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2006-07-09 14:26:29 · 16 answers · asked by Sewhat 1 in Society & Culture Languages

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When I was learning Spanish, I learned that the sound a rooster makes in Spanish is "quiquiriqui," which sounds more accurate to me than "cocka-doodle-doo," but that's really the only one I know. I'm sure every language has their own words for the sounds that animals make.

2006-07-09 16:57:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

I am assuming you mean the languages of the animals and not our cheap third rate interpretations?
the answer is yes, not only world wide but county to county. Birds,because the are vocals, are much more sensitive, and a poor accent even is enough to hamper their breeding success, the females decide against a male because he sounds "foreign".
Dogs and cat recognize both the sounds, but also smells, and how they are displayed. wild dogs are very specific about where and how they piss on trees and other land marks. Strangers are noted, possibly recognized, rejected, or hunted down and killed.
that is just the dialects. if they cross larger areas the differentiate more, often to the point where the regard each other as different species, although they are capable of breeding genetically, they never will in the wild. Birds are prone to this.

2006-07-09 15:34:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

it doesn't seem they do, though many birds have different dialects and monkeys have different calls when animals of the same species are found in widely separated groups. One thing for sure with dogs and animals though is that they apparently understand the language of the country where the live. Dogs trained in German have to be given their commands in German when owners who speak another language acquire them.

2006-07-09 14:32:45 · answer #3 · answered by quietwalker 5 · 0 0

By what I have read in scientific journals some birds have distinctive "language" of sorts. A variety of monkeys use language to describe danger from nearby preditors. Meercats have a distinctive danger recognition bark which is understood immediately by all foragers to run for the burrows.
I believe there are many different barks, grunts, whistles and others that we have yet to interprit correctly.

2006-07-16 07:21:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Well first of all, animals don't speak. They communicate in other ways, such as body language, the way they present themselves to other animals and sounds which aren't a language. Since they can't speak they have no language.

2006-07-09 14:33:10 · answer #5 · answered by Zebra 2 · 0 0

i have been to 18 international locations on 4 continents. everywhere you bypass its all an same. people for the most area in simple terms want to have a relations and get alongside. language hasn't ever truly been a barrier. it dosent take lengthy to apply pointing and shoulder shrugs to ascertain issues out. oh, no count the position you're. in case you position a cigarette on your mouth and flick your thumb up out of your fist, someone will produce a lighter!

2016-10-14 07:13:42 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

Yes. When I was in Finland, the dogs only spoke Finnish. Plus some guard dogs are trained to respond to German, because so few Americans speak it.

2006-07-09 14:40:38 · answer #7 · answered by Carl J 2 · 0 0

Definitely yes!!!!

are you not? hahhaha, remember, we are the highest form of animals..we can even curse!

however, i may say that yes animals can speak in their own way but i dont know if they do in different languages..maybe il try it to our cat here if she speaks in filipino or english..and maybe il speak to a foreign cat too if she knows filipino language too!!

your question makes me happy today..haha..cheers!

2006-07-16 11:49:14 · answer #8 · answered by neanderthal 1 · 0 0

Well i have always wondered that too but i think so like chiuahuas are from mexico so they probably speak spanish but labs originated in the united states so they probably speak english
WELL I HOPE THAT WAS HELPFULL

2006-07-09 14:33:09 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

No. Animals (except for some of the highest primates, e.g. people and chimps) don't have different cultures, and therefore all can communicate regardless of native local.

2006-07-09 14:36:22 · answer #10 · answered by ES 2 · 0 0

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