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Pyot vs Pyow - What's the difference?

pyot | pyow |

As nouns the difference between pyot and pyow

is that pyot is (scotland and northern uk) a magpie; a water ouzel while pyow is an alarm call made by the putty-nosed monkey and others, usually a warning that other animals are lurking nearby.

pyot

English

Alternative forms

* piet * pyet

Noun

(en noun)
  • (Scotland and northern UK) A magpie; a water ouzel.

    • Anagrams

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    pyow

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.

    See also

    * boom * hack