HOOTS
Operations Manager/Program Director
Hoots can be heard from 10am-2pm CT weekdays on Frog Country!
www.myspace.com/krhoots

The Goods

Name Stands for: High Order of Owl Tailgating Society (E-Mail Me for details on membership fees.)
Birthday - August 19 (Every Year)
Favorite Sports Teams - Detroit Red Wings & Pistons, Miami Dolphins, Cincinnati Reds, University of Michigan, Kiwanis Little League baseball.
Pet Peeves Greedy people...Crabby people...Whiny people...Pushy people...impatient people...People who refuse to use their directional signals...People who choose between the "fat" Elvis and the "young" Elvis. It's all Elvis, baby!...People who are always late...People who toss cigarette butts out the window of their car. How about using the ashtray???...People in general, I guess.

"Pant-Hoots"
(The following had my name in it and includes chimpanzees. That was good enough for me...)

Pant-Hoots The pant-hoot is a loud call; observers routinely hear chimpanzees pant-hooting over a mile away in dense forest. High-ranking adult males pant-hoot most frequently. Females sometimes produce pant-hoots on their own and often join in a chorus of pant-hoots when others are calling. Chimpanzees pant-hoot in a variety of circumstances, such as arriving at fruit trees, responding to distant pant-hoots, when joining other community members, and when traveling.

Pant-hoots typically consist of a series of four elements (introduction, build-up, climax, and let-down). Pant-hoots vary considerably and don't always include all four elements. Pant-hoots are individually distinctive. People can learn to distinguish chimpanzees by their pant-hoots, and chimpanzees undoubtedly do so.

Pant-hoot styles also vary among different populations. Chimpanzees respond dramatically to pant-hoots from foreign males, especially when the listeners have at least three adult males in their party.