Unidentified - Possible vocalizations of a Mountain Beaver (Sewellel)
Common Name
Mountain Beaver (Sewellel)
Scientific Name
Aplodontia rufa
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Craniata
Class
Mammalia
Order
Rodentia
Family
Aplodontiidae
Genus
Aplodontia
Subject
Mammals; Places; Nature sounds
Spatial Coverage
Seattle (Wash.); King County (Wash.); Washington (State)
Creator
Rice, Jeff
Media Rights Management
Audio file copyright 2009, Jeff Rice. Use of this audio file is allowed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/
Publisher
Western Soundscape Archive; University of Utah
Date
2009-06-15
Type
Sound
Format
video/mp4
Digitization Specifications
Compressed from .wav format into .mp3 delivery format
Contributing Institution
J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112; Ecological and animal data provided by NatureServe. NatureServe Explorer: An online encyclopedia of life [web application]. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia. Available http://www.natureserve.org/explorer
A tape recorder was left overnight at a confirmed Mountain Beaver burrow in the north Seattle area; the animal was not observed vocalizing, but a tentative i.d. of the sound was made based on the proximity of the animal; the Peterson Field Guide to Mammals of North America describes the sound as "Usually silent, sometimes makes soft whines or sobs, also may squeal or grind teeth. Probably does not "boom" despite the old vernacular name "boomer"; local time: approximately 2 AM
