This is a distress moo - the subject is unhappy about not being
able to use Air Force One for a two-day trip to the Bahamas.
Posted on 12/16/2014 9:57:35 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Researchers have recorded and analysed the ways cows communicate with their young, to translate the meanings behind the "moos".
They identified two distinctly different call sounds that cows make to their calves, depending on whether they are nearby or separated.
They also identified a call calves make to their mothers when they want to start suckling milk.
The cows were studied at a farm in Radcliffe-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire.
The team from the University of Nottingham and Queen Mary University of London spent ten months digitally recording the cow sounds, then a year analysing them using computers.
Dr Mónica Padilla de la Torre, who led the project, said: "The research shows for the first time that mother-offspring cattle calls are individualised - each calf and cow have a characteristic and exclusive call of their own.
"Acoustic analysis also reveals that certain information is conveyed within the calf calls - age, but not gender."
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
I was raised on a farm. Already knew it.
Then It behooves us to make hay while the sun shines...............
This is a distress moo - the subject is unhappy about not being
able to use Air Force One for a two-day trip to the Bahamas.
I thought that was an ebonics cow...
Nah, an Angus, I sure.
I’m gonna steer clear of that prospect..................
They Mew on and on, while amoozing themselves.
Their off the hoof humor was so udderly racaus, it put them in the porter house as punishment, to steer their minds rightly.
Their were so many they “Cud’ld” close to keep their prime ribs warm.
And so forth.
So they've got crazy government grants in England too. What's next, £10 million to find out what does the fox say?
Sometimes you just know.
It would be very disrespectful for you Freepers to associate you-know-who with the subject of this thread!
We’re raising a steer for beef next year. His name is, ‘Supper.’ He’s not quite as cute as, ‘Dinner’ who we raised last year. ;)
I totally believe that animals vocalize differently in different situations. All the dogs I’ve had through the years do the same thing, too.
Well, those are British cows. They moo with an accent and munch on the wrong side of the field.
“A moo is just a moo.. a fart is just a fart...the fundament applies as poop goes by”.
“And when two mooh cows moo— they still just say...moo, the world will always welcome T-Bones, as poop goes by”
To the tune “As Time Goes By”.
What sheer idiocy. If they were studying coyotes— would agree there are special calls— hunters know this. Hell for that matter have heard little bambis go “mehhhh, mehhhh” to their momma doe in the wild.
Domesticated cows— bred dumb, and dumber. Meaningless research to. no. end. Since cows waste space and we should all be eating grass ourselves acc. to PETA.
Now that right there is NO fun. Do it enough and you develop cowman’s arm— permanent blood vessel damage on the arm repeatedly so constricted.
Farming is... a business at the business end.
Gary Larson is writing headlines for the BBC?
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