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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2: Cows with Accents

Phonetics experts have answered a claim which was started by a group of farmers in London, England. The farmers claimed that cows have a regional accents, as people do, which causes their ‘Moos’ to sound different and unique depending on the area where they were raised. And it turns out, this may be true.

It could be very possible that cows pick up linguistic traits off of the farmer, very much so the same way as children may form an accent from living and playing with other kids from that region. The more time the cows spend with the farmer, the more likely the cows are able to pick up the linguistic patterns. “The same has been found to occur in birds as well” says John Well, a professor of Phonetics at the University of London, to the Associated Press.

However, although there are claims that this is indeed true, this is still nothing more than a theory. More testing will need to be done to find out if human linguistic traits can be picked up by the animals surrounding us.

--Written by Richard Spigner

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