History Main / AnimalSpeciesAccent

* Pop, Disco Bear and Fliqpy have deep, gruff voices that many bears, real and fictional, are known for.

* In ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'', while the characters always [[SpeakingSimlish talk in gibberish]], Lammy the lamb's gibberish sounds more like a sheep's "baaa".

** WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck, his nephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie, and the Daisy Duck prototype Donna Duck all have somewhat unintelligible, quacky duck-accented voices. Daisy only had a duck accent during her debut in "Mr. Duck Steps Out". Huey, Dewey, and Louie downplay the duck accent greatly in ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'', but had it again when Donald's voice actor voiced them in ''MouseWorks'' and ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'', and lack it entirely in ''WesternAnimation/QuackPack'' and ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017''.

* ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'': Scooby Doo is famous for his dog-sounding voice and replacing most beginning consonants with an "r" sound.

* The mice in ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'' have high-pitched mouse voices.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994''

* In ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'', Dory "speaking Whale" is represented by her [[RuleOfFunny talking in English in a moaning voice, strangely elongating the vowels]] to resemble a whale song. The whale she talks to actually understands what she says, suggesting whales in this universe really talk like that.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'' averts this… with one notable exception. Sloths… put long… and… irregular… gaps… between… their… words.

* ''Film/AnimalFarm1999'' has the sheep given a "baaa" and "meh" accent. The 1954 animated adaptation has most of the animal cast (except for the pigs) only communicating by making normal animal noises. The only other animals with spoken dialogue are the sheep, who are given bleating accents, such as reciting "Two Legs Good, Four Legs Bad" while bleating the word "bad".

* The 1999 TV Movie adaptation of Creator/GeorgeOrwell's ''Literature/AnimalFarm'' has the sheep given a "baaa" and "meh" accent. The 1954 animated adaptation has most of the animal cast (except for the pigs) only communicating by making normal animal noises. The only other animals with spoken dialogue are the sheep, who are given bleating accents, such as reciting "Two Legs Good, Four Legs Bad" while bleating the word "bad".

* The 1999 TV Movie adaptation of Creator/GeorgeOrwell's ''Literature/AnimalFarm'' has the sheep given a "baaa" and "meh" accent. The 1954 animated adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/AnimalFarm'' has most of the animal cast (except for the pigs) only communicating by making normal animal noises. The only other animals with spoken dialogue are the sheep, who are given bleating accents, such as reciting "Two Legs Good, Four Legs Bad" while bleating the word "bad".

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'' averts this… with one notable exception. Sloths… put… long… gaps… between… their… words.

** Creator/JamesEarlJones was chosen as the voice of Mufasa because his BadassBaritone sounds a lot like a lion roar.

* The 1999 TV Movie adaptation of Creator/GeorgeOrwell's ''Literature/AnimalFarm'' has the sheep given a "baaa" and "meh" accent. While the 1954 animated adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/AnimalFarm'' has most of the animal cast (except for the pigs) only communicating by making normal animal noises. The only animals that have some dialogue is the sheep who are given bleating accents, such as reciting "Two Legs Good, Four Legs Bad" where they are bleating the word "bad".

* The sheep from the 1995 film ''Film/{{Babe}}'' and it's sequel, all speak in a manner that sounds like actual sheep bleats. Notably when they recite the special "Sheep Code" "Baa Ram Ewe" to Fly.

* In the early 1980s English dub of Creator/{{Sanrio}}'s film adaptation of ''Anime/RingingBell'', [[SweetSheep Chirin the Lamb]] (voiced by Creator/BarbaraGoodson) is occasionally heard talking with a bleating pattern. He starts to lose it after the death of his mother and [[TookALevelInJerkass gets more threatening as a result.]]

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'': In the Japanese version Nyarth has a VerbalTic of "nya" and a "cat sounding" voice. The English dub originally had Meowth say his name often as a counterpart, but [[AbandonedCatchphrase they ultimately abandoned the tic]].

* Gentle Heart Lamb from the ''Franchise/CareBears'' franchise ([[WesternAnimation/CareBears1980s notably the 1980s incarnations]]) speaks in bleating tone, even as she's scared or sad.

Supertrope to SssnakeTalk and OwlsAskWho. Supertrope of TrrrillingRrrs when used to denote feline purring.

* "Disco Duck" by Rick Dees features a few lines from the eponymous bird that's pretty much just a Donald Duck impression.

Supertrope to SssnakeTalk. Supertrope of TrrrillingRrrs when used to denote feline purring.

Supertrope to SssnakeTalk.

* Lollichop the Sheep (voiced by late voice actress Russi Taylor) from the 1983 EasterSpecial ''WesternAnimation/PeterAndTheMagicEgg' frequently speaks in a bleating pattern.

* Lambie from ''WesternAnimation/DocMcStuffins'' bleats when she speaks, often saying that things are "baaa-utiful".

* Catra, the cat-based villain from ''WesternAnimation/SheRaPrincessOfPower'' would often talk with mewls, or emphasizing the purr in perfect, not unlike Catwoman from the 1966 ''[[Series/Batman1966 Batman]]''.
* WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes:
** WesternAnimation/PorkyPig seems like a stutterer, and indeed, he was a stutterer in the first few cartoons he is in. But WordOfGod says that Porky Pig's stutter is actually a species accent based on pig grunts.
** The Tasmanian Devil, despite having an InformedSpecies, his voice has a very believably Tasmanian Devil sound to it. He speaks intelligibly with a Tasmanian Devil sound to it in ''WesternAnimation/{{Tazmania}}'', but in the original cartoons and in other works, he is also TheUnintelligible.

* ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'': Scooby Doo is famous for his dog-sounding voice and replacing most beginning consonants with an "r" sound.
** Astro from ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons'' speaks in a very similar manner (both characters were originally voiced by Don Messick).

* In ''WesternAnimation/ThreeTwoOnePenguins'', Bert Bertman has a high-pitched voice due to him being a hamster.
** The sheep from Planet Picket in ''The Green-Eyed Monster'' have the "baaa" in their accents.
* In ''WesternAnimation/LegendOfTheThreeCaballeros'', the Minotaur initially speaks with nothing but "moo" sounds. After revealing that he actually speaks English, he still adds "moo" into his sentences.
* In ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'', while the characters always [[SpeakingSimlish talk in gibberish]], Lammy the lamb's gibberish sounds more like a sheep's "baaa".
** Lumpy's voice is also deep and his screams, when not [[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl high-pitched]], sound like a moose's moaning.

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* In the English dub of Creator/{{Sanrio}}'s film adaptation of ''Anime/RingingBell'', [[SweetSheep Chirin the Lamb]] (voiced by Creator/BarbaraGoodson) is occasionally heard talking with a bleating pattern. He starts to lose it after the death of his mother and [[TookALevelInJerkass gets more threatening as a result.]]

[[caption-width-right:349:"And just [[OwlsAskWho hoo]] might you be, miss?"]]

[[caption-width-right:349:"And just [[OwlsAskWho hoo]] might you be?"]]

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