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This lists various names animals can have. There are often multiple names that can apply in each situation. Many species of animals, particularly those domesticated, have been given specific names for the male, the female, and the young of the species. There are a few generic terms, "bull-cow-calf", for instance, that are found across species, but many species have been granted unique names for these gender/age characteristics. Empty table cells indicate incomplete data, and should not be interpreted to mean that the animal does not have a specific name of that type.

See also: List of collective nouns.

Formal names

Animal Young Female Male Group Adjective Meat
Aardvark pup
African Wild Dog pup pack
Alligator hatchling cow bull bask, congregation eusuchian
Alpaca cria hembra macho herd, flock camelid
Angelfish fry host[1]
Armadillo pup zed lister fez tolypeutine
Ant antling queen, worker, gyne drone army, colony, nest, swarm, bike formic, myrmecine
Anteater pup myrmecophagine
Antelope calf doe buck herd, cluster alcelaphine, bubaline, antilopine
Ape infant [2] [2] shrewdness, troop simian
Ass[3] foal jenny jack pace, drove, herd, coffle asinine, equine
Baboon infant [2] troop, congress, tribe, flange[1]
Badger kit sow boar cete, colony, set, company musteline
Barracuda battery percesocine
Bat pup [2] [2] colony, cloud pteropine, noctillionine
Bear cub sow boar sleuth, sloth ursine
Beaver kit kitten, pup [2] [2] family, colony
Bee larva, pupa queen, worker [4] drone grist, hive, swarm, colony apic, apian, apiarian
Beetle larva [2] [2] possi
Bird chick hen cock [3] flock avian, muscicapine, oscine, passerine, pendeline, volucrine, ornithic
Bison calf cow bull herd,troop bisontine
Bittern chick sedge
Blackbird icterine
Bluebird turdine[5]
Bobolink chain
Buffalo calf cow bull herd bovine, bubaline
Bullfinch pyrrhuline
Bunting emberizine, pyrrhuloxine
Butterfly caterpillar rabble, flight, swarm, kaleidoscope, rainbow pieridine, pierine
Buzzard chick hen cock[3] wake buteonine, cathartine
Camel calf cow bull flock camelid
Cardinal pyrrhuloxine
Cassowary chick
Cat kitten queen tom [6] clowder, clutter, pounce, kindle (young), embarrassment (young) feline
Caterpillar butterfly butterfly army
Cattle[7] calf cow bull herd, drove bovine[8], vituline (young), vaccine (female), taurine (male) beef, veal
Chamois calf doe bull herd rupicaprine
Cheetah cub [2] [2] coalition
Chicken chick hen, pullet Rooster, cock[3][9] flock, brood, peep galline chicken[10], poultry
Chimpanzee infant [2] [2] community, group, cartload,posse
Civet viverrine
Clam bed
Cobra quiver[11] elapine
Cockroach nymph intrusion[11]
Coral reef
Cormorant gulp[11], flight phalacrocoracine
Cougar cub, pup
Coyote cub, pup, whelp bitch[3] dog pack, train
Crab cancrine
Crane herd, sedge, siege alectorine
Crocodile crocklet cow bull bask, nest, congregation, float crocodilian
Crow chick murder, horde, parcel, hover, congress, muster, storytelling corvine
Cuckoo cuculine
Deer fawn, ass[3] doe, hind, cow buck, stag, bull herd cervine, elaphine venison, humble (organ meat)
Dinosaur dinosauric, saurian
Dodo didine
Dog whelp, pup bitch[3] sire pack, litter (young), kennel, gang, legion canine
Dolphin calf, pup cow bull team, school, pod, herd, alliance (male), party (female) delphine
Donkey foal jenny jack band, drove, herd, pace, coffle asinine
Dormouse myoxine
Dove chick cote, flight, dole, dule, duet, troop, piteousness, pitying, prettying columbine
Duck duckling duck, hen drake flock, brace, team[12] anatine, fuliguline poultry
Eagle eaglet [2] [2] convocation, brood, aerie aquiline
Earthworm sloop lumbricine
Echidna puggle
Eel elver [2] [2] swarm
Elephant calf cow bull herd, herd, flock, parade, memory elephantine
Elk calf cow bull gang, herd cervine venison
Emu chick mob, ratite, struthious
Ermine musteline
Falcon eyass falcon tiercel acciptrine
Fennec skulk vulpine
Ferret kit jill hob [13] business musteline
Finch chick hen cock[3] charm, chirm, trembling, trimming fringilline
Fish fry, fingerling school, shoal piscine, ichthyic
Flamingo hen cock[3] stand, flamboyance phoenicopterine
Flea abscondance pulicene
Flying fox flock pteropine
Fox cub, kit, pup vixen reynard, todd, dog leash, skulk vulpine
Frog polliwog, tadpole, froglet army, colony, froggery, knot ranine
Gazelle calf gazelline
Gerbil pup doe buck horde cricetine
Gibbon flange hylobatine
Giraffe calf cow bull tower, corps, herd, journey giraffine
Goat kid doe, nannie buck, billy[14] herd caprine, hircine chevon
Goldfinch chick hen cock[3] charm, chattering, drum, troubling, vein
Goose gosling goose gander gaggle (skein when in flight)[12] anatine, anserine poultry
Gorilla infant [2] [2] troop, group (band)
Groundhog Repetition
Guanaco chulengo camelid
Guinea pig pup sow boar herd
Gull chick, scorrie[15] hen cock[3] flock larine
Hamster pup doe buck horde cricetine
Hare leveret doe, jill buck, jack band, down leverine, leporine
Hawk eyas hen tiercel cast, kettle, boil accipitrine, falconine
Hedgehog hoglet sow boar array
Heron chick hen cock[3] siege[12]
Hippopotamus calf cow bull bloat, crash, herd, thunder[11] hippopotamine
Hog sow boar drift, herd suilline
Hornet larvae, pupae queen drone swarm vespine
Horse[16] foal mare stallion herd, harass equine
Human infant, child woman, mother man, father crowd, tribe, family, people human, anthropomorphic, humanoid, hominine
Hummingbird hen cock[3] charm, chattering, drum, hover, troubling trochiline
Hyena cub, pup, whelp bitch[3] dog clan, cackle hyenine
Iguana iguanian
Insect larva swarm insectoid, insectan, insectile
Jackal pup pack
Jay chick hen cock[3] band, party garruline
Jellyfish ephyra smack, bloom, brood, smuth, smuck, fluther
Kangaroo joey flyer, doe boomer, buck mob, troop, court macropodine
Kestrel falconine
Kingfisher halcyonine
Kite milvine
Ladybug larva [2] [2] loveliness, possi
Lamprey
Lark chick hen cock[3] exaltation
Leech hirudine
