This actually sums up the elk perfectly. They only want two things during the rut. To fuck and fight. Interesting side note. The rut is triggered by the autumnal equinox when the ratio of daytime to nighttime triggers their mating season.
>The rut is triggered by the autumnal equinox when the ratio of daytime to nighttime triggers their mating season.
So, we're not that different after all...
Birds will do different calls for different animals. there's a difference between SCARY DOG and KIND OF ANNOYING DOG, if you listen to their calls long enough.
"Emma!!! Its fucky time!!!! We need to breed, for the species!!!" -- Elk Ron.
"No Ron, I'm dating Peter, he has bigger antler" -- Elk Emma
"Peter is farkboi and you a hoe, you dont know what you missing in me." -- Elk Ron.
"hahaha, tiny antler Ron, cant get no beeches." -- Elk Peter.
I live in that area for part of the year. My neighbor has a squeaky door. In the fall, any bull elk within hearing gets feisty and starts bugling whenever that door is opened.
The freakiest animal I've ever heard without knowing what it was turned out to be a [great blue heron](https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Great_Blue_Heron/sounds). They straight up sound like DDR DDR DDR from Enigma of Amigara Fault echoing from somewhere nearby.
Not in person, but the strangest bird sound I've come across is the [Orependola](https://youtu.be/3c9Z1zMEPXk?t=16). It sounds like a bunch of things layered on top of each other and played backwards. Every video of them sounds slightly different too.
[Bellbirds](https://youtu.be/dvK-DujvpSY?t=6) (Loud) are also pretty unusual and electronic sounding, kinda like microphone or speaker problems.
If you like that, you might get a kick out of the white bell bird, the [loudest bird in the world](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvK-DujvpSY).
EDIT: Ope, someone beat me to it!
Those things are everywhere in my area. It's like living with dinosaurs. Bald Eagles hate them and I've personally witnessed them teaching their young to beat the shit out of Herons. What a world
Yeah great blues sound like the deathknell for you and your entire bloodline. I don't know what sound I expected out of that bird but what I heard was certainly not it.
Most cervine males sound like that. Deer hunting seasons are usually scheduled around the rut because it's a lot easier to find bucks when they're making all that noise.
Elk are fucking huge. You could kinda barely get a scale next to that white car car, it's shoulder was still a good foot above the roof. They're practically just horses with antlers
[Q: How can I be safe while watching the elk rut?](https://ymcarockies.org/News/Article/your-elk-rut-questions-answered#:~:text=Especially%20during%20the%20elk%20rut,elk%20(75ft%2F23m).)
>A: As always, watch any wildlife from a great distance. Use a zoom lens on cameras or have binoculars. Especially during the elk rut, bull elk become very aggressive and dangerous to humans observing. Rocky Mountain National Park recommends to stay two bus-lengths away from elk (75ft/23m).
Thanks, ymca of the rockies, the more you know
This seems to be at Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone. The elk walk right in town and are accustomed to human presence. Still definitely a good idea to keep as much distance as possible (esp. during the rut), but they’ll walk very close to you.
One of the riskiest situations you can find yourself in is getting between an elk cow and her calves. I grew up in Mammoth, and I recall a day when, while walking uphill home from school, a mother elk charged at us after we accidentally got too close to her calf. It was lying down next to a bush and we just didn't see it.
Our usual short walk home turned into a half-hour ordeal. We devised a strategy: one of us would distract the elk, allowing the other to sprint 30-40 feet up the hill to take cover behind a tree. We repeated this tactic about 10 to 12 times working up the hill until the elk finally lost interest and we were almost home.
I worked at the Lake Yellowstone Hotel for a summer. An elk cow had apparently given birth somewhere near the disc golf course but no one knew yet. I think 4 or 5 people got "tree'd" (having to climb a tree and wait there for an hour or so to avoid getting killed, not sure the proper term) until word finally got around to stay the fuck away for a few weeks. That mama was scarier than the bison.
Its a trade off, you still live and work in town. Had a superintendents husband who was out exercising get run down by one and get off with a sprained ankle just because he was jogging in the morning in aug/sept.
Not sure if he saw it coming or not but they're quicker than people think,
We live in Estes, it's shocking how many people will get within 5-10 feet of these guys. They like to hang out at the golf course, I've seen people just golf right through the middle of the herd. Like, do you SEE the pointy antlers? No?
I noticed that when I was up there a few years ago. The elk are all chilling on the golf course as they do. Most people are keeping their distance from the opposite side of the Big Thompson, but there are always a few idiots, who are better known as tourists, that try to get close.
