Hi

Actually i think that is a pretty good question,

Peace
Tim

Well, I'm sold on the wood knock, in my research I used the same pattern for over six months. Never got a reply, then I camped in my area and low and behold in the general vicinity of my baiting station at night comes a patterned wood knock just like mine, never did I initiate that sequence that night. Don't need to be told the significance of that.

I've been trying to hunt down who associated woodknocks (and samurai chatter) with sasquatch. So far all I've found is references of people hearing the noises. I've not been able to find out who was the first to report that, or how it was associated with the phenomenon. I don't wood knock, or call blast. I listen, and look instead.

I just started wood knocks late this fall, I just look around for bat sized stick and start whackin trees. If the tree I'm hittin isnt loud enough I move to another.

Sometimes if I either cant find a limb or am bored with hittin trees I will find a couple of rocks and clack them together, both almost always get responses for me.

norcal,
I have read online that woodknocking is something commonly done by higher primates presumably as some type of comunication.

I just started hearing about woodknocks within the last couple of years. I was just thinking about this the other day and started looking through some of my older books and am not finding anything woodknock related.

Maybe this is a newer thing because of the internet and all the bf related websites? I dunno.

I know that when I start thumping on trees something thumps back.

Sammy

Wood Knocking...how do you do it?...well...I just bang my head on something....

At the risk of suffering the slings and arrows of the entire BF community, where did the idea that "wood knocks" are a BF phenomenon come from? Has anyone ever seen a BF beating a stick against a tree?

Just curious , Norcal

I recall reading a report about a year ago of someone witnessing a sasquatch hitting a tree with a stick in an attempt to make a coon fall out. Does anybody remember that report?

edit: Also, is there any particular pattern that should be used? Or does it matter that much?

I recall reading a report about a year ago of someone witnessing a sasquatch hitting a tree with a stick in an attempt to make a coon fall out. Does anybody remember that report?

edit: Also, is there any particular pattern that should be used? Or does it matter that much?

... The ones from far away get pretty exited like they just got a call from their long lost brother.

At least that was our take on it.

Sammy

We all know the expression monkey see, monkey do. But should the saying really go monkey hear, monkey do? Recent studies are finding that the language abilities of some monkeys are more sophisticated than previously believed. Much more sophisticated.

Monkeys live together in social groups. All members contribute by helping to defend food sources, raise young, and watch for predators. But it is impossible to live in a social group without some form of communication. Group members need ways to influence and inform each other. This is what drives language. Monkeys have evolved many ways of communicating, including visual cues, auditory calls, and even some olfactory signals. Some of their visual signals are quite beautiful, like the long, curled tongue of the emperor tamarin, signaling to her mate when she wants to offload her babies. But visual signals only work if they can be seen. In the dense forest and underbrush that most primates live in, auditory cues are a much more powerful tool. Calls and vocalizations can also be modified in pitch, loudness, and duration, which means a vast array of messages can be transmitted. Alarm calls, territorial calls, food calls, personal identification calls, dominance calls — these are the basic messages that primates need to successfully live in groups. But some developed more complex and specialized forms of auditory communication. Some developed language.

No animals have all the aspects of human language, but several species have some. Diana monkeys, seen in Clever Monkeys, are some of the most clever monkeys when it comes to language. They combine calls to make sentence-like messages. This requires grammar. The meaning of the “sentence” depends on what sounds are included and in what order. Added sounds convey more information, like “maybe,” or “not urgent.” Each predator has an assigned call. The eagle call differs from the jaguar call, meaning Diana monkey language includes semantics: signals convey meaning and refer to features in the real world. And what’s more impressive is that the Diana monkeys can understand other species of monkeys. Putty-nosed guenons also combine calls, and their messages can be understood by the Diana monkeys. A remarkable example of multilingual primates is seen in Clever Monkeys, with eight different monkey species living together and listening to each other. With eight times as many eyes on the lookout, it’s much harder for predators to go unnoticed. Each of the eight species has at least 15 distinct calls — that’s 120 different sounds to remember. There aren’t many humans that speak eight different languages.

One of the most interesting aspects of human language is the ability to deceive. Some primates are capable of displacement, or the use of language to refer to things that are not present. Monkeys use both spatial displacement, referring to objects that are not present in that space, and temporal displacement, referring to objects that are not present at that time. The white-faced capuchin in Clever Monkeys that uses displacement to deceive his troop had to think abstractly about invisible objects. And he had to predict how others would respond. It takes impressive intelligence to tell a monkey lie.

It also takes impressive intelligence to live in very large groups of up to 800 individuals like the geladas of Ethiopia. Within the larger band, gelada males are chosen by females, and they live within harems of females. But staying on top of the social order takes a lot of maneuvering. Most importantly, being a dominant gelada requires a high level of social intelligence and an ability to use visual and auditory signals to communicate. Geladas have over thirty distinct vocalizations. These vocalizations can indicate social status, identity, alarm, friendliness, or submission. Grooming strengthens bonds between group members and brings overall stability to the family unit, but geladas spend most of their day shuffling from spot to spot, picking grass with their thumbs and index fingers. With little time to groom, “chatting” has become a substitute way to relieve tension. This is perhaps what our origins resembled, learning language as we moved across the plains.

Report with knocking and raccoon observed --

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