The next day she mated again for four hours and twenty-five minutes.” until 4:27 P.M., six hours and ten minutes. And the moment the mating was over, the female insisted on getting back to her pen immediately… The mating lasted from 10:17 A.M. Once the pair mated there was not a sound. Such noise! Such yowls! Such howling! No thousand cats caterwauling on a backyard fence at midnight ever could make such noise. And if there was anyone within a mile of us who did not think that some large animal was being tortured to death, that person must have been deaf. Laberee (1941) recounted the following description of a fisher pair mating: “Soon the love-making began. However, when I researched fisher ecology and behavior, I was unable to find any reference to fishers making any loud screams or screeches except for one old reference from a fur farm. The internet is also rife with postings and stories on the “fisher cat screech” and YouTube videos of purported fisher screams. The stories go that the fisher makes this terrible high-pitched screaming, which sounds like a woman being murdered, either when they are mating or when they are attacking another animal. Here in New England I frequently hear people talk about hearing an eerie screeching in the night, which they attribute to the fisher. Although it is frequently referred to as the “fisher cat,” the fisher ( Martes pennanti) is actually a medium-sized (4-13 lbs) member of the weasel family.
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