Do animals in different parts of the world or even country make noises in different accents?

In fact it is actually true that some animals do have different accents based on region. A study based on cows shown that the same breeds but in different areas would have their own small variations to the bovine language. This same experiment has been conducted on birds as well, local birds such as crows and the like.

The study on cows is found here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5277090.stm

The bird study here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/animals/newsid_3...

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i think they vary in their communication with each other, much like an accent - but they still speak the same language. of course, regarding human-pet relations, the animal will only understand the language of its owner. it the animal has heard 2 languages beings spoken regularly, then it will understand both. my cat was raised by an english speaking mom, until the age of 5, when i married my portuguese speaking husband. 5 years later, she understands both languages. (we moved to brazil, and almost everyone speaks portuguese with her.) another cat, was raised for 1 year, around both eng. & port. He is now 3, and has only heard portuguese. sometimes, i think he doesn't understand english, anymore. as far as these two cats communicating, i think there is a little difficulty; but that could be the difference in age, gender or the fact that (i think) the other cat is mildly retarded. they don't get along well, at all. also, when having encountered the local cats, all they have done is fight with them. i'm pretty sure there was a communication break down. (fffffft - fffffft) = ^.^ = good question!! (purrrrr-rrrrrrrr-rrrrrrrrr)

No.

An accent with human beings is not because of the region, it is because of the sounds used in speaking that particular language. When you grow up speaking one language, you are trained to make certain noises. Another language has different noises. When you learn a second language you try to find noises in your native tongue which match the noises of the new language. That is why a Japanese person would not say "birthday" like "berthday"; they would say "bathday." Japanese does not have a sound for "R." Their closest sound to R is L. That is why it sounds like "flied lice" when they say "fried rice."

Also, animals don't have language. They have words. There is a big difference between language and words. For example, dogs will say things like "stranger" or "help" or "Go" to another dog. But a dog cannot say "Isn't it nice weather we are having today?" to another dog. A Chihuahua's bark sounds different than a Great Dane's bark. It isn't an accent though, it is because of a different shape of their voice box. It is the difference in the sub-species.

I can say difinitively yes.

One of the outcomes of dolphin vocalization research is that there are a similarity in call structure, but differing "accents" to those call structures. For instance, the most common vocalization is termed whistle type 2. pods in australia will produce a whistle type 2 with a different stress than other populations of dolphins. You can actually plot gradients of populations based on this phenomenon.

I don't know if this is true for sheep, but it's definelty true for primates, most cetaceans that have been studied, dogs, cats, but not chickens. This is true for other species of birds but obviously not all. I cannot speak for reptiles other than crocodiles (which also share this phenomenon).

There ARE regional accents. A good cetologist might be able to identify the pod just by hearing the song of one of its whales. The basic "language" is the same but you could tell an Aussie from a Cockney, from a Yank, couldn't you? It's much the same with other animals.

Animals like dogs; who act upon humans verbal command often understand different languages from one another. If you are familiar with the writer, Charles Darwin, he wrote a book called "the origin of species" explaining the different evolutions of some of the same creatures in different parts of the world. Though geese and other travelers remain constant, I think it is fair to say that the local squirrels, on the east and west coasts of the united states speak with a different accent.

The same type of breed makes the same sound. However, different breeds could make different sounds. Here is a good example. I had a little pommerian when I was growing back home in Egypt. My parents are raising her. I also have a chihuahua-mix here in the USA. 2 differents breeds and living in 2 different parts of the world. Yet they both sound the same when they bark. So the answer is no.

Yes! Some research was done on non-migratory birds in the UK and Germany and it was found that the same species had different songs in the two countries. I remember hearing about it on Radio 4, probably about 20 years ago.

I've found a link to a Sky News item on the subject.

Yes, it was in an episode of QI that apparently they have done studies on dogs and found that their barks will vary to mimic the accent of their owner. So a dog with an owner from Newcastle will have a Geordie twang. Strange but true!!

Great question!