List of animal sounds

This is a list of animal sounds. This list contains words used in the English language to represent the noises and vocalizations of particular animals, especially noises used by animals for communication. The words which are used on the list are in the form of verbs, though many can also be used as nouns or interjections, and many of them are also specifically onomatopoeias (labelled "OP"). This list also contains audio recordings of animal sounds.

List of animal sounds
picture of animal
Animal Name of sound Audio recording of sound
Alligator bellow, hiss
Antelope snort[1]
Badgers growl[2]
Bats screech[3]
Bears roar, growl
Bees buzz[4]
Big cats (tigers, lions, jaguars & leopards) roar,[5] growl,[6] snarl[7]
Cat/kitten mew, meow, purr, hiss
Chicken/hen/chick cluck, crow[8] (female = OP: cha-caw, bah-gawk)[9]
(male = OP: cock-a-doodle-doo)
Chinchillas squeak[10]
Cicadas chirp[11]
Cow/bull/calf low, moo
Crab/crablet
Crickets chirp
Crows caw, cah[12]
Curlews pipe[13]
Deer bellow (buck), bleat (doe, fawn)
Dog/puppy bark, howl, growl, bay (OP: arf, bow-wow, ruff, woof, yap)
Dolphin/calf click[14]
Donkey/ass hee-haw[15] bray
Duck/duckling quack
Eagle/eaglet screech[16]
Elephant/calf trumpet
Elk bugle (male),[17] bleat (calves)[18]
Ferrets dook[19]
Fly buzz
Frogs/toads croak (OP: ribbit)
Giraffes bleat[20]
Goat bleat, baah
Goose/gosling honk, hiss
Grasshoppers chirp[21]
Guinea pigs squeak[22]
Hamsters squeak[23]
Hare/leveret squeak
Hedgehog/hoglet
Hermit crabs chirp[24]
Hippopotamuses growl[25]
Hornet buzz
Horse/foal neigh, whinny, nicker
Hummingbird warble
Hyenas laugh
Jay chatter[26]
Kangaroo/joey chortle
Koala shriek
Linnets chuckle[27]
Lion roar growl snarl
Locust chirp[21]
Magpies chatter[28]
Monkeys scream, chatter
Moose bellow[29]
Mosquito buzz, whine[30]
Mouse squeak
Okapi cough, bellow[31]
Owl/owlet hoot, hiss, screech (screech owls)
Parrots squawk, talk
Peacocks/peachick scream[32]
Pig/piglet oink,[25][33] snort,[34] squeal, grunt
Pigeons coo
Prairie dogs bark[35]
Quail call
Rabbits squeak
Raccoons trill[36]
Rats squeak
Ravens caw
Rhinoceroses bellow
Rooks caw
Rooster crow
Seals bark[37]
Seahorse/seafoal
Sheep/lamb bleat, baa
Shrew/shrewlet
Snails Munch, crunch
Snake/snakelet hiss, rattle
Songbirds chirrup, chirp, tweet, sing,
warble (larks / warblers / wrens),[38][39] twitter (sparrows)[40]
Squirrel/chipmunk squeak
Swan/cygnet cry, trumpet, bugle
Tapirs squeak[41]
Tokay geckos croak[42]
Turkey/turkey-chick gobble
Turtle/turtlet
Vultures scream
Walruses groan
Wasp buzz
Whale/calf sing
Wild boar grumble
Wolf howl, growl, bay
Zebra neigh, whinny, nicker
Note: In the above list, a notation of "OP" refers to onomatopoeia.

See also


References
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