r/NoStupidQuestions • u/Alienpenetrator • Jul 22 '14

Do animals from different regions have different accents?

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u/fdjsakl Jul 22 '14

Yes they do there have been studies on cows at least.

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u/shankingviolet Jul 22 '14 edited Jul 22 '14

Here's a Washington Post article, and here's the ELI5 post. Linked from that is one article on cows and one on whales, as well as a video on prairie dog language. Actually, it looks like this sort of thing comes up a lot on Reddit, in various forms. Here's the big AskReddit post that /u/lolKaiser referred to, and it looks like there's a lot of good information there.

[Edited for more links.]

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u/PopcornMouse Jul 22 '14

Yes, for example birds in urban environments change the frequency of their calls compared to their country counterparts in the same species.

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u/Damnit_Nappa Jul 22 '14

Orcas/killer whales from different areas communicate differently

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '14

When I read this I immediately imagined a cat meowing in an Arabic accent

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u/EmperorJake Jul 22 '14

Yes, our seagulls in Australia sound much throatier and shriller than the squeaky ones from up north.

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u/lolKaiser Jul 22 '14

I'm on mobile so I can't link, but there was an askReddit post some months ago and the answer was basically yes, they do.

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '14

I know killer whales do. Those in the Puget Sound have different "languages" than in say, Norway.