Fun fact: Cows have regional accents.
So do crows, btw.
For example, a crow from the south might say “yee-caw” instead of “caw-caw”
Can confirm.
And wear tiny cowboy hats.
möö
Shazooooooo
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Wüf!
Le Barque!!
It’s actually ‘ouaf’
Børk
So that’s funny, but you know what I seriously find to be very strange? How different the onomatopoeias for a dog’s bark (well, any common animals sound) are in different languages. Here are the ones I know from experience, done kinda phonetically in English: American English: woof woof Brazilian Portuguese: ow ow (au au) Farsi: hop hop
Don’t forget Ruff Ruff
Right! I was just doing it out of memory, but there’s many other weird ones. I was looking this up many years ago after an Iranian friend told me it’s hop hop there. I remember that for dog, rooster, and I think maybe also pigs and cows, there was wide variation across the world. But for cats, meow was really consistent across most languages. I might be wrong, it’s been a while.
Yes, because they communicate with natural behavior (I’m blanking on the word here. It’s behavior they were simply born with)
Language is learned, but you can still “understand” another human if they are angry, crying, or laughing, no matter where they are from.
body language
“instinct”?
Innate behavior
A lot of dog social skills and communication is learnt, rather than preprogrammed. I wouldn’t dismiss the possibility of regional dialects immediately. There would be a lot of commonality, but plenty of room for mismatches remain.
The answer is yes btw (except for trained commands)
I assume this is because their communication is based on posture, look and pheromones?
I was wondering if ducks would understand each other, with them having confirmed to have accents based on region