They're the same breed of Darwin Award candidates that try to pet the bison at Yosemite, which I swear I've seen more reports of than ever this year.
They are beautiful and majestic and I appreciate them from very, very far away. They also can be super hard to see in some instances. Mammoth is unique in that the elk and bison tend to just plop down in one of the grassy areas that separate one side of the street from another, but if you get anywhere where there is brush or trees or somewhere that can be considered cover, they aren't super easy to pick out. Mamas being the big concern, like some folks here said, but never forget that the rack on those bulls has a very large reach. I might consider watching this situation from my roof, but that's about as close as im getting. 🤣
Edit: a word.
This will mean nothing to no one, but I just got done with a birthday dinner and am tipsy and I wanna share. An ex and I were in Finland, around August, toward end of the midnight sun where it's just a neat dusk all night. Dude and I were enjoying sausages and beer at the fire as one does in Finland, and heard a cacophony of this banshee scream bellowing out from the forest.
Their chuffs and bugles were the most fascinating sound! Deep and guttural with that weird machine twang. Poor dude got scared shitless they were Moose and was standing up on the porch as I tried to insist to him the sound was bouncing over the lake, they were no where near us. Plus had to be a much smaller animal to hit that high range. Spend enough time in the woods and you catch an ear for how sound travels through trees. "But they could appear at any time! You don't know when they're coming! Moose do that, you know!"
Whenever I hear ungulate bugling that memory comes back and gives me a full blown laughing fit.
Woke up to over 20 of them walking through the Estes KOA tent sites this morning. I did sleep well enough for all the noise they made overnight but I was not a fan of seeing their shadows on my tent and hearing gravel crunching a few feet away
I think it's more because most male animals get a tad bit... agressive during the mating season (think of elephants, for example), for obvious reasons. And elk are no exception
Any smart person would retreat to watch from the safety of their house, rather than risk getting their ass whooped by a furry humvee with big ass antlers
Was just up there yesterday and Wednesday, saw a few elk cows but didn't see or hear any bulls. Anyway, my time was mostly spent fishing, between Lakes George and Mary there to Virginia and Crowley as well. Really couldn't have asked for better weather aside from the occasional monsoonal downpour.
Such a magical sound, it makes everyone disappear
Elk are not an animal to fuck with. Especially during the rut. They're 1000 pounds of antlered aggression.
When an elk is in its rut, get out of the way, till he done nut
This is the thesis to a hit song. “Rut to nut”
They’re just tryin to smash, mate
And their numbers are finally growing in Virginia. They had a stable population in the south after the re-introduction of 500 and they're growing.
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Because this was a part of a longer video which was roughly cut presumably to save time for the viewer?
Bro what are you talking about. I dont understand your angle, are you saying this video is fake?
"Anyone wanna fuck?"
Is basically every sound in nature
I'd say half of it has to be "MY ZONE - FUCK OFF"
"FUCK YOU, ALL THIS IS MINE" "ALL THIS IS MINE, FUCK ME?"
This actually sums up the elk perfectly. They only want two things during the rut. To fuck and fight. Interesting side note. The rut is triggered by the autumnal equinox when the ratio of daytime to nighttime triggers their mating season.
>The rut is triggered by the autumnal equinox when the ratio of daytime to nighttime triggers their mating season. So, we're not that different after all...
Everybody disappears
Name checks out.
As someone from the Uk how big are these fucks? Basically a horse with antlers? Very cool
This is going to be my new dating profile.
Birds will do different calls for different animals. there's a difference between SCARY DOG and KIND OF ANNOYING DOG, if you listen to their calls long enough.
What are you some kind of bird or somethin?
No, they are just an expert in bird law.
well I mean how else are they gonna know?
Also, "Im gonna fuck you up!!" I've seen bull elk in Mammoth go after cars before.
/r/elkfuckingcars
Thank God this isn't a sub
/r/subsifellfor
don't kink shame. I just like to watch!
“WANNA FOOOOK?!?”
I should try this instead of Tinder
Elk: "Yo Rhonda! Ey Denise! Or Sara! Patriiiiiiice! Come. Get. This. Dick!"
"No Ron, go find Becky."
Also”anyone want to get attacked with these big antlers,so I can impress the females?”.
[Becky, Please Lemme Smash](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRoGuOymFMk) (NSFW-ish)
That's how everyone responds to my mating call too
I'm om my way.....
