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A hoot-n-holler (also known as a squawk box system, a holler down, a shout down or a junkyard circuit, and abbreviated as hoot or shout) is a type of telecommunications system where there is a permanent open circuit between two or more parties. [1]
Certain words in the English language represent animal sounds: the noises and vocalizations of particular animals, especially noises used by animals for communication. The words can be used as verbs or interjections in addition to nouns, and many of them are also specifically onomatopoeic.
High-amplitude, pulsed squawks made by a lemur. Squawks, or short wheezes, are brief, "squeaky" sounds; they are also referred to as squeaks. Their waveforms show a sinusoidal pattern with a duration 10 to 100 ms and a frequency between 200 and 800 Hz. Many birds have made sounds which are onomatopoeically described as "squawk".
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Although the term lemur was first intended for slender lorises, it was soon limited to the endemic Malagasy primates, which have been known as collectively "lemurs" ever since. [6] The name lemur is derived from the Latin term lemures, [7] which refers to specters or ghosts that were exorcised during the Lemuria festival of ancient Rome.
The ring-tailed lemur has a complex array of distinct vocalizations used to maintain group cohesion during foraging and alert group members to the presence of a predator. The tables below detail calls documented in the wild and studied at the Duke Lemur Center .
Squawk virtual machine, a Java virtual machine for small devices, written mostly in Java programming language; Hoot-n-holler (also known as a squawk box system), a type of telecommunications system where there is a permanent open circuit between two or more parties
CNBC’s “Squawk Box” welcomed former President Trump for a live telephone chat, in which he had safe harbor to make outrageous and false comments without scrutiny. CNBC invited Trump on its air.