do know it wasn’t that. Also, not to