Lemming suicide pact, cliff microtine
Lemur troop lemurine
Leopard cub leopardess leopard leap, lepe pardine
Limpet patelline
Lion cub lioness lion pride leonine
Lizard lacertilian, saurian
Llama cria hembra macho herd, flock camelid
Lobster hen cock[3] homarine
Louse nymph [2] [2] colony, infestation, lice pediculine
Macaw psittacine
Macropod macropodian
Magpie hen cock[3] tiding, tittering, gulp, murder, charm, flock garruline
Mallard duckling hen drake sord, lute, brace, puddling, flush anatine
Manatee calf cow bull herd manatine, sirenian
Marten richness musteline
Meadowlark icterine
Meerkat gang or mob
Mink cub, kit sow boar musteline
Minnows shoal, swarm &nbsp
Mite acarine
Mockingbird mimine
Mole pup [2] [2] labour,company, movement talpine
Mongoose viverrine, herpestine
Monkey infant [2] [2] troop, barrel, tribe, cartload simian
Moose calf cow bull cervine
Mosquito nymph, wriggler, tumbler [2] [2] scourge, swarm aedine, anopheline
Moth arctian
Mouse pinkie, kitten, pup doe buck nest, colony, harvest, horde, mischief murine
Mule foal hinney, jenny jack barren, pack, span, rake
Newt eft
Nigger niggerette negress negroid posse, homeless, rap crew, troupe, welfare niggerlishis Nightingale chick hen cock[3] watch, flock, route, match philomelian
Octopus arran octopine
Opossum joey jill jack didelphine
Orangutan buffoonery
Oriole icterine
Oryx orygine
Ostrich hen cock[3] flock, troop ratite, struthious
Otter pup, whelp [2] [2] romp, bevy, lodge, family, raft musteline, lutrine
Owl owlet parliament, stare, wisdom strigine
Ox calf cow bull yoke, team, drove, herd, nye bovine
Oyster bed, hive, cast, culch ostracine
Panda cub sow boar
Panther cub pantherine
Parrot chick hen cock[3] company, flock, prattle, pandemonium psittacine
Partridge chick, cheeper hen, chantelle cock[3] covey perdicine
Peafowl chick, peachick peahen peacock muster, ostentation, pride pavonine
Pelican chick, nestling hen cock[3]
Penguin chick hen cock[3] colony, rookery, parade, parcel, crèche, huddle spheniscine
Pheasant chick hen cock[3] bouquet, nest, nide, nye, brood, covey alectorine, phasianine pheasant
Pig[17] piglet, shoat, bonham, gilt(female) sow boar herd, drove, mob porcine, sulline, ovine pork, ham, bacon
Pigeon squab hen cock[3] flight, loft, flock, dropping, kit pullastrine
Platypus pug pile ornithorhynchine
Plover chick hen cock[3] wing, congregation charadrine
Polar bear cub sow boar stocks or populations
Polecat kit jill hob chine musteline
Pony Foal (either), Colt (Young, immature male), Filly (Young, immature female) Mare Stallion Herd Equus
Porcupine pup sow boar prickle, family hystricine
Porpoise calf cow bull school, crowd, herd, pod phocaenine
Praying mantis nyph,larva [2] [2]
Python pythonid
Quail chick hen cock[3] covey coturnine
Rabbit bunny, kit, kitten, leveret, nestling doe, jill buck, jack warren, nest, colony, bevy, bury, drove, trace leporine, lapine lapin, lapan
Raccoon kit sow boar nursery procyonine
Rail chick reeve ruff ralline
Ram Lamb Ewe Ram Flock arietine, ovine
Rat kitten, nestling, pinkie, pup doe buck colony, horde, pack, plague, swarm murine
Rattlesnake crotaline
Raven chick hen cock[3] unkindness[1], congress, conspiracy, parliament, murder, storytelling, nevermore corvine
Reptile reptilian, serpentine
Reindeer calf cow bull herd rangiferine
Rhea struthious
Rhinoceros calf cow bull crash, herd ceratorhine
Robin darling turdine
Rodent glirine
Roebuck capreoline
Rook chick hen cock[3] building, parliament
Sable zibeline
Salamander salamandrine
Salmon hen jack salmonid
Scorpion instar bed, nest, colony
Sea horse herd hippocampine
Sea lion pup, beach weaner cow bull pod, colony, crash, flock, harem, bob, herd/rookery, team, hurdle otarine
Sea urchin larva, pluteus (free-swimming stage), juvenile (young urchin) [2] [2]
Seal pup cow bull same as sea lion phocine, otarine
Serpent serpentine
Shark pup [2] bull slew, shiver[11]
Sheep lamb ewe ram[14] drove, flock, herd ovine lamb, mutton, hoggett, haggis (visceral meat)
Shrew soricine
Silkworm bombycine
Siskin ebert
Skunk kit boar surfeit, stink musteline
Skylark alaudine
Sloth iki
Slug limacine
Smelt atherine
Snail walk escargot
Snake snakelet, neonate (a newly-born snake), hatchling (a newly-hatched snake) [2] [2] pit, nest or bed anguine, elapine, colubrine, ophidian, reptilian, serpentine, viperine
Snipe chick hen cock[3] walk, wisp charadrine
Songbird oscine
Sparrow chick hen cock[3] flight, host, quarrel, tribe, ubiquity passerine
Spider spiderling cluster, clutter, venom arachnine, arachnoid
Squid calamari
Squirrel pup, kit, kitten doe buck dray, scurry[11] sciurine
Stag cervine, elaphine
Stoat musteline
Stork gosling ciconine
Sturgeon acipenserine
Swallow hen cock[3] hirundine
Swan cygnet, flapper pen cob gaggle, bevy, wedge(flying), flock, game, team, ballet, regatta, bank, whiteness, gargle, eyrar anatine, cygnine
Swift chick hen cock[3] flock cypseline
Tapir larva [2] [2] colony
Termite termitine
Tick acarine
Tiger cub tigress tiger streak[11], ambush tigrine
Toad tadpole, toadlet [2] [2] knot, lump ranine, batrachian
Tortoise creep chelonian, testudine
Trout fingerling, fry shedder jack hover
Turkey poult, chick hen tom rafter, flock meleagrine poultry
Turtle hatchling [2] [2] bale chelonian
Umbrellabird cephalopterine
Vole microtine
Vulture vulturine
Viper viperid
Wasp queen drone vespine
Weasel bitch[3], doe, and jill buck, dog, hub, or jack boogle musteline
Whale calf cow bull gam, pod, herd cetacean, cetaceous
Wildfowl chick hen cock[3] flock
Wolf cub, pup, whelp bitch[3], fae dog, brute pack, rout lupine
Wombat joey jill jack mob, warren, wisdom, army phascolomian
Woodcock hen rooster charadrine, scolopacine
Woodpecker chick hen cock[3]
Worm bed, bunch, clew, squirm helminthic, vermian
Wren chick jenny cock[3] flock troglodytine
X-ray fish tetragonopterinine
Yak calf cow bull herd bovine
Zebra foal mare stallion crossing, dazzle,harem, herd, zeal equine, zebrine, hippotigrine

