In my house, at that time, there were hundreds of goldfish that our mom had brought home in plastic bags, in one of her streaks of spending and what she called "bouts of personality".
As such, call samples were taken from as near as possible to the start of each calling bout, but had to be tailored to the number and quality of calls recorded.
Unless insufficient calls of adequate quality were available, 10 bark calls were selected from the calling bout of each individual, resulting in a total call sample of 352 bark calls (120 green monkey barks, 120 South African vervet barks and 112 East African vervet barks).
A longtime fan of boxing, he began announcing fights about 10 years ago and eventually worked his way up to calling bouts televised on HBO and on ESPN.
The calling bouts happen only at night and last for about one to two minutes, with the intervals longer at the beginning and gradually becoming shorter.
Furthermore, high numbers of calling bouts were more frequent at moonlight.
To identify differences in element structure, we selected 20 Ex1 bark elements from five calling bouts per male, resulting in a call sample of 100 bark elements per male and a total of 600 bark elements.
With one exception, all leopard chirp and all snake chirp playback stimuli were taken from the calling bouts of different individuals, and in this exception, different calls from the same individual were used to construct two playback sequences.
If you're the sort of person who has opinions on products and gadgetry, you can sign up for the service and either create what's called a "bout" (a direct comparison between two similar products) or pop into one of said bouts to lay down some informed opinions.
Trost called the bout "A Little Rumble With the Rabbi".