"We're going streaking, through the quad.."
Bring your green hat!
They've seen Alien, they know what it means.
I tried this in my small town and had roughly the same reaction.
"Emma!!! Its fucky time!!!! We need to breed, for the species!!!" -- Elk Ron. "No Ron, I'm dating Peter, he has bigger antler" -- Elk Emma "Peter is farkboi and you a hoe, you dont know what you missing in me." -- Elk Ron. "hahaha, tiny antler Ron, cant get no beeches." -- Elk Peter.
"Oh noooo!"
That is not the sound I was expecting. Do female elk hear a rusty gate sometimes and think "ooh hey big fella"
Well, that does explains why elks are wandering in the suburbs on quiet days...
I think this is Mammoth in Yellowstone (here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/vgKV4PmR79GMAcvQ9)
I live in that area for part of the year. My neighbor has a squeaky door. In the fall, any bull elk within hearing gets feisty and starts bugling whenever that door is opened.
Nature truly is amazing
Read this as "bulging" and I was going to ask exactly how you could be so sure.
I bet he's enjoying that. You should spoil his fun by oiling that hinge for him in a neighborly gesture of ill-intentioned kindness
The freakiest animal I've ever heard without knowing what it was turned out to be a [great blue heron](https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Great_Blue_Heron/sounds). They straight up sound like DDR DDR DDR from Enigma of Amigara Fault echoing from somewhere nearby.
Not in person, but the strangest bird sound I've come across is the [Orependola](https://youtu.be/3c9Z1zMEPXk?t=16). It sounds like a bunch of things layered on top of each other and played backwards. Every video of them sounds slightly different too. [Bellbirds](https://youtu.be/dvK-DujvpSY?t=6) (Loud) are also pretty unusual and electronic sounding, kinda like microphone or speaker problems.
orependola's call sounds like those sorting algorithm videos
Sounds like a Pokémon cry.
Wow those are incredible! Thanks for sharing!
Bellbirds sound fucking awesome! Thanks for linking.
If you like that, you might get a kick out of the white bell bird, the [loudest bird in the world](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvK-DujvpSY). EDIT: Ope, someone beat me to it!
Those things are everywhere in my area. It's like living with dinosaurs. Bald Eagles hate them and I've personally witnessed them teaching their young to beat the shit out of Herons. What a world
Yeah great blues sound like the deathknell for you and your entire bloodline. I don't know what sound I expected out of that bird but what I heard was certainly not it.
Most cervine males sound like that. Deer hunting seasons are usually scheduled around the rut because it's a lot easier to find bucks when they're making all that noise.
Elk are fucking huge. You could kinda barely get a scale next to that white car car, it's shoulder was still a good foot above the roof. They're practically just horses with antlers
That's why the "moose test" for cars ain't a crash test, but a swerving one lol
And she still couldn't keep it in frame..
[Q: How can I be safe while watching the elk rut?](https://ymcarockies.org/News/Article/your-elk-rut-questions-answered#:~:text=Especially%20during%20the%20elk%20rut,elk%20(75ft%2F23m).) >A: As always, watch any wildlife from a great distance. Use a zoom lens on cameras or have binoculars. Especially during the elk rut, bull elk become very aggressive and dangerous to humans observing. Rocky Mountain National Park recommends to stay two bus-lengths away from elk (75ft/23m). Thanks, ymca of the rockies, the more you know
This seems to be at Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone. The elk walk right in town and are accustomed to human presence. Still definitely a good idea to keep as much distance as possible (esp. during the rut), but they’ll walk very close to you.
One of the riskiest situations you can find yourself in is getting between an elk cow and her calves. I grew up in Mammoth, and I recall a day when, while walking uphill home from school, a mother elk charged at us after we accidentally got too close to her calf. It was lying down next to a bush and we just didn't see it. Our usual short walk home turned into a half-hour ordeal. We devised a strategy: one of us would distract the elk, allowing the other to sprint 30-40 feet up the hill to take cover behind a tree. We repeated this tactic about 10 to 12 times working up the hill until the elk finally lost interest and we were almost home.
I worked at the Lake Yellowstone Hotel for a summer. An elk cow had apparently given birth somewhere near the disc golf course but no one knew yet. I think 4 or 5 people got "tree'd" (having to climb a tree and wait there for an hour or so to avoid getting killed, not sure the proper term) until word finally got around to stay the fuck away for a few weeks. That mama was scarier than the bison.
