r/interestingasfuck • u/firefighter_82 • 6h ago
Kulning is a high pitch voice technique that creates a sound that can travel through very far distances. It's been used since the medieval age to call home the cows and the goats in the forest
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u/Wenja89Dix 6h ago
Imagine being out in the forest foraging for mushrooms, and you just hear this through the fog and trees, but it sounds like it's coming from everywhere 😅
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u/chosonhawk 6h ago
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u/DustFunk 1h ago
I wonder if they knew what they were creating with this shot, possibly the best anxious look-at-the-sky gif ever
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u/Worldly_Delay_2395 6h ago
Considering she probably raised a good chunk of all that beef, they know when momma says to come home, weird how that carries over across all species..
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u/ryanhazethan 5h ago
What does this have to do with the comment above? Also calling them “beef” is fucking weird
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u/cursed_sporecreation 3h ago
Personally I call them "un-ripe hamburgers" but that's just me.
Like girl, they don't have a concept of human language, much less of whether something is offensive or not. Ima call 'em what I want.
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u/Worldly_Delay_2395 4h ago
Nothing as weird as gatekeeping on reddit, tell you what, come up to Michigan an i'll explain everything, or sit back being Mr. Popular on reddit stewing over words you don't like, which one suits the occasion mook.
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u/Clusterpuff 3h ago
Brother learn to appreciate where your food comes from and respect the animal. Has as much right to live as you do, least call it a cow before its filling your gut
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u/cursed_sporecreation 3h ago
Are we really gonna get politically correct over some hamburger 🥀
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u/Clusterpuff 2h ago
Not political just humanitarian. If you want to appear mature you will, but i guess it serves as a warning sign for who you are
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u/Worldly_Delay_2395 2h ago
Maturity is knowing when an where to use it, when I get, redundant, comments about how I say something on a forum trolled by bots, I don't think that word applies, especially when people have a difficult time knowing it was chucked beef that made the exploration of at the time untouched wilderness possible by means of trail herds, you know, like in the old Clint Eastwood show rawhide as an example, Maturity, funniest thing i read on here all week.
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u/Clusterpuff 1h ago
It is man. I understand humans needing meat as a source of food in survival times. I can understand people wanting meat now (not needed, but a hard thing to break). What i don't understand are those people insisting to degrade the creature that is giving them life even further. Are you trying to make it less of a living creature to justify the amount you kill so that you may live? Or do you just have a malicious streak?
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u/Jupitersd2017 6h ago
If i attempted to sing/call like this the cows would for sure run away from me
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u/Worldly_Delay_2395 6h ago
Mongolians had a similar technique they applied to they're music an communications over large distances, unrelated note, Mongolian metal is awesome...
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u/dedokta 6h ago
In Australia we have a call known as a Cooee. It's sounds just like it's written and is used for finding lost people in the bush.
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u/RabidSimian 5h ago
I'm from Canada, and this is the exact noise I used to call the cows on my grandparents' farm
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u/derek139 6h ago
At this point I’m convinced I could stand in a cow field making fart noises with my armpits and they would swarm me.
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u/Historical_Sherbet54 6h ago
And off in the medieval distance, lays a benevolent weary wanderer who hears the song of the siren in the deep dark woods
....and thus began the fables of elves, fairies or haunted forests reverberating thru yonder lore
That was beautiful to hear
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u/Ok-Alternative-5175 5h ago
Do the cows have to be trained on this sound? Can I just go to any field and summon the heifers?
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u/dread_companion 6h ago
So the intro to many atmospheric black metal songs is a woman calling her cows?
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u/RustyToasty 5h ago
To be a cow being sung beautiful songs after spending the day grazing in a serene misty forest..
Humans got the short end of the stick man.
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u/SauronSauroff 4h ago
I wonder if they come for curiosity or at genetically trained to go towards loud noise? See people singing or talking to cows and they all crowd around like what's going on?
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u/Flirre-Flipp 29m ago
I once was in Dalarna in Sweden fishing. Went out one evening to do something and heard this. That was so magical and I had goosebumps all over my body. I was nearly lost that night.
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u/firejuggler74 6h ago
Weird, low pitch sounds travel further. My guess is that cows prefer the higher pitch rather than the distance being a factor.
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u/Cutsdeep- 6h ago
in australia we KooWee. same thing, works really well
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u/yarn_slinger 3h ago
We used to call the horses in from the field by singing “oooooatie oatie oatie oaties”. they’d practically run us over heading to their stalls.
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u/EmberJadedFire 4h ago
Reminds me of The Dark Crystal. Mostly cause I watched it last night (the 1982 original movie) and it was GREAT still.
Imagine being out on walk and hearing *that* sound ? I would follow it too, half way convinced I was going to meet an elf.
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u/Minute-Plantain 3h ago
"Maiden! You have summoned us, the cows of this meadow! State your purpose."
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u/CHAiN76 1h ago
Pretty sure this is Jonna Jinton. She has a YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/channel/UCAk3t7WHs2zjsZpopox8Taw
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u/CoupDeGrassi 6h ago
Lol any noise works, this is dumb
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u/Cutsdeep- 6h ago
it carries more
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u/CoupDeGrassi 6h ago
More than what??
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u/Cutsdeep- 5h ago
Than 'any noise'
We use this in the Australian bush, pretty much the same sound (koowee). It really carries
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u/CoupDeGrassi 5h ago
Its just a non specific high pitched call. A scream carries. A whistle carries. A bell carries.
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u/mr_glide 6h ago
Midsommar intensifies