How Animals Talk 



put the proper feeling into your voice. After 

 listening carefully to many callers, I note this 

 characteristic difference: that one man invariably 

 makes the game wary, suspicious, fearful, no 

 matter how finely he calls; while another in the 

 same place, with the same trumpet and apparently 

 with the same call, manages to put something into 

 his voice, something primal, emotional and es- 

 sentially animal, which brings a bull moose hur- 

 riedly to investigate. Thus it happens that the 

 worst caller I ever heard worst in that he had 

 no sense, no cunning, no knowledge of moose 

 habits, and uttered a blatant, monstrous roar 

 unlike anything a sane man ever heard in the 

 heavens above or the earth beneath was still the 

 most successful in getting his game into the open. 

 Three nights in succession I heard him call in a 

 region where moose were over-shy from much 

 hunting, and where my own imitation of "the 

 animal's natural voice brought small response. 

 In that time fourteen bulls answered him, all that 

 were within hearing, I think; and every one of 

 the great brutes threw caution to the dogs and 

 came out on the jump. 



From such observations, and from others which 

 I have not chronicled, I judge that the higher 

 orders of birds and beasts have a few calls which 

 stand for definite things, or mental images of 



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