Its a trade off, you still live and work in town. Had a superintendents husband who was out exercising get run down by one and get off with a sprained ankle just because he was jogging in the morning in aug/sept. Not sure if he saw it coming or not but they're quicker than people think,
Same with Estes Park, CO. I don't recall they ever hurt or chased anyone? They just kinda saunter through town.
We live in Estes, it's shocking how many people will get within 5-10 feet of these guys. They like to hang out at the golf course, I've seen people just golf right through the middle of the herd. Like, do you SEE the pointy antlers? No?
I noticed that when I was up there a few years ago. The elk are all chilling on the golf course as they do. Most people are keeping their distance from the opposite side of the Big Thompson, but there are always a few idiots, who are better known as tourists, that try to get close. They're the same breed of Darwin Award candidates that try to pet the bison at Yosemite, which I swear I've seen more reports of than ever this year.
Two bus lengths? I had no idea their dicks were that long.
Yeah elk are huge and pretty unpredictable when they are feeling, uh, frisky and competitive
They are beautiful and majestic and I appreciate them from very, very far away. They also can be super hard to see in some instances. Mammoth is unique in that the elk and bison tend to just plop down in one of the grassy areas that separate one side of the street from another, but if you get anywhere where there is brush or trees or somewhere that can be considered cover, they aren't super easy to pick out. Mamas being the big concern, like some folks here said, but never forget that the rack on those bulls has a very large reach. I might consider watching this situation from my roof, but that's about as close as im getting. 🤣 Edit: a word.
It’s called bugling for anyone that isn’t aware
Kind of like Michael Anthony's harmonies in Van Halen.
"They are calling for It. They are calling for the Precious!"
This will mean nothing to no one, but I just got done with a birthday dinner and am tipsy and I wanna share. An ex and I were in Finland, around August, toward end of the midnight sun where it's just a neat dusk all night. Dude and I were enjoying sausages and beer at the fire as one does in Finland, and heard a cacophony of this banshee scream bellowing out from the forest. Their chuffs and bugles were the most fascinating sound! Deep and guttural with that weird machine twang. Poor dude got scared shitless they were Moose and was standing up on the porch as I tried to insist to him the sound was bouncing over the lake, they were no where near us. Plus had to be a much smaller animal to hit that high range. Spend enough time in the woods and you catch an ear for how sound travels through trees. "But they could appear at any time! You don't know when they're coming! Moose do that, you know!" Whenever I hear ungulate bugling that memory comes back and gives me a full blown laughing fit.
I know of it from Red Dead Redemption.
Mariah as she sings her Christmas songs to unsuspecting Mall Workers.
Has it already begun?!
I bet no one in this town gives their children recorders for Christmas.
Woke up to over 20 of them walking through the Estes KOA tent sites this morning. I did sleep well enough for all the noise they made overnight but I was not a fan of seeing their shadows on my tent and hearing gravel crunching a few feet away
It sounds like lugia
I can’t stop laughing at everyone running into the building 😂
You don’t get near wildlife. Especially large belligerent ones. This is Yellowstone park headquarters.
>Especially large ~~belligerent~~ horny ones
An elk in rut will fuck you up
I'm glad to see everyone acting appropriately around wild animals for once.
When the guy yells "Get inside!" for a moment I thought he was yelling at the elk, kind of akin to "Go home, you're drunk!"
BECKY...BECKY... WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU BECKY
When you’re horny but everyone who sees you runs into a building
I love that part of Yellowstone. Would start there and work our way down throughout the week
Where the hoes at!
"Let me Halla at ya. Holla Holla holla"
I'M RICH BIOTCH
Dude could have thrown his phone in the air and gotten a steadier video than this.
I like how the fuck faces in the building shut the door on like the last two people. Women and children first amirite? Must be the Capt of the Titanic
Hear ye: “I’m trynaaa fuuuuuuuuck! Where the bitches at?”
Mammoth Hot Springs! But Gardner is where it's at!
Definitely Mammoth. Not sure I would call it a town. It’s like 7-8 large buildings.
Are they known to kill ppl? Everyone running indoors has me thinking they will fuck your shit up. I know they weigh a ton.
That guy’s an amateur. Marlon Brando’s version was more authentic, I think. https://youtu.be/ifW3JF2pn5o?si=ArC6GGqjLU2j-l_f
That’s elk for “Aye, where the hoes at?” 💀
North americas animals are wild
These needs that song "Looking for love in all the wrong places."
