Just a little side comment. About 25 years ago, while deer hunting with my dad, I saw an owl flying through the woods early one morning. It was just getting light and it was still very quiet. I watched the owl fly from my left to my right, disappearing in the thick trees about a hundred yards away. Suddenly, I heard the most horrendous and horrific "screaming". This went on for about 30 or 45 seconds until all fell quiet again. A few moments later I saw the owl flying back across the woods, holding a rabbit in his talons. I'll never forget the sound of that "screaming". Very unsettling.
We live on the edge of some hills here in AZ and have heard it numerous times when coyotes also can be heard to be about. Unsettling describes it quite well. Have heard several cats get it, too. Not a pretty sound.
“Suddenly, I heard the most horrendous and horrific “screaming”. This went on for about 30 or 45 seconds until all fell quiet again.”
I heard similar noises near my in-laws house after my then-young daughter and her cousin came running into the house to report the disturbance. A snake was coiled around a young rabbit and was constricting it to kill it. It was an amazing bit of nature up-close but those little girls did not appreciate the nature show.
Rabbits definitely scream.
My buddy was walking his Dalmatian in a new subdivision under construction, which stirred up a lot of jack rabbits. The Dalmatian caught a jack rabbit and her bite tore the skin clean off the back of the jack rabbit. What an eerie, piercing scream.
Rabbits and bobcats and reckons make some really really weird noises. I was sitting on our deck one night and all,of a sudden, there were these really weird sounds. It sounded like 7 different animals... monkey, pig, bear (like when they huff at sometning), cats fighting, a couger growling, heard some hissing sounds, and then the weirdest, a sound like the ‘Bigfoot hunters’ do when they howl for non existent biggest lol
If I had been walk home through the woods at night, after hunting, and didn’t know what It was making the noises, and those sounds broke out a few Hundred feet away, wow!
I looked up ‘racoons fighting’ on YouTube, and yep, those were the sounds I heard.
Bobcats fighting make a horrendous sound too
I stepped on a rabbit once when I was about 5-6, walking through a field. It screamed bloody murder.
My neighbor’s brother set up in the backyard one night to shoot coyotes. He was using an electronic caller playing the wounded rabbit sound.
That is the freakiest noise I’ve ever heard.