During courtship and copulation, the male makes clucking sounds very much like those of a chicken, with a set pattern in pitches of the clucking sounds.
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Certain verbal noises, such as clucks, can be used as cues to encourage the horse to move forward, or soothing noises can calm an upset or nervous animal.
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Why is there all thiscluckabout the colour of people's skins?
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The tribunal can listen,cluckwith sympathy and agree with the parents, but it cannot take any action.
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All he did was tocluckat us that there were difficulties in the way, that there were practical difficulties, and that he hoped the voluntary organisations would go on.
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He has several other calls as well, and cancluck, similar to the hen.
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Many social animals produce seemingly haphazard and indistinct sounds (like chickencluck) when they are going about their everyday business (foraging, feeding).
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Many social animals produce seemingly haphazard and indistinctive sounds (like chickencluck) when they are going about their everyday business (foraging, feeding).
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The display is composed of coaxing,cluck-like calls and eye-catching bobbing and twitching motions of the head and neck.
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Hissingcluckheard by females, and wing-clapping by male during nest defence.
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Femalescluckslightly while offering food to their young.
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Before hatching, the hen can hear the chicks peeping inside the eggs, and will gentlycluckto stimulate them to break out of their shells.
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To signal friendly or submissive behavior, alpacascluck, or click a sound possibly generated by suction on the soft palate, or possibly in the nasal cavity.
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We see this readily, for example, in his casual attribution of joy to the rhythmically clucking hen.
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In fact, even a duckling raised by a farmyard hen goes" quack", rather than"cluck", maybe occasioning some degree of confusion in the hen house!
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