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Ten fantastic sounds from the animal kingdom

A terrier singing along to a trumpet

A Welsh Terrier accompanies a trumpet

Dan Damon's dog, Ceris, "sings" along to a trumpet, wishing the music didn't end

A cat (sort of) counting

Nigel, the counting cat

Eddie Wright and his cat, Nigel, count to twenty-one

Screeching seals

Seals honking and stamping in California

Joshua Thomas sent in this recording of some very silly seals in California

A heavy-breathing moose

A moose heavy breathing in the US mountains

Erik Lenz’s soundscape of a moose’s heavy breathing in the mountains of New Hampshire

Some hungry chimpanzees

Chimpanzee cries in Kenya

Dan Stiles’ soundscape of feeding time at the Sweetwaters Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Kenya

A snoring cat

Apollo the cat's rhythmic snoring

Bruno Manduca's cat has rhythm even as he snoozes

Falkland Islands penguins cackling

Falkland Islands penguins

Ian Strange’s soundscape of penguins on the shores of the Falkland Islands

A crying loon

A loon's cry on Maranacook Lake

Jennifer Stowbridge's soundscape of a loon on a lake in Maine

Some whistling fruit bats

Australian fruit bats

Leigh Cooper's soundscape of Australian fruit bats in a suburban park

Some honking guinea fowls

A honking helmeted guinea-fowl

Dan Stiles' soundscape of a guinea-fowl squawking in his garden in Kenya

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