Terms vs Chutter - What's the difference?
terms | chutter |
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 terms and chutter
is that terms is while chutter is an alarm call used by vervets to warn of the presence of a snake.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
