Cow researchers find meanings behind moos

BBC News ^ | December 16, 2014

[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."

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

They know right away when they are getting scolded. Sometimes they just don’t care.

Sheep are worse.

[jackibutterfly]

WHY?

[SWAMPSNIPER]

[TomGuy]

This is udderly ridiculous!

It is probably a MOOt point, anyway.

We can disagree and still have MOOtual respect.

This thread will MOOve many to tears.

[jackibutterfly]

"Cow researchers find meanings behind moos"

WHY?

[C210N]

The cows were studied at a farm in Radcliffe-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire.

Were they properly cowpensated?

[jughandle]

Awesome! If Gary Larson ever made use of audio..

[vpintheak]

Holy crap! I could have told them this as a child growing up on the farm! But then again, I was just a poor uneducated farm boy in American fly-over country right?
Pathetic.

[Hatteras]

When I was a kid, I had a couple of chickens named Shake and Bake...

[Marie]

Any farmer, who’s been around cows (or goats or sheep) long enough, could tell you this. Hell, if you get to know them well enough, you can hear the individuals yourself.

Science... being paid to confirm common sense since the 1500’s...

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Well played sir!

[bunkerhill7]

Actually Cows are horses.

[LonePalm]

Farmers have know for centuries that different breeds sound different.

Gurneys go: "MOOOooo."
Holsteins go: "MoooOOO."
Jerseys go: "Like yo, Moo!"

"Ceterum censeo 0bama esse delendam."

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[dfwgator]

But what does the Fox say?

[dfwgator]

[LonePalm]

"Film at 11."

"Ceterum censeo 0bama esse delendam."

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[Slings and Arrows]

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[Fightin Whitey]

Was helping out during vaccination & preg testing just last week.

Ain’t any fun for anybody or the cows either but the vet really ought to get brain surgeon wages for that duty.

At least it was 50 above.

[Gefn]

Please don’t tip me?

[Slings and Arrows]

Please don’t tip me?

But what if the cow was a good waitress?