List of animal sounds
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Certain words in the English language represent animal sounds: the noises and vocalizations of particular animals, especially noises used by animals for communication. The words can be used as verbs or interjections in addition to nouns, and many of them are also specifically onomatopoeic.
List of animal sounds
| Picture | Animal | Description | Audio recording |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alligator | bellow, hiss | Alligator bellow | |
| Alpaca | alarm call, cluck/click, hum, orgle, scream | ||
| Antelope | snort | ||
| Badger | growl | Badger | |
| Bat | screech, squeak, eek | Bats | |
| Bear | roar, growl | Bear cub growl | |
| Bee | buzz | Hummel bee Xylocopa pubescens (carpenter bee) offsprings | |
| Big cat (Tiger, Lion, Jaguar, Leopard) | roar, growl, snarl | Tiger growl Jaguar making a content "sawing" sound. | |
| Bison | bellow, moo, low | ||
| Camel | grunt | ||
| Capybara | squeak, chatter, bark | ||
| Cat | mew, meow, purr, hiss, trill, chirp, chatter, caterwaul, growl, mrrp, nya | Cat meow Domestic cat purring | |
| Cattle | moo, low | ||
| Chicken | cluck, buck, crow cha-caw, bah-gawk (female) cock-a-doodle-doo (male) | Rooster crowing | |
| Chinchilla | squeak | ||
| Cicada | chirp | Cicada | |
| Crab | chirp, click, creak[better source needed] | ||
| Crane | trumpet, bugle | ||
| Cricket | chirp | Cricket | |
| Crow | caw, cah | Black Crow | |
| Crocodile | hiss, growl | ||
| Curlew | pipe | ||
| Deer | bellow, bell (buck), bleat (doe, fawn) | Red deer | |
| Dog | arf, bark, boof, bay, howl, growl, snarl, moan, whine, whimper, yelp, scream, sigh, sneeze, woof, yip, yap | Dog bark | |
| Dolphin | click, whistle, squeal | Dolphins calling | |
| Donkey | hee-haw, bray | Domestic donkey brays | |
| Duck | quack | Mallard Duck | |
| Eagle | screech | Bald Eagle | |
| Elephant | trumpet, snort, rumble, growl, roar | Elephant trumpet | |
| Elk | bugle (male), bleat (calves) | Elk bellow | |
| Ferret | dook | ||
| Fish | brrp, click, blub, glub, honk | ||
| Fly | buzz | ||
| Fox | bark, scream, howl, snore, gecker | Fox scream | |
| Frog | croak, ribbit, chirp | Pacific tree frog | |
| Gaur | low, moo | ||
| Giraffe | bleat, hum | Giraffe hum | |
| Goat | bleat, maa | Herd of goats bleating | |
| Goose | honk, hiss | Geese Honking | |
| Grasshopper | chirp | Grasshoppers chirping | |
| Guinea pig | wheek | ||
| Hamster | squeak | ||
| Hawk | screech | Hawk screeching | |
| Hermit crab | chirp | ||
| Hippopotamus | growl, grunt, snort | ||
| Hornet | buzz | Hummel bee | |
| Horse | neigh, whinny, nicker, hoofbeats (clip-clop) | ||
| Hyena | laugh | Spotted Hyena | |
| Jackal | gecker | ||
| Koala | bellow, shriek | ||
| Laughing kookaburra | laugh | ||
| Lemur | chatter, whoop | ||
| Leopard | roar, growl, snarl | ||
| Linnet | chuckle | ||
| Lion | roar, growl, snarl | Lion roar | |
| Lizard | hiss | ||
| Locust | chirp | ||
| Magpie | chatter | Magpie | |
| Meerkat | bark | ||
| Monkey | scream, chatter, gecker, howl | Mantled Howler Monkey (Alouatta palliata) | |
| Moose | bellow | ||
| Mosquito | buzz, whine | ||
| Mouse | squeak | ||
| Okapi | cough, bellow | ||
| Opossum | click, growl, hiss | ||
| Owl | hoot, hiss, caterwaul for barred owls, twit twoo for tawny owls | Great horned owl | |
| Ox | low, moo | ||
| Parrot | squawk, talk | White-capped Parrot Rose-ringed Parakeet imitating human speech | |
| Peacock | scream, squawk, honk | Peacock | |
| Penguin | chirp, honk, trumpet, bray | ||
| Pig | oink, snort, squeal, grunt | Pig | |
| Pigeon | coo | Wood pigeon | |
| Prairie dog | bark | ||
| Quail | call | Call of a male common quail | |
| Rabbit | squeak | Rabbit | |
| Raccoon | trill | Baby Raccoon Chatter | |
| Rat | squeak | ||
| Raven | caw, cronk | Common Raven | |
| River otter | blow, chatter, chirp, creek, grunt, hiccup, hiss, scream, squeak, swish, whine, whistle, chatterchirp, purr | ||
| Rook | caw | ||
| Seal | bark | ||
| Sheep | bleat, baa, maa, meh (lambs) | Sheep | |
| Snake | hiss, rattle | Rattlesnake | |
| Songbird | chirrup, chirp, tweet, sing, warble (larks / warblers / wrens), twitter (sparrows) | Goldfinch | |
| Squirrel | squeak | ||
| Swan | cry, trumpet, bugle | Trumpeter swan | |
| Tapir | squeak | ||
| Tokay gecko | croak | Tokay gecko mating call | |
| Turkey | gobble | Wild Turkey | |
| Turtle | grunt (mating), hiss | ||
| Whale | sing | Humpback whale Sperm whale | |
| Wild boar | growl, grumble | Wild boar | |
| Wildebeest | low, moo | ||
| Wolf | howl, growl, bay | Wolf howls | |
| Zebra | bray, bark, whistle, yip, nicker |
See also
- Animal communication
- Animal epithet
- Animal language
- Bioacoustics
- Cat organ & piganino
- Cross-linguistic onomatopoeias
- Field recording
- List of animal names
- List of onomatopoeias
- "Old MacDonald Had a Farm"
- "The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?)"
External links
- Derek Abbott, University of Adelaide