This a recording of a Grant's galago or bushbaby, making 'slow buzzes' and 'screeches' which is a type of alarm call for this species.  Here they are excited and alarmed (possibly at me) while feeding on insects fleeing an army ant swarm.  I was also getting bitten by these fierce ants whilst trying to capture these cool sounds.  These small nocturnal primates have a range of calls to communicate different messages for the purposes of group cohesion, territoriality danger, confrontation, breeding behavior and close intimate calls. Gear: Marantz 660, with Sennheiser K6/ME66, background sound insects wind and the ocean nearby.

A Perkin - Grant's galago from Ndimba forest SE Tanzania.

Sounds a nigh time hatch of flying termites crawling up the screen mesh of the kitchen window. Hundreds or thousands hatched and were immediately attracted the domestic lights.  The thousands of scritchy scratchy sounds made for an eerie siege like atmosphere of the human occupants of the house.  GOOD HEADPHONES RECOMENDED

APerkin 1011 Flying Termites Crawling Up Window Mesh

The transition from night to dawn, the bats handing over to the birds, in a mature garden in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

AWP1025 Valhalla Dawn Sounds 2 880secs

The submarine sonar like ping ping of a fruit bat, a common nightly sound in our compound in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. I think it is an Epauletted fruit bat, but this needs confirmation. The male has white tufts of hair on their shoulders hence the epaulett, and puff them out in display.

APerkin 1017 Valhalla Compound Fruit Bats 08032017

A recording of a African Golden Oriole in my garden making the typical squeaky bike call with the more melodic signature Oriole song. 
Photo credit to James Legg http://www.tanzaniabirds.net/African_birds/oriole_African_golden/ago.htm#

AWP1020 Vh AGOriole 02042017

Two pairs of white browed robin chats have vocal territorial battles after a refreshing morning shower of rain which seemed to briefly awaken the Valhalla bird life. (Recorded on 8th September 2017 9.18am, with Marantz PMD661 with stereo Primo 172 stereo lavalier mics spaced on a coat hanger)

Andy Perkin Valhalla Songbirds

A recording of an olive tinkerbird in the foreground and a yellow-rumped tinker bird tinkering away to the south background of waves in distance, swishing of the cassurina pines and rain like coconut palms. This was recorded at Anna Resort, E Coast , Zanzibar, 26/102017 16:18.

Tec notes: Marantz PMD661 recorder, 24bit 48Khz, x2 Primo EM172  mics 6in apart partially baffled with some foam in between to achieve some stereo spacing.  Final edit in Audacity, 200Hz High pass plus EQ.

Zanzibar Tinkerbirds Tinkering Away

A yellow rumped tinker bird 'pop, pop....' calling in the coastal thicket close to the beach with a Zanzbar greenbul stridently calling in the beginning.

Tect notes: PMD661 recorder, with EM172 stereo mics

Amani Beach Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird

Early morning bird chorus with a woodpecker providing percussion section.

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1055 Rayles Wood 04052020 AP - 1

Crowned Eagles give this distinctive undulating call as they wheel in the thermals above the forests of Africa.  When they go silent is when they start to hunt for their favourite prey, monkeys.

Crowned eagle, calling above the Mavuji River, Tanzania

In the forests of West and Central Africa you can hear these long boughts of screams that can last for over two minutes, hear is a sample. Impressive and unnerving in equal measure, from an animal the size of a large rabbit.

Western Tree Hyrax Dendrohyrax dorsalis

This is the 'ping pong' call of the Eastern Tree hyrax from the Uluguru Mtns, Tanzania.  Each population of this species call differs widely from mountain top to mountain top and island to island (see www.redlist.org).

Andrew Perkin

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