Notes

  1. ^ a b "Collective Terms for Groups of Animals". Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford University Press.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar This animal does not have a specific name for the indicated gender. For example, "male cheetah".
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am This word is considered a profanity in American English under certain connotations.
  4. ^ A worker bee is a sexually undeveloped female.
  5. ^ Turdine pertains to entire family turdidae, including the true thrushes
  6. ^ A castrated male cat is a gib or neuter.
  7. ^ Castrated male cattle are steers in the United States, or a bullock in the United Kingdom. A young female cow that has not given birth is a heifer. See Cattle for more names. Cow is often used informally to refer to cattle in general.
  8. ^ Bovine refers to all species of genus Bos.
  9. ^ A castrated male chicken is a capon.
  10. ^ http://mw1.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chicken
  11. ^ a b c d e f g Universe in Your Pocket by Joel Levy, published by Barnes & Noble, Inc.
  12. ^ a b c A group of geese, herons, or ducks in flight is a skein.
  13. ^ A castrated male ferret is a gib.
  14. ^ a b A castrated male sheep or goat is a wether. See sheep for more names.
  15. ^ http://www.caithness.org/caithnessfieldclub/bulletins/2002/local_caithness_bird_names.htm
  16. ^ A castrated male horse is a gelding. A male foal is a colt, and a female foal is a filly.
  17. ^ A young female pig that has not given birth is a gilt. A castrated male pig is a barrow.
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