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 ...

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 ...

Which elk bugles are best? To the uninformed ear, there are few things as terrifying while on a hunt as hearing a bull elk calling. During the rutting season, bull elk produce a gut-wrenching sound to ...

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 ...

EATONVILLE, Wash. — Each year, as the days of summer dwindle and the colors of fall begin to emerge in the Pacific Northwest, an otherworldly sound fills the air. In the foothills of Mount Rainier at ...

Courtesy of Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Hearing an elk bugle in the wild can sound otherworldly: high pitched, but also guttural, sound, sometimes even seeming to have a metallic resonance. These ...

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 ...