It's open source. You can change this to say whatever you want if you're willing to run it yourself, or you can find a place that's changed it to something you think sounds better than "toot".
> Could it be that extinct mastodons grunted or growled instead of tooting?
We can presume Mastodons shared many characteristics with modern day Elephants, which from zoo anecdotes seem capable of grunting, growling, and (both types of) tooting, to communicate different things.
Could it be that extinct mastodons grunted or growled instead of tooting?
I would rather bark, bleat, caw, croak, howl, quack or screech.
Toot? Nah.
Too many associations with musical fruits.