The barking of dogs

[neoteric]

Do dogs of the same breed bark differently depending on which language speaking country they live in?

[FredPuli]

Quite likely they do. It has been long established that birds of the same species have different accents and phrasing of their song according to where they are raised. Now, a dog's barking is nothing like as complicated as a songbird's song and there are fewer elements in it which are learned, no doubt, but nonetheless there seems no reason to think that dogs or wolves raised together , in the same families of animals and separated from other groups do not have individual local accents at least Dogs have a wide variety of vocal sounds in their repertoire and communicate by varying pitch, speed and pattern of these; all breeds use the same basic language though ( the non-barking, 'yodelling' basenji possibly not). Foreigners certainly seem to think that their own dogs speak differently. For example the French usually write the bark as 'ouah! ouah!' ;quite unlike the English 'woof! woof !!

[PaulYukochan]

Japanese pigs go : bubba bubba Chinese dogs go : Wong Wong Korean dogs go Mong Mong