Chutter vs Hutter - What's the difference?
chutter | hutter |
An alarm call used by vervets to warn of the presence of a snake.
* 1985 , Alison Jolly, The Evolution of Primate Behavior (page 75)
* 1995 , Stanis?aw Puppel, The Biology of Language (page 3)
As nouns the difference between chutter and hutter
is that chutter is an alarm call used by vervets to warn of the presence of a snake while hutter is someone who lives in a hut.As a verb chutter
is to make an alarm call of this kind.chutter
English
Noun
(en noun)- Vervet monkeys have several different sorts of call, including "leopard alarm barks," "eagle rraups'," and "snake ' chutters " (Struhsaker, 1967).
- The vervet's main claim to fame, however, lies in its alarm calls, in which it distinguishes between different types of predator: a chutter warns of the presence of a snake; a rraup is uttered when an eagle is spotted; a chirp is used for lions