(1) There were no paw prints and no fresh scat , nothing at all to indicate that a cougar had cubbed in these hills that summer.(2) Her first album was arranged by a son of Cuba's legendary scat singer and jazz trumpeter Bobby Carcasses.(3) The touchstone sound is hip hop, but Martin has dropped the rap for a jazz scat style which recalls British singer Cleveland Watkiss.(4) He revealed a rougher side, first singing garbled scat vocals into his trumpet, and then using actual words, which was unexpected from an abstract act.(5) She was practically born backstage - her father is the respected Edinburgh scat singer Freddie King; her mother is a stage manager.(6) There's no political favoritism here, so scat , you malicious muckrakers.(7) It's not a completely original approach - many songs have nonsensical lyrics or scat effects - but strong melodies like these deserve thoughtful lyrics.(8) This is done by biologists to make sure they have the right scat from the right animal.(9) While u2018Silent Nightu2019 is executed in typical ho-hum fashion, Owen adds a delicious smattering of scat to a jazzed-up u2018God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen.u2019(10) From his work analyzing hormones and DNA in animal feces, Wasser knew that scat could provide a wealth of information about wildlife populations.(11) Using scat allows sample collection without disturbing the focal animal.(12) There was otter scat on the bank, coyote tracks on the ice, and where the bridge had arched the flow in some lost age, a recently demolished beaver dam.(13) Over several weeks, I collected carnivore scat similar to that I had seen gathered by waxbills and stored it in a freezer.(14) Bear signs are everywhere in Bradwell Bay, from fresh footprints to scat to mauled trees, marked by hears to show territorial boundaries.(15) Discovered in Missouri, Shooby's musical style is imitating a trumpet in a bizarre improvised scat over a variety of music.(16) Other animals are known to use scat for surprising purposes; larval tortoise beetles pile fecal shields on their backs to protect them from predators.