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No, Discworld wasn't the first source to use "ook" for monkey sounds.

It's not a source I would have expected at all, but "ook" is used in the 1976 scientific publication Communication Mechanisms and Social Integration in the Black Spider Monkey, Ateles fusciceps robustus, and Related Species:

The ook-ook vocalization, although associated with grappling, is produced with many subvariants and may grade into aggressive growling or be produced in a low intensity variant, which may accompany certain aspects of sexual behavior. At no time was it inferred that ook-ook and squeak vocalizations were entirely sexually motivated or occurred entirely in a sexual context.

It was also used in What a Spot!: A Musical Farce in Three Acts (1975; a far more expected source):

(Lolita, a friendly female ape, comes loping out of underbrush, flings herself up in amiable fashion onto Rob from behind.) [...]

 

LOLITA. (Makes sounds to the effect of:) Ook-ook! Eeek-aak-eek!

No, Discworld wasn't the first source to use "ook" for monkey sounds.

It's not a source I would have expected at all, but "ook" is used in the 1976 scientific publication Communication Mechanisms and Social Integration in the Black Spider Monkey, Ateles fusciceps robustus, and Related Species:

The ook-ook vocalization, although associated with grappling, is produced with many subvariants and may grade into aggressive growling or be produced in a low intensity variant, which may accompany certain aspects of sexual behavior. At no time was it inferred that ook-ook and squeak vocalizations were entirely sexually motivated or occurred entirely in a sexual context.

It was also used in What a Spot!: A Musical Farce in Three Acts (1975; a far more expected source):

(Lolita, a friendly female ape, comes loping out of underbrush, flings herself up in amiable fashion onto Rob from behind.) [...]

 

LOLITA. (Makes sounds to the effect of:) Ook-ook! Eeek-aak-eek!

No, Discworld wasn't the first source to use "ook" for monkey sounds.

It's not a source I would have expected at all, but "ook" is used in the 1976 scientific publication Communication Mechanisms and Social Integration in the Black Spider Monkey, Ateles fusciceps robustus, and Related Species:

The ook-ook vocalization, although associated with grappling, is produced with many subvariants and may grade into aggressive growling or be produced in a low intensity variant, which may accompany certain aspects of sexual behavior. At no time was it inferred that ook-ook and squeak vocalizations were entirely sexually motivated or occurred entirely in a sexual context.

It was also used in What a Spot!: A Musical Farce in Three Acts (1975; a far more expected source):

(Lolita, a friendly female ape, comes loping out of underbrush, flings herself up in amiable fashion onto Rob from behind.) [...]

LOLITA. (Makes sounds to the effect of:) Ook-ook! Eeek-aak-eek!

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No, Discworld wasn't the first source to use "ook" for monkey sounds.

It's not a source I would have expected at all, but "ook" is used in the 1976 scientific publication Communication Mechanisms and Social Integration in the Black Spider Monkey, Ateles fusciceps robustus, and Related Species:

The ook-ook vocalization, although associated with grappling, is produced with many subvariants and may grade into aggressive growling or be produced in a low intensity variant, which may accompany certain aspects of sexual behavior. At no time was it inferred that ook-ook and squeak vocalizations were entirely sexually motivated or occurred entirely in a sexual context.

It was also used in What a Spot!: A Musical Farce in Three Acts (1975; a far more expected source):

(Lolita, a friendly female ape, comes loping out of underbrush, flings herself up in amiable fashion onto Rob from behind.) [...]

LOLITA. (Makes sounds to the effect of:) Ook-ook! Eeek-aak-eek!