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Charlie’s mouth opens and closes over and over as if he is yelping or gasping for breath.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 12, 2021

If a toucan is yelping in the neighbourhood, it drops its own note and imitates the huge-beaked bird.

From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by Kingston, William Henry Giles

It's middling strange," shouted Kinvig, "that the ghost should potter about only when the Government cutter happens to be out of the way, and Tommy-Bill-beg is yelping and screeching at the 'Jolly Herrings.'

From She's All the World to Me by Caine, Hall, Sir