Rode and Audrey Hagen of Jackson Hole, Wyo., share a SoundClip with us. It's the sound of an elk bugle, an eerie sound that is a sure sign of autumn, when the animals enter rutting season. A new ...

Things get busy at the Buffalo National River in the fall. Leaves change, fish bite and bull elk sound their symphony of bugling music at sunrise and sunset. It's a mystical experience to be in Boxley ...

Quinn Larsen knew how to talk to elk before she could walk. "When she was a baby I held her in my arms out in the woods and listened to elk," said her father, Eric, of Stevensville. "She started ...

Why does a big elk sound so puny? In this animated video essay, "Sunday Morning" contributor Robert Krulwich and animator Nate Milton go inside one of Nature's mysteries, to examine why an adult male ...

It’s a crisp fall evening in Grand Teton National Park. A mournful, groaning call cuts through the dusky-blue light: a male elk, bugling. The sound ricochets across the grassy meadow. A minute later, ...

All elk hunters dream of a screaming bull that charges across a meadow and into bow range, hot steam still flowing from his nostrils. After all, calling in a bugling bull (or even just getting a ...

Elk sounds vary from grunts, screams and coos to something like an excited chimpanzee – a sound human elk callers refer to as “chuckling.” None of it sounds like something that would emanate from a 12 ...