A cow's moo is unique to that individual. They can express emotion in their voice. And it is likely individual cows can identify each other by voice, the researchers behind the study suspect
To most people, herds of farmyard animals all sound the same. Sheep go baa. Pigs go oink. Cows goCredit:Pigs, sheep and goats all have "voices", distinguishing each individual from the herd, scientists have discovered in the past few years.A cow's moo is unique to that individual. They can express emotion in their voice. And it is likely individual cows can identify each other by voice, the researchers behind the study suspect.
“My friends and family think it’s a bit funny,” she says, “but they are really intrigued by the results. Not many people think about this, I guess.” Humans find it difficult to tell individual animal calls apart because they are often a lot less complex than human voices. Alexandra Green with her cows at Mayfarm, west of Camden. Alexandra has discovered that cows have individual voices and personalities.It was only in the past 20 years as scientists developed more rigorous audio analysis techniques able to pick out the subtle changes in an animal’s call – differences in pitch, loudness and vocal roughness – that they realised a lowing herd of animals were actually speaking with a cacophony of individual voices.
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