pyow

English

Etymology

Imitative.

Noun

pyow (plural pyows)

  1. An alarm call made by the putty-nosed monkey and others, usually a warning that other animals are lurking nearby.
    • 1977, Smithsonian contributions to zoology
      Sometimes, however, the adult male rejoined the group after emitting "Pyows" and moved with the others in quite a different direction.
    • 1990, Mark A Berkley, William C Stebbins, Comparative Perception: Basic mechanisms
      Interestingly, the blue monkey's boom and pyow calls are both long-distance signals (Brown, 1989), yet the two calls differ […]
    • 1991, Richard Estes, The behavior guide to African mammals
      For instance, the bark of a spot-nose and pyow of a blue monkey sound very similar (4).
    • 1993, American Psychological Association, Psychological abstracts
      Analysis of pyows made by a recognizable male over 10 yrs […]
    • 2007, National Geographic Society, The National Geographic magazine
      Male putty-nosed monkeys in Nigeria have been observed stringing together calls of pyow and hack.

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