i really like the big crosslinguistic charts on the link you posted.

here’s another “sounds of the world’s animals” link, from a linguist. it includes sound files of the actual animal noises!!

http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/ballc/animals/

I particularly like the fact that this is on the university of Adelaide’s SChool of Electrical and Electronic Engineering homepage. And did they get clearance from the Ethics Committee before interviewing all those animals?

The three times i was in France, the kitties went MEENU, MEENU, unless the french people were just messing with me?

A little three-year-old taught me this cute little song about baby chickens. She learned it from her nanny, a native Spanish speaker. Cutest song ever!
“Los pollitos dicen
Pio pio pio
Cuando tienen hambre,
Cuando tienen frio…”

Also, I think my dove knows Spanish. I swear he says “cucurrucu” instead of “coo-coo”.

“walking in rapid little circles, and make your getaway …”

I, too, thought this was hilarious.

Oh, *shoe*.

Yes, I can see that being an incredibly useful sentence. “Excuse me, sir…”

“You have a potato in your…” ?

Feu! Feu!

“Où est la salle de bain?”

“Vous avez un pomme de terre en votre chaussure.”

I remember that, but not how to say “Fire!”

When I first started French in high school, one of the first things we learned was the French words for animal sounds. Kind of a funny thing to learn right up front, since it didn’t seem as useful as, say, “Where is the bathroom?” or “Fire!” I do remember there being fish on that list, though. I think it was “glou, glou.”