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to pant-hoot

to pant-hoot

1 9.9
Make a loud animal call of short repeated sounds and quick breaths to communicate like chimpanzees
  • verb
  • /pænt-huːt/
  • Specialized
: gritar
  • The researcher noted that when they pant-hooted, they seemed to communicate specific information about their location.

Examples

  • As the sun set, the chimpanzees started to pant-hoot, signaling their presence to others in the area.

  • And when you see chimps in the wild pant hooting, a lot of times those first parts that they'll actually extend that so that they wait for other individuals to join in.

  • Chimps clustered at the knife-edge leading to the pinnacle, pointing and pant-hooting.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • Males often drum regularly while moving through the forest: pant-hooting, they draw near a big buttress tree; then, at full speed, they fly over the buttress, hitting it repeatedly with their hands and feet.

    Academic text (1991)

  • When the leader of the group began to pant-hoot, the other chimpanzees quickly joined in, creating a chorus of excited sounds.

Synonyms

to grunt-hoot
vsto pant-hoot
9.9

Make low grunts and high hoots to communicate among apes

combines hoots with rapid breathy sounds rather than short low throaty ones

Surface Forms

pant-hoot infinitive
pant-hooted past
pant-hooted past participle
pant-hooting present participle
pant-hoots third person singular

Morphology

pant-hoot = pant + hoot (transparent) = pant + hoot

The verb is a straightforward compound of 'pant' + 'hoot', and its meaning is directly inferable as making hooting sounds with panting.

Etymology

Pant-hoot comes from the everyday words pant ('breathe quickly') and hoot ('loud call'). It describes the primate call that mixes rapid panting with hoots, so the word simply names the sound the animals make.