[QUOTE]Goats can form accents, study finds
Experts had thought only a select group of mammals had the ability to modify vocal sounds to reflect surroundings
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BY BRIAN BROWDIE / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Humans, elephants and dolphins do it, and apparently goats do, too.
The horned ruminants pick up accents as they get older and join social groups, according to researchers at Queen Mary University, London, The Daily Telegraph reported Thursday.
Experts previously thought only a select group of mammals has the ability to modify vocal sounds according to their surroundings, and that other species' "voices" were determined solely by genetics. Whales and bats pick up accents as well.
The researchers recorded the bleats of four groups of pygmy goats at one week old, when kids, as young goats are known, from the same litter remain with one another, and again at five weeks old, when they form social groups with other goats of the same age.
Not surprisingly, the study found genetically related kids produced similar calls. But it found the vocal calls of goats raised in the same social groups also became more similar as the kids grew older.
"This suggests that goat kids modify their calls according to their social surroundings, developing similar ‘accents,’" said Dr. Elodie Briefer, one of the researchers.
Briefer said she and her colleagues don't know whether other mammals may be able to form accents, but suggested that if goats' calls can be affected by their environment maybe all mammals' calls could be too.
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Does this mean I should buy a goat, and put it around Chavs and see what happens?
Best misleading title of 2012
EDIT:
Seeing it from the main page,I mean
That's actually really fucking cool
Put some goats around canadians.
"baah, eh?"
scottish goats sound like they've got rocks in their mouths, i bet
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that was disappointing.
[QUOTE=xxfalconxx;34766016]Put some goats around canadians.
"baah, eh?"[/QUOTE]
But what would the goats say?
Just look at the video of two cats talking to each other below.
[video=youtube;z3U0udLH974]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3U0udLH974[/video]
Do you ever wonder why cats are not eaten in Western civilization? It turns out most mamels have liguistic ability, and we've only slowly begun to realize this and give them rights (such as whales, dolphins and monkeys). In fact, the deeper we search into the field of ethics, the more apparent animal rights are.
Goats are another one of these animals that should be classified as minor sentient automatons.
[QUOTE=Aman VII;34766226][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp0Bt2cbcc8[/media][/QUOTE]
This is the fucking funniest thing I've seen all night.
[quote]as they get older and join social groups[/quote]
goat facebook
As a goat breeder, I can vouch that this is true.
Birds do as well
I would imagine that almost every social animal with the ability to vocalize does
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even ants have chemical 'accents'
[QUOTE=newbz;34766481]Just look at the video of two cats talking to each other below.[/QUOTE]
Too much cuteness in one video
*tear*
Time to put goats around russians and see what happens.
I wanna know what happens when you take a goat from every country, and put them together in one place!
[h2]MAKE IT SO.[/h2]
[QUOTE=ewitwins;34768192]I wanna know what happens when you take a goat from every country, and put them together in one place!
[h2]MAKE IT SO.[/h2][/QUOTE]
you get a bunch of racist goats complaining about their 'jerbs'
They also look funny.
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they have a limited vocabulary though
Whaaat? That video's still crazy, even though I remember it from so long ago.
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Holy fuck my sides
Goats are funny
This is pretty cool.
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Does this mean I should buy a goat, and put it around Chavs and see what happens?[/QUOTE]
"Mo-o-o-on th-e-e-en ya-aa fu-u-u-u-cking cu-u-u-nt!"
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they have a limited vocabulary though[/QUOTE]
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