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Cows need some form of verbal communication if and when body language is not enough to get their point across, or if they have to communicate over a long distance. Their sense of language isn't adapted as ours is, and their tongue is not shaped the way a human's tongue is. The shape of their tongue and vocal chords prevents them from doing much more than make the sound they make. And cows don't actually say "moo". It is just that our own language is limited, and that is the best approximation that people can come up with.
A cow's moo can vary in pitch and frequency much like a human's voice would when talking. However these variances are much more subtle than what we can catch when someone is talking to us. A cow will call if she's panicking and looking for her calf or alerting the herd to a certain threat, or give a sound to sooth her calf if it is nervous about something. Cows will also call if or when they're hungry, when they're looking for a mate, or even trying to locate the rest of the herd. Bulls will "moo" when trying to impress females, challenge another bull, or even utter a threat to someone who he thinks is another bull trying to get his prized herd away from him. The reasons for cows "mooing" is endless; you just need to study a cow herd long enough to know what certain calls are used for and why.
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 12y agoCows Moo when they are unhappy. You will notice on a farm, when they eat, there is no moos, whenever they are happy no, mooing. But hit one with a rubber hose, as is done to get one to move in the direction you want it to go. And you will hear a moo. etc.
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∙ 12y agoDogs make sounds to communicate to each other to through unknown language know to man. They also may bark to tell us they want something. When dogs were wild, they barked mostly to communicate with each other as a pack, wild dogs still do.
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∙ 14y agoCows use various sounds to communicate their conditions or instinctive responses, to other cows and other animals. For example, mooing can alert other cows to distress or danger, to warn away cows or other animals, or to announce the cow's mating status.
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∙ 12y agoIt does not actually say moo. This is more of a onomatopoetic way of distinguishing what sounds cows make. Unfortunately, it is a highly popular term, and quite a wrong term, because cattle don't actually say "moo." They make more like a "Murrr" sound than anything. Please see related question below.
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∙ 10y agoThere does not seem to be any reason why a dog would go moo. If an individual does start thinking that a dog goes moo, then they require medical help, or assistance in abstaining from illicit substances.
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∙ 15y agothey do not know how to bark I have a joke about cows... [knock, knock #who's there? [cow goes #cow goes who [cows don't go who they go mooo lol
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they have a certain sound that god gave them which is a moo
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∙ 14y agoCows moo because of there long tongues.
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They are trying to say P OO
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