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Graduate students at Texas A&M finally have their own wildcat.

For decades, A&M graduate students have co-opted an undergraduate wildcat cheer, a class-specific noise and hand motion that follows Aggie yells.

Earlier this month, a new wildcat was unveiled that was Aggie-designed and voted on by graduate students.

The winning wildcat, created by graduate student Travis Kiser, slightly modifies the senior cheer. About 41 percent of voters picked Kiser's proposal.

The wildcat differs in a few distinct ways. For the hand gesture, the thumbs are pressed down against the forefingers "because as grad students we're always aiming high," Kiser explains in the video.

There is also no "A" in the wildcat. Freshman start off with only "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" and the duration of the As decreases each class. Seniors say "A-Whoop!"

Kiser said the wildcat he created seemed like a natural continuation of the other yells.

"It's definitely a progression -- [graduate students have] more years of experience and more years of school," he said.

The new yell fits in with the tenured traditions, Kiser said, which he has observed his entire life.