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DIY: How to understand chicken speak - C C - Jan 10, 2024
Sans an accompanying image or video, bet those that have never been around chickens wouldn't intuitively know the meaning of the odd sound they make (especially the roosters) when they encounter something mildly unexpected, puzzling, baffling, or curious to them.
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Do You Speak Chicken?
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/humans-can-speak-chicken
INTRO: A recent study in Royal Society Open Science shows that humans can intuitively pick up on basic chicken emotions—excitement and discontent—by the sound of their clucks alone. Nearly 70 percent of people could match the cluck with the correct emotion regardless of their previous experience with chickens, or lack thereof. This research reminds us of humans’ innate connection to other beings, and our ability to pick up on universal signs of happiness and distress, says coauthor Joerg Henning of Australia’s University of Queensland. “This is a remarkable result and further strengthens evidence that humans have the ability to perceive the emotional context of vocalizations made by different species,” said Henning in a press release.
Chickens can communicate with each other in a myriad of ways. They use body language such as flashing their feathers, but their less expressive faces may lead humans to overlook their complex emotions, says backyard chicken expert Tove Danovich, author of Under the Henfluence, who was not involved in the study. “They are not facially expressive because, of course, they have beaks, which I think is one of the problems that chickens have for their PR campaign for people to take them a little bit more seriously,” she says. “But they are very expressive in other ways.” Primarily, they use their loud, diverse, and unique voices. Chicken owners like Danovich know their chickens’ distinct clucks well, signaling when they’re excited or scared, as well as a special scream-song celebration reserved for egg laying... (MORE - details)
This video addresses fewer sounds than the one embedded below, but has the individual segments marked and vocal narrative throughout: https://youtu.be/zZUSk8Pnl1Q
10 Common Chicken Sounds (there are actually more) ... https://youtu.be/CcxROx97NeA