Comments on: Cheetah Chirps and Gibbon Duets http://blogs.sandiegozoo.org/blog/2006/08/22/cheetah-chirps-and-gibbon-duets/ Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:34:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Paula Helm Murray http://blogs.sandiegozoo.org/blog/2006/08/22/cheetah-chirps-and-gibbon-duets/comment-page-1/#comment-11174 Paula Helm Murray Thu, 31 Aug 2006 05:46:42 +0000 http://www.sandiegozoo.org/wordpress/general/cheetah-chirps-and-gibbon-duets/#comment-11174 I wish I could have heard that. Just before I left on vacation I was treated to a pair of warblers that had set up shop for the moment in trees in the parking lot of my office (Overland Park and Kansas City are very much open woodland cities, they leave trees here, and I live in a woodland that hasn't been disturbed since about 1912 except for trees that die...). They were probably males and exchanging challenges. I wish I could see better or had a pair of field glasses on me, the birds were less than 4" and appeared to have a light throat patch but for the rest of ID I'm lost. They stuck to the shade of the leaves. It left me listening for a bit and trying to see them, too. But the fact that they were exchanging a recognizable pattern song with a bit of variation for each bird was fascinating. Keep up the good work. I wish I could have heard that.

Just before I left on vacation I was treated to a pair of warblers that had set up shop for the moment in trees in the parking lot of my office (Overland Park and Kansas City are very much open woodland cities, they leave trees here, and I live in a woodland that hasn’t been disturbed since about 1912 except for trees that die…). They were probably males and exchanging challenges. I wish I could see better or had a pair of field glasses on me, the birds were less than 4″ and appeared to have a light throat patch but for the rest of ID I’m lost. They stuck to the shade of the leaves. It left me listening for a bit and trying to see them, too.

But the fact that they were exchanging a recognizable pattern song with a bit of variation for each bird was fascinating.

Keep up the good work.

]]> By: Shirley Sykes http://blogs.sandiegozoo.org/blog/2006/08/22/cheetah-chirps-and-gibbon-duets/comment-page-1/#comment-10922 Shirley Sykes Wed, 23 Aug 2006 16:17:55 +0000 http://www.sandiegozoo.org/wordpress/general/cheetah-chirps-and-gibbon-duets/#comment-10922 Sagan, thanks so much for the really interesting information about cheetah vocalizations. Somehow I had missed your earlier blog on this subject and appreciated having the link to it. And I do love listening to the gibbons vocalizing. I get to the zoo far more frequently than to the park, and often hear them as I walk through the Sun Bear Forest. And their cousins, the siamangs, also put on a wonderful musical show most mornings. Everything you and your fellow researchers learn about all these wonderful and endangered species is so important! Sagan, thanks so much for the really interesting information about cheetah vocalizations. Somehow I had missed your earlier blog on this subject and appreciated having the link to it. And I do love listening to the gibbons vocalizing. I get to the zoo far more frequently than to the park, and often hear them as I walk through the Sun Bear Forest. And their cousins, the siamangs, also put on a wonderful musical show most mornings.
Everything you and your fellow researchers learn about all these wonderful and endangered species is so important!

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