WHAT ANIMALS SAY
■' For. generations .children have been repeating thie old nursery rhyme, "Ba, ba, black sheep,'hare you any wool?'? But gramophone: records of the bleating of a flock of sheep prove that they do not: say. ba-a: The call' of a sheep is more like ma'a than anything else. . ; A dog's bark is supposed to souad something, like bow.rwow, .but' what he; actually says is wow^wow. VOtiie speaks of the growl of the tiger, but a record shows that the sound is cough-like, and resembles , wbuf-wouf, v./-, : ,: Pigeons and. doves, do not coo; -the cry;is simply hoo, with "rather a definite emphasis on th©"h." ■ "■ ■■ • '
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 40, 15 August 1931, Page 18
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105WHAT ANIMALS SAY Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 40, 15 August 1931, Page 18
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