All Turtles Message Board

toxiceagle2007 · Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 7:00 pm Post subject: Turtle Noises

I swear I heard my turtle MEOW. This is the weirdest thing ever, but I thought there was a cat in my room, and I looked over, and one of my turtles was meowing!!!!! Did my turtle eat a cat or is this normal?? BTW, it didn\'t seem like a sickly cough or sneeze noise, more like my turtle was trying to sing or something!
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STRAYKINGFISHER · Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 9:23 am Post subject: Re: Turtle Noises

It is what is known as vocalization, kind of a mix between a meow and a low growl but so quiet you can barely hear it. Like the turtle in this wav file:
http://www.tortoise.org/audio/klein.wav
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toxiceagle2007 · Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 2:02 pm Post subject: Re: Turtle Noises

Yep, that was the noise. It was really weird, I have never heard either of my RES\'s make a noise before. Thanks!
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STRAYKINGFISHER · Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 3:01 pm Post subject: Re: Turtle Noises

You\'re welcome:D
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VersteckterGeist · Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 8:09 pm Post subject:

wow! that's really interesting!

i've been hearing that a lot in my room lately (i have my turtle's tank set up in there) and i just thought i had a frog in my room! (the wildlife tends to take over my house.. )

but i'm glad you asked, because i had no idea what it was myself.. lol Wink

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