List of animal sounds

This is a list of animal sounds, sounds made by animals. First verbs used to label animal sounds are listed, followed by figures of speech that imitate those sounds. Please note that these lists are only valid for the English language, as different languages use different animal sounds.

Verbs

Below is a list of appropriate English verbs corresponding to the sounds made by various animals.

Asses- bray, heha Badger - growl Bear- growl: Grrr Bees -hum and buzz Beetles- drone Birds- chirrup, chirp, tweet, and sing: Bird song Bitterns- boom Blackbirds- whistle Bulls-moo Calves bleat moo Cats- mew, purr, meow and hiss, yowl, spit Cattle moo Chaffinches fink Chicks- cheep Chickens -cluck Cicadas- sing Cocks- crow cockadoodledo Cows -moo Coyotes - yelp, cry Crows -caw Cuckoos -cuckoo Deer -bell Dinosaurs - rawr, grr, growl, and screech Dogs -bark, bay, growl, howl, yowl, whine, yip, and yap Dolphins -click Donkeys -bray, HE HA Doves- coo Ducks -quack

Eagles -scream, cry Elephants- trumpet Falcons -chant Ferrets -dook Flies- buzz Foxes- bark and yelp Frogs -croak ribbit Giant pandas bleat Giraffes -bleat Goats- bleat, baa Geese- cackle and hiss or honk or quack Grasshoppers -chirp: Stridulation Guinea pigs -squeak (many guinea pig owners dub this noise as a "wheek") Hares -squeak Hawks- scream, crow Hens -cluck Horses -neigh or whinny Hyenas -laugh Jackals -howl Jays -chatter Komodo dragon - growl Lambs- bleat, baaa Linnets -chuckle Lions -roar Magpies -chatter Mice -squeak and squeal Monkeys -gibber, hoohoohaa, ahh

Nightingales -pipe and warble Ostriches -EEEK Owls -screech, shriek, and hoot Oxen -low Parrots -talk whatcha doin Peacocks- scream Penguins - meep meep Pigs- oink, snort, grunt, and squeal Pigeons -coo Prairie dogs- bark, woof Raccoons -chitter Ravens -croak Rooks- caw Sharks - hom hom, chomp Sheep -bleat, baa Snakes -hiss Sparrows -chirp Stags -bellow Swallows -twit, and squeal Swans -cry Tigers -growl, grrrr Thrushes-whistle Turkeys -gobble gobble Vultures -scream Walruses -ort Whales -sing: Whale song. waaaa Wolves -howl, cry bark Zebras -click. heha

See also

• Animal communication
• Animal echolocation
• Animal song
• Bioacoustics
• Cat communication
• Bark (dog)
• Zoomusicology
• Old McDonald Had a Farm, each verse of the song changes the name of the animal and its respective noise

External links

• List of animal sounds to downnload,listen and use for free.
• Multilingual list of animal sounds
• Bzzzpeek – Collection of animal onomatopoeia from around the world (Flash required)
• Multilingual recording of animal sounds - dog, rooster & donkey