# Voices of animals

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 15, 2005, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voices-of-animals/308403 "2005-06-15T17:09:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voices-of-animals/308403/1 "2005-06-15T17:09:42Z")

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Among animals that produce vocal sounds, are adult female voices higher than those of males, as they generally are in humans?

And do the males experience a “change of voice” at puberty, as human males do?

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voices-of-animals/308403/2 "2005-06-16T21:03:47Z")

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\*\*Nobody \*\*know anything about this?

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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voices-of-animals/308403/3 "2005-06-16T21:26:19Z")

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It’s not really possible to generalize. In many animals, the female does not call at all, or has a completely different call. In animals in which the male is larger, the call is often deeper just due to the body size difference. I would guess, offhand, that in animals in which the female is larger, the call might very well be deeper. Where adult makes have a distinctive call, younger males may have a period during which they go from giving juvenile type calls to adult male type calls.

However, your question is much to broad to really give a good answer too.

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**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voices-of-animals/308403/4 "2005-06-16T21:39:14Z")

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> [@Colibri](#):
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> However, your question is much to broad to really give a good answer too.

…heh…‘broad’ …