Cows have regional accents like humans, language specialists have
suggested.
They decided to examine the issue after dairy farmers noticed their cows
had slightly different moos, depending on which herd they came from.
John Wells, Professor of Phonetics at the University of London, said
regional twangs had been seen before in birds.
The farmers in Somerset who noticed the phenomenon said it may have been
the result of the close bond between them and their animals.
Farmer Lloyd Green, from Glastonbury, said: "I spend a lot of time with my
ones and they definitely moo with a Somerset drawl.
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