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- verb communicate by hooting and panting, as of primates
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Examples
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In the silence that follows, I can just hear the distinctive pant-hoot of our middle chimp, Anton, from upstairs.
Tim Dowling: A writer wronged Tim Dowling 2010
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Using a match-to-sample paradigm, Parr and colleagues have shown that chimpanzees recognize at least five different facial expressions: bared-teeth display, scream, pant-hoot, play face, and relaxed-lip face (Parr et al. 1998).
Animal Cognition Andrews, Kristin 2008
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Ask yourself how you would transcribe this pant-hoot in such a way that someone else could reproduce it by reading it from paper in the most ape-like way.
loveecstasycrime 2008
bilby commented on the word pant-hoot
"You cannot imagine how excited I was to come into contact once again with manatees. The Science Chimp's every hair stood on end, she pant-hooted and hugged herself. You see, I have an enormous soft spot for manatees, ever since having shared their space at the Amazonian Research Institute in Manaus, Brazil as a lonely college student in 1979."
- Julie Zickefoose, 'Manatee Surprise', www.juliezickefoose.com, 10 Dec 2008.
December 13, 2008
bilby commented on the word pant-hoot
I should put a link to her manatee blog posts because they're touching.
Note to frogapplause: it's not a blog about manties.
December 13, 2008
frogapplause commented on the word pant-hoot
Darn.
December 13, 2008
sarra commented on the word pant-hoot
Heh! I knew, in fact. I owned this when I was small. School book fairs were an invaluable thing.
December 13, 2008
bilby commented on the word pant-hoot
Sarra, you've been a language nerd since forever!
Did you ever become fluent in Chimpanzee?
December 13, 2008
mollusque commented on the word pant-hoot
Does Julie have manatee idols?
December 13, 2008
reesetee commented on the word pant-hoot
Bilby, you're a Zickefoose fan? Who knew? :-D
December 15, 2008
sarra commented on the word pant-hoot
No! I never met one! It would certainly have helped.
December 16, 2008