Hm, I'm not Elk's member or hunter, nor do we have any elk in my neighborhood, but I do recall a coworker who had an elk call and iirc that's the sound it makes. Curiously, non of the elk in my Skyrim make any sound other than heavy breathing. I'll have to check that one out.
Try fury/frenzy/mayhem on them to make them hostile. Let them attack you. I think that's the only way to make them utter anything. They might even when they die, were they hostile or not, but I'm not sure.
And I'm not sure about the sound file anymore, either. It may be that I've heard that particular one, too, but just haven't payed attention to it. Anyway, it was basically my point in my last post that the deer really do utter like that in real life as well. That screaky sound is how they naturally sound. Nothing odd with that. (Except yeah, it might sound odd if you've never heard it before.) The only thing odd about that deer is that it makes sounds seemingly without reason.
Anyway, the case is closed, methinks.
