Excessive criers labeled as having colic are simply those individuals who show the most extreme form of an otherwise normal and universal crying curve.
They were carefully arranged by sixteen "verseurs" and advertised in loud voices by thirty-four counter criers.
I personally am in favour of street criers.
The town employs a whale crier (cf town crier) to walk through the town announcing where whales have been seen.
Criers may march before the procession, yelling to clear the way for it.
Due to low literacy rates, news was at times disseminated by town criers.
The town crier and the local population were crying out for the populace to muster to defend the quality and independence of their own police force.
The differences in survivability between excessive criers and those who cry less may only become apparent in more variable environments, when conditions are sometimes exceptionally poor.
