List of animal sounds

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 Sound
Alligator bellow, hiss
Alpaca alarm call, cluck/click, hum, orgle, scream[1]
Antelope snort[2]
Badger growl[3]
Bat screech,[4] squeak
Bear roar, growl
Bee buzz
Big cat (Tiger, Lion, Jaguar, Leopard) roar,[5] growl,[6] snarl[7]
Image of a capybara eating hay Capybara squeak,[8] chatter, bark
Cat mew, meow, purr, hiss, trill, caterwaul, growl
Cattle moo, low
Chicken cluck, buck, crow[9]
cha-caw, bah-gawk (female)[10]
cock-a-doodle-doo (male)
Chinchilla squeak[11]
Cicada chirp[12]
Crab chirp, click, creak[13]
Crane clang
Cricket chirp
Crow caw, cah[14]
Curlew pipe[15]
Deer bellow (buck), bleat (doe, fawn)
Dog bark, howl, growl, bay
Dolphin click[16]
Donkey hee-haw,[17] bray
Duck quack
Eagle screech[18]
Elephant trumpet
Elk bugle (male),[19] bleat (calves)[20]
Ferret dook[21]
Fly buzz
Fox bark, scream, howl, snore, gecker[22]
Frog croak, ribbit
Gaur low, moo
Giraffe bleat,[23] hum[24]
Goat bleat, maa
Goose honk, hiss
Grasshopper chirp[25]
Guinea pig wheek[26]
Hamster squeak[27]
Hawk screech
Hermit crab chirp[28]
Hippopotamus growl[29]
Hornet buzz
Horse neigh, whinny, nicker, hoofbeats (clip-clop)
Hyena laugh
Jackal gecker[6]
Koala bellow, shriek
Kangaroo jump
Lemur chatter, whoop
Leopard roar, growl, snarl
Linnet chuckle[30]
Lion roar, growl, snarl
Locust chirp[25]
Magpie chatter[31]
Monkey scream, chatter, gecker,[6] howl
Moose bellow[32]
Mosquito buzz, whine
Mouse squeak
Okapi cough, bellow[33]
Owl hoot, hiss, caterwaul for barred owls
Ox low, moo
Parrot squawk, talk
Peacock scream,[34] squawk, honk
Pig oink,[29][35] snort,[36] squeal, grunt
Pigeon coo
Prairie dog bark[37]
Quail call
Rabbit squeak
Raccoon trill[38]
Rat squeak
Raven caw
River otter blow, chatter, chirp, creek, grunt, hiccup, hiss, scream, squeak, swish, whine, whistle, chatterchirp,[39] purr[40]
Rook caw
Seal bark[41]
Sheep bleat, baa
Snake hiss, rattle
Songbird chirrup, chirp, tweet, sing,
warble (larks / warblers / wrens),[42][43] twitter (sparrows)[44]
Squirrel squeak
Swan cry, trumpet, bugle
Tapir squeak[45]
Tokay gecko croak[46]
Turkey gobble
Whale sing
Wild boar growl, grumble
Wildebeest low, moo
Wolf howl, growl, bay
Zebra bray, bark, whistle, yip, nicker

See also

References
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  2. Caro, Tim (2005). Antipredator Defenses in Birds and Mammals. University of Chicago Press. p. 250. ISBN 9780226094366.
  3. Schwartz, Charles Walsh; Schwartz, Elizabeth Reeder (2001). The Wild Mammals of Missouri (2nd revised ed.). University of Missouri Press. p. 316. ISBN 9780826213594.
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  7. Schaller, George B. (1967). The Deer and the Tiger. University of Chicago Press. p. 261. ISBN 9780226736570.
  8. Barros, Kamila S.; Tokumaru, Rosana S.; Pedroza, Janine P.; Nogueira, Selene S. C. (2010-11-22). "Vocal Repertoire of Captive Capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris): Structure, Context and Function". Ethology. 117 (1): 83–94. doi:10.1111/j.1439-0310.2010.01853.x. ISSN 0179-1613.
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  17. Metz, Lorijo (2011). Donkeys: Jennies, Jacks, and Foals. The Rosen Publishing Group. p. 10. ISBN 9781448806881.
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