How Animals Talk / Cómo los animales hablan
Remember the song Old McDonald Had a Farm (The Spanish version is called El viejo Juancho tenía una granja is on the bottom of this page)?. Well, in Spanish the animals make different sounds. Yes, animals living in Spanish speaking countries also speak Spanish. Even though when hearing a Spanish speaking animal make their given noise the sound is the same in my ear, when it hits a Spanish speaking persons ear, I guess, the sound is different. The person who's eardrums are intercepting the sound interprets the animal talk into their own language.
One really never thinks of an animal speaking a different language until you are confronted with it. Try calling a cat or dog the way you usually call them in Dominican Republic. They will ignore you completely. They are probably laughing at you inside their little animal heads! Remember, the little lip popping, kissy sound one makes to call a dog in one country can (and does) mean attack! in Dominican Republic. A cat will ignore you completely if you call it like you would in English but as soon as you say misu, misu it (may) then pay you attention. I wonder what Doctor Doolittle would do.....
Bee - English = bzzzz
Las abejas hacen en español (the bees say in Spanish) = bzzz
Bird - English = tweet tweet
Los pájaros trinan hacen en español de españa (Spain) = pío pío, Argentina Spanish = pi pi
Cat - English = meow
El Gato ladra hace español = miau
Chick - USA English = peep peep British English=cheep cheep
español = pío pío
Cow - English = moo
Las vacas mugen hacen en español = muuu
Crow - English = caw
español = cruaaac, cruaaac
Dog - English = bow wow, arf, woof, ruff ruff
El perro ladra hace español = guau guau or wow wow
Donkey - English = hee-haw
Costa Rica Spanish = iii-aah, iii-aah
Dove, pigeon - English = coo
La paloma hace en español = cu-curru-cu-cú
Duck - English = quack quack
Los Patos hacen en español de españa (Spain) = cuá cuá, Argentina Spanish=cuac cuac
Frog - English=ribbit
La rana croa; hace en español de españa = cruá-cruá, Argentina Spanish = berp, Peru Spanish = croac, croac
Goat - English = baaah
El chivo hace en español = bee bee
Hen - English = cackle and cluck
español = coc co co coc
Horse - English = neigh or whinny
El caballo relincha; hace ; Colombia Spanish = iiiiou, Paraguay Spanish = ioohoho, Peru Spanish = iiiiii,
Spain Spanish = híiiiiiiiii
Owl - English = hoo
El búho hace en español = uu uu
Pig - English = oink oink
El cerdo hace en español = oink-oink
Rooster - English = cock-a-doodle-doo
El gallo canta; hace; Spain Spanish = kikirikí, Argentina Spanish = ki-kiri-ki
Sheep - English = baaah
Las ovejas balan; hacen, Spain Spanish = bee, Argentina Spanish = meeee
Tiger - English = grrrrrr
El tigre hace en español de españa = grgrgrgr, Venezuela Spanish = gggrrrrrrr
(my little joke - Tiger - Dominican person speaking in English "Hey BABY"! IE: definition of a tigre in Dominican Spanish is a person who is a womanizer)