Dogs may bark with a focus

Albanian dogs do "ham-ham". In Catalonia, the dogs bark "bap-bap." The Chinese say, "wang-wang," the Greek - "bow-wow", Slovenia - "Hov-Hov," Ukrainian - "Gath-GAF." In Iceland, a "voff" in Indonesia - "gong gong" and in Italian - "Dioulasso».

Interestingly, the less variation in the sound produced by the animal or otherwise, the more readily converge different languages ​​in its interpretation. Thus, in almost every language of the cow moos "mu", myauchit cat "meow" and cuckoo cuckoo "Cuckoo».

According to scientists from the Centre for the Study of animal behavior in Cumbria, the dogs even become a local accent. Most obviously, he pronounced in the Liverpool Scottish and pets. In liverpultsev voice a little higher, but the Scots' lighter tone ».

To gather the necessary data specialists of the Center appealed to the owners and their pets with a request to leave a voice message on the answering machine, and then compared the height, tone, volume and length of the sounds emitted by a dog and a man.

As a result, scientists have concluded that the dogs imitate the voices of the hosts, in order to demonstrate their affection: the more it is stronger, the greater the similarity in sound.

In addition, dog owners tend to copy the behavior. For example, the terrier, who lives in a family of young people, is likely to be an energetic and rebellious. But the same dog, got to the hostess-old woman turns to a quiet and passive creature, prone to long periods of sleep.

S. Fry, «The Book of General Ignorance»

via factroom.ru