California Giant Salamander vocalization (small adult)
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Common Name: California Giant Salamander
Scientific Name: Dicamptodon ensatus
Date: 2010-02-03
Time: Unknown
Creator: Rice, Jeff; Nafis, Gary
Description: Vocalization of a small adult California Giant Salamander
Notes: The salamander was approximately three inches in length from snout to vent; co-recordist Gary Nafis writes that the salamander was held "with my thumb and two fingers grasping the sides of its body, firmly, but without squeezing so hard I was merely pushing air out of its lungs. The salamander squirmed from side to side and opened its mouth slightly. After about 10 seconds it made the chirping sound that you can hear here. This species is capable of making a fairly loud sound, but this one was very quiet..." (see full description at: http://www.californiaherps.com/)
Location: Sonoma County (Calif.); California
Recording Equipment: Sennheiser MKH30 and MKH40 microphones in a stereo MS pattern to a Sound Devices 722 recorder at a 44.1 kHz/24 bit sampling rate
Duration: 00:00:01
Acknowledgments: http://www.californiaherps.com/
Audio Rights: Audio file copyright 2010, the Western Soundscape Archive at the University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library, Westernsoundscape.org, and Gary Nafis. Use of this audio file is allowed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works
Image Rights: Photographer: John H. Tashjian, http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/photographer_query?where-name_full=John+H.+Tashjian&one=T Provider: CalPhotos, http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/
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