A friend, that won’t be named, was frustrated with the question of what sound a goat made. Being the amazing and knowledgeable person that I am, I figured who better to provide some answers to this mystery?
So I set out provide Nilofer- oops, I mean my friend- some insight with only google at my disposal. I also realized there was context to my friend’s question:
- She was unaware that sheep and lambs were the same animal: so she probably would believe anything I said
- By “sound” she meant the human manufactured sounds attributed to animals as we grow up: so basically, don’t take this too seriously
So after journeying for a long and terrifying 10s through the interweb, I came across my answer: While the noises between sheep and goats are distinguishable by an experienced ear, goats also make a “baaa” sound in addition to a “maaa” sound. Goats also tend to be slightly higher pitched.
All this shouldn’t come as much of a surprise as goats and sheep are closely related species, outside of number of chromosomes, stomachs, horns, etc… See chimeras.
For more goat sounds go here.
Tags: chimera, chromosomes, goat, google, horn, mystery, nilofer, noise, question, sheep, sound, sounds goats make, stomach
many thanks to you
my friend still doesn’t agree
all kids; books say maaaaa
your detail page link isn’t canonical.
Historical revisionism at its finest:
Yes it is. Jean is a liar.
Very funny. I was going to be nice and not point out the 2 incorrectly used apostrophes in this post, but I changed my mind. Why don’t you remove them and call me a liar again?
What misused apostrophes do you speak of?
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I refuse to continue to play this game. I fear it’ll progress to me crying somewhere curled up in the fetal position
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Hi, cool post. I have been wondering about this topic,so thanks for writing.