What wild animal makes a sound like a man snoring?

'Sure seems gator-ish to me. Listen to the first clip and the "Alligator Bellow 1" clip on this website and see if either of them sound like what you're hearing. www.soundboard.com... And, be careful out there! Those suckers can run.

a reply to: NightSkyeB4Dawn

Here you go, snoring animals, take your pick...

originally posted by: graceunderpressure
'Sure seems gator-ish to me. Listen to the first clip and the "Alligator Bellow 1" clip on this website and see if either of them sound like what you're hearing. www.soundboard.com... And, be careful out there! Those suckers can run.

I am very familiar with gator sounds. This isn't a gator.

I just thought of something though. I am not sure if it is relevant, but I have had bee hives, about 160, placed on my property recently. That is the only thing that I have done differently around here.

I wounder if it is related, and no. The hives are not even close to where the animal sounds were heard.

originally posted by: WP4YT
Alligator.

talking alligators.... we have a preserve down here at the beach called 'Brookgreen Gardens' on the land side of the highway...

but on the ocean side of the highway is the wetlands area of a mega acre plantation.. .
on part of the ocean side road to the beach and a 'castle' on the ocean front ...is a stopping point in the marshland where the Mud-Marshall Park Rangers feed the alligators twice a day & the public is invited to participate...

we are told that clapping your hands is the 'call' to come-get-your-food to the salt-water alligators here in the briny marsh areas... the alligators make a distinct dog 'bark' sound in response...

but I never heard a gator make a 'snore' sound---but hey, I don't get around gators every day like Cajuns or Florida people are able to do.

a reply to: WeRpeons

Cute. The elephant came the closest, just not that deep.

Thanks.

I suspect a south Florida Cougar.

originally posted by: Nickn3
I suspect a south Florida Cougar.

i suspected my father. But later identified it as a sleeping elephant.

originally posted by: WP4YT
Alligator.

You need three exclamation points to match your avatar.
"Alligator!!!"

It just clicked in my reptillian hind-brain.
This is breeding season for gators.
You are probably hearing a male shopping for some tail.
You and your dogs may want to watch where you step.

A leopard.

Frogs?

originally posted by: skunkape23
It just clicked in my reptillian hind-brain.
This is breeding season for gators.
You are probably hearing a male shopping for some tail.
You and your dogs may want to watch where you step.

Went out early today. I didn't bother with it last night, too much to do because I have to finish the fence today. Hanging the gate was the more time consuming of the job. Today it is just drudge work.

Anyway, whatever it is stinks to high heaven, so I definitely am ruling out gator.

originally posted by: NightSkyeB4Dawn

originally posted by: skunkape23
It just clicked in my reptillian hind-brain.
This is breeding season for gators.
You are probably hearing a male shopping for some tail.
You and your dogs may want to watch where you step.

Anyway, whatever it is stinks to high heaven, so I definitely am ruling out gator.

Alligators don't stink.
I'm going with skunk ape.
Leave some apples out and see if they disappear.

a reply to: NightSkyeB4Dawn

Gators. They can make some wild noises, and the dogs would likely avoid them as well. When we were in Florida, our Rottie mix avoided a storm drain once for two weeks, during the season the gators breed and move through such areas. I'd be very cautious about poking around looking.

Maybe this is way off, otherwise someone would have mentioned it, but here the bucks make some pretty strange noise during mating season -which is in October and November!

An example-


deer sounds

The mating season for deer is end of October and beginning of November- The first time I heard one, it freaked me out, the sound was even stranger than what those links show. But we saw the buck, so I know that's what it was.

Both does and bucks mark the area with hormones, which dogs can pick up.

a reply to: Bluesma
Thanks Blue. I am still laughing at my female Ridgeback. While I was playing the sounds, she sounded like she was trying to answer them.

Maybe she is multilingual.

One of the sounds was close, but it was too sharp. If it was a little lower and muffled, it would be closer to the sound we heard.

By the way, I haven't heard it for almost a week, but I really haven't gone out of my to listen either, so whatever it was it seems to have passed, along with the heavy, musky stench that was worse just around dusk and first light.

originally posted by: ManBehindTheMask
Hogs and sometimes large cats can make noises similar depending on what they are doing

But Like others have said id probably go with hogs

My 25 pound domestic cat snores like a human being, but that's offtopic, since you're suggesting a wild animal.
Hedgehog is my best bet as well, since they can make really loud human-like noises.

a reply to: NightSkyeB4Dawn

Kaine vs Pence. That is the ultimate wild man

originally posted by: truckfortruck
a reply to: NightSkyeB4Dawn

Kaine vs Pence. That is the ultimate wild man

That is funny.