Originally published at: What does the stingray say? | Boing Boing
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Sire we hear a cliking sound, but what are they saying?
“AAAAAGH! I’m stuck in the body of a sting ray! Why have the gods punished me so? Why? WHHHYYYYYYYYYYY???”
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I recently watched Moana for the first time, so now I think that a stingray sounds like the grandmother from that movie.
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In Germany, where dogs bark “vow vow”
No. “Wau, wau!” And Wauwau is a synonym for (small-ish) dogs in general.
and both the frog and the duck say “quack,”
Eh, close enough. Frogs go “quaaak”, ducks go “quack-quack-quack”. The technical term is “schnattern”.
the rooster greets the dawn with a hearty “kik-a-ricki.”
“Kikeriki!”
Seriously, David Sedaris just can’t seem to cope since Harry Rowohlt died.
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What does a stingray say? “Sorry about that Steve.”
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Manta rays don’t have stingers.
But the movie really reinforced what good singers crabs are, which we already knew.
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In Finnish kukkokiekuu (literally “rooster crows” [crow as to make the sound of a rooster), dog goes hau, vuh or something, cat goes miau, cow goes ammuu or muu, cuckoo says kukkuu.
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Seems less like communication and more like echolocation.
But, you know, whatever gets you the most… CLICKS
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I do a mean rooster imitation, but trying to write it out would never work; it would just be a string of vowels.
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I find this site very handy when I have troube understanding foriegn animals… Derek Abbott's Animal Noise Page
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