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Old September 19, 2011, 09:31 PM
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Question ¿Qué hace el caimán?
El perro ladra.
El gato maúlla.
El elefante barrita.
La vaca muge.
El toro brama.
El león ruge.
La rana croa.
El pato... ¿hace “cua-cua”?
La gallina cacarea.
El búho creo que ulula...
¿Qué hace el caimán? ¿Ruge?
El asno rebuzna...
Y los Homo sapiens sapiens... también, de vez en cuando.

Mi interés en concreto es en el caimán.

(No tengo ni idea de cómo suena “el grito del caimán”... Y Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente, y el De la Cuadra Salcedo no vienen en mi ayuda, así a bote pronto, con lo que cualquier ayuda en esto, será de agradecer...)

Encuentro esto googleando, pero cualquier “input” será bienvenido.
Los cocodrilos despliegan conductas sociales mucho más complejas que la mayoría de los reptiles y a menudo son muy territoriales, especialmente durante la temporada de cría. A diferencia de muchos otros reptiles son animales muy vocales, y pueden emitir un amplio rango de sonidos incluyendo rugidos, bramidos e incluso ronroneos...
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Old September 19, 2011, 09:43 PM
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http://www.diccionariosdigitales.net...20animales.htm

check that out.

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El caimán brama o ruge, methinks.
They produce very low frequency roars and rumbles, and other sounds depending on what they're communicating. http://crocodilian.com/cnhc/croccomm.html
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¿No gruñe?
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In English they hiss in addition to biting. I don't know a good word for hiss in Spanish, and am not sure what dictionary
translation to choose.
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Creo que sisea o silba.
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What a neat site! And what a mish-mash of sorting! Each list identifies each word by language identified in Spanish, but sorted in English!
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What a neat site! And what a mish-mash of sorting! Each list identifies each word by language identified in Spanish, but sorted in English!
I know, weird, uh!
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I found another site that lists the animals (and other things) in Spanish alphabetical order. Look here.
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I found another site that lists the animals (and other things) in Spanish alphabetical order. Look here.
Nice find!
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Muerde y mastica llorando, ¿será por eso que se habla de "lágrimas de cocodrilo"?
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También ♫ se va para Barranquilla ♫, ya que estamos en eso.
@Pino: Aunque el caimán y el cocodrilo son animales distintos, ése parece ser el origen de la expresión, sí.
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Bueno, muchas gracias a todos... por los fantásticos enlaces y las ideas.

Y ya puestos, esto me ha recordado también...

El lagarto está llorando
(Federico García Lorca)
El lagarto está llorando.
La lagarta está llorando.
El lagarto y la lagarta
con delantaritos blancos.
Han perdido sin querer
su anillo de desposados.
¡Ay, su anillito de plomo,
ay, su anillito plomado!
Un cielo grande y sin gente
monta en su globo a los pájaros.
El sol, capitán redondo,
lleva un chaleco de raso.
¡Miradlos qué viejos son!
¡Qué viejos son los lagartos!
¡Ay cómo lloran y lloran.
¡ay! ¡ay!, cómo están llorando!
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El cocodrilo emite un gruñido interno que curiosamente retumba por debajo del agua y es una especie de ataque con gruñido vibratorio. Pero, como ha dicho la mayoría, lo que hace es morder
Lo investigué un día después de haber escuchado una divertida canción italiana
il coccodrillo come fa

A ver si me pongo al día

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Gracias Sosia...
Yo tengo que ponerme al día... a la semana, al mes y al año... (si se me permite hiperbolizar la expresión...)
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