Bioacoustics of Bos taurus

In words

How the sound has been written down. A rendering is of the sound and not a name for the taxon, which is what a vernacular name is.

• moo onomatopoeia verb enrecord at source

Recordings

146 in audioBlast.

iNat321027764 Domestic Cattle (Bos taurus)

Kevin Dietzel 2025-10-15 iNaturalist listen › record

iNat325582133 Domestic Cattle (Bos taurus)

ianstob123 2025-11-08 iNaturalist listen › record

iNat385446518 Domestic Cattle (Bos taurus)

Franco Correa Irrazabal 2026-07-23 iNaturalist listen › record

Bos taurus - call

65 s

Tembrock, Günter 1996-08-24 TSATSA listen › record

Bos taurus - call

73 s

Tembrock, Günter 1999-09-04 TSATSA listen › record

XC1076877 Taurine Cattle (Bos taurus)

25 s

Ulf Elman 2025-11-17 xeno-canto listen › record

XC1039325 Taurine Cattle (Bos taurus) - sniffing

22 s

Teet Sirotkin 2025-09-14 xeno-canto listen › record

XC992449 Taurine Cattle (Bos taurus) - call

271 s

Olivier SWIFT 2023-04-25 xeno-canto listen › record

XC987237 Taurine Cattle (Bos taurus) - call

30 s

Guilherme Melo 2025-02-09 xeno-canto listen › record

XC1067101 Taurine Cattle (Bos taurus) - song

160 s

Esperanza Poveda 2025-05-21 xeno-canto listen › record

XC1066320 Taurine Cattle (Bos taurus) - mechanical sound

318 s

Esperanza Poveda 2025-05-21 xeno-canto listen › record

XC1067103 Taurine Cattle (Bos taurus) - call

293 s

Esperanza Poveda 2025-05-21 xeno-canto listen › record

134 more in the audioBlast browser.

Browse

Counts are recordings at or below each taxon, so an empty branch shows as empty before you click it. A dash means the join view holds no column for that rank and cannot roll up to it.

References

Publications audioBlast links to this taxon.

• Green, Alexandra; Clark, Cameron; Favaro, Livio; Lomax, Sabrina; Reby, David (2019) Vocal individuality of Holstein-Friesian cattle is maintained across putatively positive and negative farming contexts
  doi:10.1038/s41598-019-54968-4

Sources

The rows audioBlast holds for this taxon, each matched to the same Catalogue of Life node. Where a source classifies it differently, its own classification is kept.

Source	Its name	Its rank	Its family	Record
xeno-canto	Bos taurus	Species	—	xeno-canto/Bos taurus
TSATSA	Bos taurus	Species	—	TSA/Bos taurus
iNaturalist	Bos taurus	Species	Bovidae	iNaturalist/74113
BAbio.acousti.ca	Bos taurus	Species	Bovidae	bio.acousti.ca/7804

Machine-readable

Bioschemas is in the head of this page. The Darwin Core RDF lives at the API address below, which negotiates JSON-LD and Turtle.

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    }
  ],
  "@type": "Taxon",
  "@id": "https://browse.acousti.cloud/taxon/bos-taurus/",
  "name": "Bos taurus",
  "taxonRank": "species",
  "url": "https://browse.acousti.cloud/taxon/bos-taurus/",
  "sameAs": "https://api.audioblast.org/taxon/CoL/MLQ5",
  "parentTaxon": {
    "@type": "Taxon",
    "name": "Bos",
    "taxonRank": "genus",
    "url": "https://browse.acousti.cloud/taxon/bos/"
  }
}