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February 16th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
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Tamara Cohen
Last updated at 10:40 AM on 16th February 2012
You could be forgiven for thinking one goat sounds much like another.
But you’d be wrong, claim researchers – because while their vocabulary may be limited, the animals bleat in different accents.
They discovered pygmy goats had a distinct bleat according to the herd they lived in, developing a similar sound to their peers as they grew up.
Och aye… A two-week-old pygmy goat kid jumps and plays on a holding in South Lanarkshire , Scotland. New research shows that they pick up accents others
The researchers, from Queen Mary,
University of London, now believe regional accents among mammals are
much more widespread than previously thought.
They followed four separate herds of baby pygmy goats, recording them with a hidden microphone over several weeks.
At first, the baby goats stayed with
their mothers and siblings and copied their sounds. But as they grew
older and formed social groups with their peers – known as ‘creches’ –
their voices became more uniform.
You can try to teach them to speak properly… A pygmy goat mother with her three-day-old kid. The young pick up new accents when they start to mix with peers
This suggests the noises they make can
change with their social environment rather than being solely
determined by genes, as previously thought.
Dr Elodie Briefer and Dr Alan
McElligott recorded the noises made by the goats – all farm-bred in
Nottinghamshire – at around a week old and again at around five weeks.
They analysed the sounds they made and
discovered each herd had its own ‘accent’. They believe the differences
between herds born further apart would be even greater.
Dr McElligott said: ‘Goats have a very limited vocal repertoire, they only have a couple of types of call.
‘But yet we found these variations, which suggests they may be a lot more intelligent than we thought.
The findings were published in the journal Animal Behaviour.
NOW WATCH THIS VIDEO OF A CUTE PYGMY GOAT KID
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What a stupid pathetic waste of time, who the heck woke up one mourning wondering about the accents of goats. Idiot. I am wondering if I can afford to send my eldest child to a top Uni and those that have been waste their time on research as stupid this.
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Just another example of British researchers in action. Can a cure for cancer be far behind?
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What next? Elocution classes for dogs? WOOF!
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Baaaah, Boyo. Baaaah, Sassenach.
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Tell me: who is paying for these people to ‘research’ this piffle? And what on earth are universities employing them for? Haven’t they got something better to research, like saving lives by finding cures for diseases?
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Well, the thousands of pounds this research cost has been well worth it. The world was puzzling over this for centuries.
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Goats have accents? B-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-h!
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So is this why Madonna is sounding sort of British?
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Mehhhhh!
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