pyow

plural pyows

1. An alarm call made by the putty-nosed monkey and others, usually a warning that other animals are lurking nearby.

   Analysis of pyows made by a recognizable male over 10 yrs […]

   1993, American Psychological Association, Psychological abstracts

   4 more examples

   Sometimes, however, the adult male rejoined the group after emitting "Pyows" and moved with the others in quite a different direction.

   1977, Smithsonian contributions to zoology

   Interestingly, the blue monkey's boom and pyow calls are both long-distance signals (Brown, 1989), yet the two calls differ […]

   1990, Mark A Berkley, William C Stebbins, Comparative Perception: Basic mechanisms

   For instance, the bark of a spot-nose and pyow of a blue monkey sound very similar (4).

   1991, Richard Estes, The behavior guide to African mammals

   Male putty-nosed monkeys in Nigeria have been observed stringing together calls of pyow and hack.

   2007, National Geographic Society, The National Geographic magazine