BS: Fun With Names of Animal Cries

Subject: BS: Fun With Names of Animal Cries
From: Mrrzy
Date: 01 Dec 13 - 06:08 PM

Passed a store called Crows. I thought of crows, the animal. Saw the emblem - it was a rooster. A rooster crows. Aha.

So I started thinking. And I couldn't think of another word for an animal cry that was also the word for a different animal. Homophone and homograph.

Dogs bark, and trees have bark, but a bark is not another animal.

Most other words for animal cries (bleat, chirp, roar) are not also words for anything, really.

Also, if you look up an animal in a French dictionary it tells you the word for that animal's cry. Does that happen in any languages you all know? Not in Englsh or German or Hungarian, I know that much. I also think it's brilliant.

Anyway, can you think of the name of any other animal that is also the name for the cry of another animal?

Subject: RE: BS: Fun With Names of Animal Cries
From: gnu
Date: 01 Dec 13 - 06:21 PM

Not off the top of my head. But, I do know there is a reason so many crows get killed by trucks in NE. We all know crows "stick together" and have "lookouts" when they are feeding. Same goes for roadkill. Thing is, the lookout crows can call out a warning of "caw" but not "truck".

Subject: RE: BS: Fun With Names of Animal Cries
From: Mrrzy
Date: 01 Dec 13 - 06:34 PM

Creep! Ha ha ha!

Subject: RE: BS: Fun With Names of Animal Cries
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Dec 13 - 07:01 PM

You callin' my buddy gnu a creep? Huh? Are ya? Ya wanna step outside?






I'm staying here in the warm, meself.

Subject: RE: BS: Fun With Names of Animal Cries
From: Mrrzy
Date: 01 Dec 13 - 07:43 PM

No animal gnus that I know of. If one did, which would it be?

Subject: RE: BS: Fun With Names of Animal Cries
From: frogprince
Date: 01 Dec 13 - 08:49 PM

If you accept the verb for making the sound (or plural for the sound)...

A cow moos

Subject: RE: BS: Fun With Names of Animal Cries
From: Mrrzy
Date: 01 Dec 13 - 08:52 PM

Right, but a moo isn't an animal although a moose is, so it's close...

moos is pronounced mooz

Cows also low, and bugle, both of which are other things but not other animals, although a beagle is close to a bugle.

Subject: RE: BS: Fun With Names of Animal Cries
From: gnu
Date: 01 Dec 13 - 09:11 PM

I recall one cow mooze. She used to come to me every time I called her. Fed her carrots and petted her and her calves. Used to feed her bull, Ralph, carrots too but he needed to be tempted in with sugar coated carrots at first. Ralph was a cool dude. HUGE bull. 26+ points and about 7 to 9 years old over the years we were friends. Watched him "walk down" poplars 3" under his legs to get to the sweet leaves. He was a bull of a mooze. I was very sad the day I saw him go by after a Hollywood Hunter shot him. I actually cried.

Don't get me wrong. I don't mind hunting. I was a hunter. Ain't nuthin wrong with it it's fer food. Hey, I like to eat. ("I like to eat. You like to eat?" is an old Kent County saying expressed when the wardens show up. Nuff said.)

Wait... this is way thread drift. Sorry.

Maybe I just don't understand the thread?

Subject: RE: BS: Fun With Names of Animal Cries
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Dec 13 - 09:37 PM

Elk bugle but bugles don't elk. Well, they do if the bugler gets his/her tongue caught between her/his teeth and burps while playing. That's also a great way to lose your false teeth while playing reveille.

Subject: RE: BS: Fun With Names of Animal Cries
From: frogprince
Date: 01 Dec 13 - 09:39 PM

Aside from gnu and I messing with you with the "mooze" silliness, there might be more possibilities in the sounds made than in the names for the sounds. Are there any birds that sound like they're saying "ewe", or "cheeta" ?