# What animal makes this sound?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 5, 2021, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-animal-makes-this-sound/945700 "2021-07-05T03:18:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2021, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-animal-makes-this-sound/945700/1 "2021-07-05T03:18:42Z")

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I was noticing tonight how the local somethings in trees were _really_ numerous and active, (after torrential rains a couple of days back–they are always very active after rain in warm weather) overwhelming the local fireworks. I had always assumed that they were tree frogs, but decided to look up which. I found that the calls don’t match either of the two tree frog species that I’ve actually seen here (the Gray tree frog _Hyla versicolor_ and the Green tree frog _Dryophytes cinereus_) so now I don’t know what they are. Some different type of tree frog I have somehow never seen? Some type of cricket or katydid?

(Upstate South Carolina.)

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/DdjYjcBMnxI/hqdefault.jpg "Animal sound") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdjYjcBMnxI)

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**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2021, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-animal-makes-this-sound/945700/2 "2021-07-05T03:23:22Z")

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Aren’t they just cicadas? The exact sound varies among species, there are a variety of them in the youtube video halfway down this page, jump through it to hear different sounds:

> **[Most of All, Cicadas Sound Like Summertime](https://www.theringer.com/pop-culture/2021/5/11/22428860/cicadas-emerging-sound-of-summer-nostalgia)**
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> As the Brood X cohort emerge from the ground for the first time in 17 years, summer can officially begin

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**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2021, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-animal-makes-this-sound/945700/3 "2021-07-05T03:32:13Z")

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I don’t know–it is nothing that I’ve ever thought of as a cicada sound.

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**Author:** ![Sigene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sigene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigene)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2021, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-animal-makes-this-sound/945700/4 "2021-07-05T05:45:27Z")

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not surprisingly, there is a website to check out and identify cicadas by their sound

> **[Cicada Songs, Audio, Sounds, NoIsE](https://www.cicadamania.com/cicadas/cicada-songs-audio-sounds-noise/)**
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> Select North American Annual Cicada Species D. olympusa Chorus. Recorded in Florida by Joe Green. D. viridifascia Call. Recorded in Florida by Joe Green. M. resonans Call. Recorded in Florida by Joe Green. N. hieroglyphica hieroglyphica Call....

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**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2021, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-animal-makes-this-sound/945700/5 "2021-07-05T17:57:01Z")

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Sounds like a Slinky to me. Is there a large staircase anywhere nearby?