I've got a great distress call....a six month old baby. By the time August rolls around her vocals will be even louder. We can just wait for her to get hungry and not feed her for a few minutes.
Yes, you do have a great call! I'm not the only one to record a baby cry and use it to call predators, but FWIW, it works.
Over 50 years ago I decided our first born child, a girl, cried with an excellent sound to call predators. My wife was horrified, and I didn't get around to recording the baby cry. IME and opinion, the best sound is within the first three days after a baby is born. On about day four, the crying sound changes subtley, and IMO is not quite as good a call sound. The first week or two is still very good and cries from older babies will probably work.
I recorded our second born when he was about three days old, and called in a few coyotes and a grey fox with the sound recorded on a cassette tape and played on a cassette tape player. We did nothing to induce crying, merely recorded a minute or so when we were going to let him cry anyway. My wife was still horrified.
Very few people were calling anything in those days and I was doing well with hand calls so only did a bit of experimenting with the baby cry.
