Cows have names and they call each other by those names

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Yo, imma blob: Apr 29, 2007; have you any wool

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/11297269/Cows-communicate-using-individual-sounds-like-human-names.html

quote:

Cows and their calves communicate using calls that are individualised in a similar way to human names, scientists have discovered.
Researchers found it was possible to identify particular cows and calves from the exclusive sounds they made.
The British team spent 10 months studying the ways cows talked to their young.
They identified two distinct maternal calls � low sounds when a mother was close to her calf, and louder, higher pitched calls when they were out of visual contact.
Calves, in return, called out to their mothers when they wanted to start suckling.

But the most important finding was that all three calls were individualised � reserved for a particular cow and calf so that each recognised the other.

One time a vegan tried to one-up me by asking if it was preferable for all meat to be marked with the day it was killed. Now I want each package of meat to be marked with the cow's name too.

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Yo, imma blob: Apr 29, 2007; have you any wool

spud posted:

Ok I'm not contesting this, but how do the cows know what names are taken already? I mean if every cow is called Steve it defeats the point of having names.

Because cows are girls and nobody names their daughter Steve :rolleyes:

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Yo, imma blob: Apr 29, 2007; have you any wool

I'm not convinced cows are advanced enough for nicknames.

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