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Who does the hynk-hynk?

Albanian pig.

Albanian dogs do "ham-ham".

In Catalonia, dogs bark bap-bap. Chinese say "wang-wang", Greek - "bow-wow", Slovenian - "hov-hov", Ukrainian - "gaff-gaff". In Iceland it's woff, in Indonesia it's gong-gong, and in Italian it's bau-bau.

Interestingly, the less variation in the sound produced by a particular animal, the more readily different languages converge in its interpretation. So, in almost every language, a cow mooes "moo", a cat meows "meow", and a cuckoo cuckoos "coo-coo".

According to scientists from the Center for the Study of Animal Behavior in Cumbria, dogs are even acquiring a local accent. It is most pronounced in Scottish and Liverpool quadrupeds. Liverpool have a slightly higher voice, but the Scots have a "lighter tone".

To collect the necessary data, the Center's specialists turned to the owners and their pets with a request to leave a voice message on the answering machine, and then compared the pitch, tone, volume and length of sounds made by a dog and a person.

As a result, scientists came to the conclusion that dogs imitate the voices of their owners in order to demonstrate their affection: the stronger it is, the more noticeable the similarity in sound.

In addition, dogs tend to copy the behavior of their owners. For example, a terrier living in a family of young people is more likely to be energetic and rebellious. But the same dog that got to the owner-old woman turns into a quiet and passive creature, prone to long periods of sleep.

Author: John Lloyd, John Mitchinson

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When a dog wags its tail, it can mean more than just joy and friendliness. The dog's positive emotions are most evident when the waggle is asymmetrically shifted to the right. But if the movements of the tail shift to the left, this means that she has met something frightening or annoying. Moreover, dogs not only convey their emotions in this way, but also recognize the gestures of other dogs. When showing a video recording of relatives with a left-handed tail wag, the devices detect a rapid heartbeat and signs of anxiety in dogs, and when a wagging to the right is shown, no changes in the behavior of the experimental subjects are observed.

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