Our first official episode! We kick the podcast series off with a conversation where we try to answer a question that’s had people wondering for years; Do animals have accents? We talk about Cockney ducks, brummy cows and who knew that naked mole rats could sing the national anthem? Not us until we began looking into it, but listen to this episode and you will find out about all of those and more.

You can find us on Instagram and twitter @3_zoologists and if you’d like to see more about what we talk about in this episode feel free to check out some of the stuff below:

- nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/r/red-fox/

- Do Animals Speak in Regional Accents – TheNakedScientists.com

- news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3775799.stm

- Barker, A. J. 2021. Cultural transmission of vocal dialect in the naked mole-rat. Science. 371(6528): 503-507. DOI: 10.1126/science.abc6588.

- Buffenstein, R., 2021. Colony-specific dialects of naked mole-rats. Science. 371(6528): 461-462. DOI: 10.1126/science.abd7962.

- Deecke, V. B. 2010. The structure of stereotyped calls reflects kinship and social affiliation in resident killer whales (Orcinus orca). Naturewissenshaften. 97: 513-518. DOI: 10.1007.s00114-010-0657-z.

- Filatova, O. A. 2012. Call diversity in the North Pacific killer whale populations: implications for dialect evolution and population history. Animal Behaviour. 83(3): 595-603. DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.12.013.

- Luís, A. R. F., 2019. Multi-regional acoustic repertoires of bottlenose dolphins: common themes, geographical variations and ecological factors. Repositório do ISPA.

- Wycherley, J. 2002. Frog calls echo microsatellite phylogeography in the European pool frog (Rana Lessonae). Journal of Zoology. 258(4): 479-484, DOI: 10.1017/S0952836902001632