Did you know that humans can communicate with cattle using “cattle language”. Yes, this is not a myth nor is it a joke. Believe me, there is such a thing as “cattle language”! This is what I learn through my recent trip with my classmates to the Paddy Museum.
Cattle are important animals used during the traditional days of paddy cultivation. Nowadays, we hardly see farmers using buffaloes to work in the fields due to the advent of paddy cultivation machines. Traditionally, The cattle do most of the heavy duty work in the fields. job. So, the farmers needed a way to communicate with their cattles. There are a few simple commands that the farmers used when commanding their cattle to perform certain tasks.
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A buffalo pulling a plow |
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Cattle language information displayed at the Paddy Museum Here is the list of commands that a farmer usually used to command his cattle. |
1. Haih---to command the cattle to walk
2. Chah---to command the cattle to walk to the right
3. Sok---to command the cattle to walk to the left
4. Diam---to command the cattle to stop
5. serot---to command the cattle to move backward
6. Paling Chah---to command the cattle to turn right
7. Paling Sok---to command the cattle to turn left
I don’t really know the difference between’ Chah’ and ‘Sok’ with ‘Paling Chah’ and ‘Paling Sok’ because I find that the commands are almost the same (well, I’m not a farmer after all).
With this language, the farmer’s work was a lot easier because he could communicate with his cattle. I’m sure it was fun to have animals do thing as commanded. If I were the farmer, I would like an expert animal trainer when commanding asking my cattle to do things in a certain manner.
Since we don’t have any cattle, I suggest you use these command on your friends and imagine that they are cattle(yes, I had done this with some of my friends). It is quite simple actually. Just use simple command like ‘Haih’ and ‘Diam’ to your friends and see if they follow the command.If that did not work, maybe you can add few hand gestures and make them move. Enjoy the show of your ‘new cattle’.After you have stopped laughing, make sure you tell them what they were actually doing….yea, following your “cattle language” commands. This will really throw them into a fit. Well, it’s all about having some fun….just give them a “roti canai and teh tarik” treat after that…Haha.
So, now you know.
dear,
nadhir syahir
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