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rrah - What does it mean?

Definition of 'rrah'

English

Noun

  • A cry uttered by an infant vervet when separated from its mother.
  • * 1983 , William C. Stebbins, The Acoustic Sense of Animals (page 140)
  • Struhsaker has recorded at least five different distress calls by infant vervets related to mother-infant separation. As the distance between mother and infant increases the "rrah " call changes to "eee" or "rrr" with an increase in intensity.
  • * 2011 , Jean Aitchison, The Articulate Mammal: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics (page 25)
  • Even the impressive vervet monkey has only thirty-six distinct vocal sounds in its repertoire. An infant separated from its mother gives the lost rrah cry.
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    rah, riah, rayah