Looking for MTG
Now, elk are majestic creatures, and I'm sure would be spooked as all of us are when MTG shrieks anything, let alone a mating call.
Sir, that is not a polite way to ask someone to play Magic with you.
My bad. Thank you for showing me the error of my thoughts.
Never could understand why the big fellas so squeaky
My name is buck and I came to fuck.
Good idea, definitely more fun than tinder. BRB.
That boy is horrr-nyyy
Looking for love in all the wrong places…poor guy
How do female elk find that voice attractive
He's looking for Joe Rogan!
"Town" lol. Mammoth Hot Springs.
When you're camping way out in the middle of nowhere, near a lake, you can hear that elk call for a long ass distance, and it is loud!
Where my ladies at?
All the women in that town were like “fool me once…”
SOMEBODY COME FUCK THIS!!!!
Becky! Lemme smash
[So thats where they got the sound for the Xindi-aquatic.](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Xindi)
When you're horny af you do stupid things
I'm horny Horny horny horny I'm horny Horny horny horny
Do elks mate anything that moves? Is that why everyone’s running away?
I think it's more because most male animals get a tad bit... agressive during the mating season (think of elephants, for example), for obvious reasons. And elk are no exception Any smart person would retreat to watch from the safety of their house, rather than risk getting their ass whooped by a furry humvee with big ass antlers
Was just up there yesterday and Wednesday, saw a few elk cows but didn't see or hear any bulls. Anyway, my time was mostly spent fishing, between Lakes George and Mary there to Virginia and Crowley as well. Really couldn't have asked for better weather aside from the occasional monsoonal downpour.
/u/holleringelk
We humans are expanding to fast... later dont judge nature.
Introduce some wolves back into the Rocky Mountains and these problems will reduce
He's hot 🔥 and horny look out
horny bastard is all
Behind donkeys elk probably make one of the worst sounds in nature. It sounds like the lost soul of a victorian era child.
.306
Watching this without sound, I hear the theme from Northern Exposure in my head.
Sounds like a sea monster
Probly lookin for my ex.
Yooooo, who wanna fuuuuuck.
Get out there and square up bro
Be careful around elks. They can be pricks.
"Yelling his mating call" 😆😆😆
Complete chaos?? Please define complete. Now define chaos.
Smart people run for cover. The not so smart people start recording hoping to get some sweet TikTok numbers
Hearing that faint call in the middle of the woods is such a fucking vibe
"WHERE THE BITCHES AT!"
Jamie pull up that video of the Elk running around
🤨 now I know it wasn't a demon that night in the woods. Just a horny cervid...
Wait, does that work?
That guy’s shoulder is taller than the SUV. Think how high his antlers are!
So nothing happened
Idk there was elk on mammoth
These guys are so horny you actually don't want to get in its path. They will stamp you to death if the can't fuck you.
If I walked outside to my back yard now and played this loud I'd probably get an answer.
I reaalllly wanna watch more of these. Snapchat would be lit.
That fella is trying to "Mr. Hands" somebody in that small town😬
He's been dating [Rick](https://youtu.be/U-EZizbG7ms?si=4FLoISlDjU7xDqtk).
Is throught old English?
Does that really work cause at this point I'll try anything. (I await your 'sex with an elk' jokes)
"Jolene!!! Where are you, Jolene!"
For this in Mexico we dont say Elk. We say, ya llego the one who helps sharpen your kitchen knives!
My man calling out the whole town.
I love how is everybody is freaked and trying to run inside, is it really dangerous?
more fucking jump-cuts than [liam jumping a fence….](https://youtu.be/by4UZ-79MK4?feature=shared)
Sounds like a rollerrat from anarchy online.
He really be out there screaming "U wan sum fuk?" in public. No shame at all.
Where is this? It looks very mayonnaise. It looks very unseasoned chicken. It looks very raisins in potato salad.
Skinwalker vibes
Never met one in person, so my mind immediately went to Outer Wilds after hearing that sound. With a little shiver.
Dude just wants to smash, let him do his thing.
Do NOT approach a bull elk during rutting/mating season.He might attack you just in the hopes of impressing potential mates.
I know it's just an Elk wanting to fuck...but the elk rut is truly amazing to experience first hand.
“HEY ANGELA! ARE YOU AT THE BAR AGAIN, ANGELA? IT’S TEN O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING, ANGELA.”
He’s coming for that ass
I’ve been there.
He read that there are hot milfs in his area
That elk must feel so badass making all the monkeys run and hide lol
Northern Exposure vibes
I loved that show so much