Courts Griner writes “In 2014 while on expedition to Broken Bow Oklahoma, myself and fellow researcher, recorded a very loud rapid beat sound from one or two coves away on the hill side from our position. At first I mistook it from automatic gun fire though I didn’t hear echos following it. A few years later another researcher had asked if I had heard a Bigfoot beat its chest? He explained that it sounded exactly how Gorillas do. It has same sound similar to a wood pecker but as if it was from a 6 foot woodpecker based on the loudness of it. I found that intriguing cause that is what I thought when I heard it. I then listened to several recordings of Gorilla chest beats and put it with the documented footage from that day to compare sounds. I found the comparison very, very similar. We believe we may have recorded a male chest beat from across the cove 3 or 4 times that morning as we filmed.”
What do you think?
Robert P
Interesting
Karen C
Never knew that Gorillas did such a thing, amazing….
rosalyn b
As a birder, I’ve heard this and seen this dozens of times in the woods. It’s a pileated woodpecker drumming on a tree. LOL. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqPPioNKIfo
Jason H
I have also hear and seen it , Rosalyn I believe is right.
Kathy K
That’s what I’m also guessing the noise to be..woodpecker.
troy b
thats what it sounds like to me also
Denise F
I think they recorded a woodpecker, unfortunately.
I have heard the ‘gorilla chest beating’ sound in the SHNF and it had more of a hollow, strange sound to it…. something you recognize as different.
I could very well be wrong tho.
Maynard w
Those calls you hear around 2:40 are pileated woodpeckers also. They are loud because they are crow sized.
Maynard w
Starting at 2:33. Sorry.
Gumshoguy
Don’t believe is chest thumping … sorry.
Richard W
Knew gorillas did chest beat, but not that fast. Quite interesting.
Denise F
You know looking back at it, at the time I heard it (2012) I thought the closest sound was a gorilla beating it’s chest but it could have been a tongue pop of sorts.
They both have a similar type sound (can’t think of the correct words to describe the sound).
DAVID N
Pileated woodpecker. Those suckers are LOUD.
Brian H
Give me a break. That is not chest beating.
Greg O
I agree! Sounds like a woodpecker to me. I do admire that those guys are out there trying. I have seen sasquatch twice and never when I am sitting on the couch!
RICHIE E
COULD HAVE BEEN A WOOD PICKER ??? BECAUSE I HAVE HEARD THIS LOTS OF TIME WHILE HUNTING OR JUST SITTING IN MY TRUCK IN FLORIDA STATE PARKS LISTEN TOO SASQUATCH CHRONIC OR DOGMAN BY VIC N NOO I DON’T BELIEVE EVERY SOUND IT SASQUATCH IN ANY FORM …
Charles R
I have heard many woodpeckers in my life, including the Pileated growing up in the Great Lakes region of Michigan. I suspect the woodpecker was much closer to these guys than they thought. Also that gorilla making same noise may have been dubbed in.
Melissa K
Very cool. I love to observe nature and it is amazing a tiny bird can scare you to death with the sounds they make and how tremendously loud they can be. I have seen and heard woodpeckers often, now I will think twice…hmmm
I had to get rid of my bird feeder because of the unwanted visitors I got, bears, ground hogs, turkeys being too close to my house so I don’t see the birds as often.
Jack G
Bigfoot May beat their chests but that was a pileated woodpecker drumming on a tree and in fact you can hear it call. Sorry, but this is a case of mistaken identity.
Connie C
Wow
Oliver R
The Pileated woodpecker is one of the loudest things you will here in the wild. Sounds like a jackhammer and echos a long way.