2 Mar 2025

Cow Communication: more than a moo

From Sunday Morning, 11:35 am on 2 March 2025

Do cows have a language? Leonie Cornips is a sociolinguist at the Meertens Institute in Amsterdam in the Netherlands and has spent six years immersed in the lives of cows. She tells Jim about their complex method of communication and when it comes to understanding cows, patience is a virtue. 

Dairy cows in a milking facility in New Zealand.

Photo: 123rf