#45 – Cows can have regional accents, says a professor of phonetics, after studying cattle in Somerset. This and 99 other random factoids were recently compiled by the BBC.
This may not be too surprising for anyone that has raised a dog… after all, our canine companions have to adopt and learn various dialects based on the region and household you live; sometimes even two or more (a Ukrainian friend of mine has a Golden Retriever that is obeys commands in three different languages).
So why wouldn’t other animals have regionalized tongues (or even chirps)?
Via LewRockwell.