# Ant Noises **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 24, 2004, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ant-noises/256637 "2004-07-24T03:10:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![START](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@START](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/START)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ant-noises/256637/1 "2004-07-24T03:10:50Z")
If you have seen the movie “Honey I Shrunk the Kids” you will remember that they catch a baby ant and ride it across the yard to get closer to the house and eventually the Ant met up with a scorpion and put on a good fight but died. While it was dying it was making like purring type noises and cooing. My question is do Ants really make those type of sounds? ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ant-noises/256637/2 "2004-07-24T03:23:24Z")
[Sort of](http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20000205/bob12.asp) > [@](#): > > The other obvious ant sound, the squeak that people can sometimes detect, comes from stridulation. This high-pitched rasping of one surface against another occurs frequently in animals, most famously among cicadas, katydids, and crickets but also catfish and, some scientists argue, sea horses. ---
**Author:** ![START](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@START](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/START)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ant-noises/256637/3 "2004-07-24T07:19:25Z")
Thank You 😃