Like other cats, the caracal meows, growls, hisses, spits, and purrs. Other vocal communications include grunts, woofs, snarls, miaows, hisses and growls. Antagonistic or disturbed vocalisations are guttural huffs, coughs, hisses, and piercing screams. They vocalise with clicks, grunts, hisses, alarm chatters, guttural coughs, and screeching. It acts like an animal, and growls and hisses rather than speaks. Vocalisations of the great spotted kiwi include growls, hisses, and bill snapping. Other calls include rasping croaks, when alarmed, and hisses. It also makes various grunts and hisses. It is generally silent, but can make hisses and grunts when agitated or while feeding. Because it lacks a syrinx, it can only utter hisses and grunts. His character now has actual dialogue, mostly speaking through hisses and grunts. During courtship, the otherwise silent bobcat may let out loud screams, hisses, or other sounds. It lacks a syrinx, and its vocalizations are therefore limited to grunts or low hisses. Therefore, the voice is limited to infrequent grunts and hisses. Because they lack a syrinx, their vocal display is limited to grunts and hisses.