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Template:Animalnouns This list gives names of animals used depending on the context. 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. An empty table cell indicates incomplete data and should not be interpreted to mean that the animal does not have a specific name of that type. However, a table cell with a dash in it signifies that no term for the indicated combination exists.

It is thought that many of the bizarre words used for collective groupings of animals were first published in 1486 in the Book of St. Albans, in an essay on hunting attributed to a Dame Juliana Barnes. Many of the words are thought to be chosen simply for the humorous or poetic images they conjured up in her lively imagination.^[1]

Most terms used here may be found in common dictionaries and general information web sites.^[2]^[3]^[4]

Generic terms

This table contains terms generally applicable across some common categories of animals.

Animal	Young	Female	Male	Group	Adjective	Meat
Bird	chick	hen	cock	flock	avian	poultry (if domesticated)
Bovine	calf	cow	bull	herd	bovine
Canine	pup^[5]	bitch	dog^{[note 1]}	pack	canine
Feline	kitten, cub	cat	tom		feline
Fish	fry, fingerling			school, shoal	piscine, ichthyic

Terms by species

Note that the table can be sorted by columns, by clicking the double-arrow symbols.

Animal	Young	Female	Male	Group	Adjective	Meat
Aardvark	cub	sow	boar	pack, grouping, maelstrom
African buffalo	calf	cow	bull
Alligator	hatchling	cow	bull	bask, congregation^[6]	eusuchian
American Bison (Buffalo)	calf	cow	bull	herd	bovine, bubaline
Ant	larva, pupa	queen, worker, gyne	drone	army, colony, nest, swarm, byke	formic, myrmecine
Anteater	pup	sow	boar
Antelope	calf^[7]	doe	buck	herd, cluster	alcelaphine, bubaline, antilopine
Ape	infant	—	—	shrewdness, troop	simian
Armadillo	pup, baby	sow	boar	herd, arrangement, pack	cingulatan
Ass/Donkey	foal	jenny	jack	pace, band, drove, herd, coffle	asinine
Baboon	infant	—		troop, tribe, flange^{[note 2]}^[2], congress ^{[citation needed]}
Badger	cub	sow	boar	cete, colony, sett, company	musteline
Bat	pup	—	—	colony, cloud, cauldron	pteropine, noctillionine
Bear	cub^[8]	sow	boar	sleuth, sloth	ursine
Beaver	kit, kitten, pup	—	—	family, colony
Bee	larva, pupa	queen, worker ^{[note 3]}	drone	grist, hive, swarm, colony	apic, apian, apiarian
Bison	calf	cow	bull	herd, troop
Boar	shoat			sounder
Bush baby	infant	queen	king, drake	congress, plot, gathering	galagine
Butterfly	caterpillar			rabble, flight, flutter, swarm	pieridine, pierine
Camel	calf	cow	bull	flock,herd	camelid, cameline
Cat	kitten, kit	molly, queen	tom ^{[note 4]}	clowder, clan,cluster^[2], clutter, glaring^[2], kindle (young)	feline
Cattle^{[note 5]}	calf^[9]	cow^[10]	bull	herd, drift^[2], drove, mob	bovine^{[note 6]}, vituline (young), vaccine (female), taurine (male)	beef, veal
Chamois	calf	doe	bull	herd	rupicaprine
Cheetah	cub			coalition
Chicken	chick, peep	hen, pullet	rooster, cock(-erel)^{[note 7]}	flock, brood	galline	poultry
Chimpanzee	infant	empress	blackback	troop, group, harem	panine
Cobra				quiver^[11], has	elapid
Cockroach	nymph			intrusion^[11]	blattid
Cormorant	chick			gulp^[11], flight
Cougar	cub	cougress		schoolyard
Coyote	cub, pup, whelp	bitch	dog	pack, train	canine
Crab	—	hen	cock, jimmy	consortium	cancrine
Crane	chick, colt^[12]			herd, sedge, siege	alectorine
Crocodile	hatchling	cow	bull	bask, nest, congregation, float	crocodilian
Crow				hover, murder, parcel^[2]	corvine
Deer	calf,^[7] fawn	doe, hind, cow^[7]	buck, stag, bull^[7], hart (red deer)	herd, mob, rangale^[2]	cervine, elaphine	venison, humble (organ meat)
Dog	whelp, pup^[5], puppy	bitch, dam	dog, stud, sire	pack, litter (young), kennel, gang, legion	canine
Dogfish				troop^[2]		capeshark (USA), rock salmon (UK), flake (UK, AUS), huss (UK), rigg (UK), kahada (CAN)^[13]
Dolphin	calf, pup	cow	bull	team, school, pod, herd, team^[2], alliance (male), party (female)	delphine
Donkey/Ass	foal	jenny	jack	pace, band, drove, herd, coffle	asinine
Dove	chick	hen	cock	cote, flight, dole, dule, piteousness,^[2] troop	columbine
Dragonfly	nymph	queen	king, drake	cluster, flight	anisopteran
Duck	duckling	duck, hen	drake	flock, brace, bunch (on water)^[2], team^{[note 8]}	anatine, fuliguline	poultry
Dugong	calf	cow	bull	herd, nutcluster	dugongine
Eagle	eaglet	—	—	convocation, brood, aerie	aquiline
Echidna	puggle	sow	boar	flock, parade, herd	tachyglossine
Eel	leptocephalus (larva), elver (juvenile)	—	—	swarm, cell, pipe, array
Eland	calf
Elephant	calf^[9]	cow^[10]	bull^[14]	herd, flock, parade	elephantine
Elephant seal	calf	cow	bull	herd, pack, arrangement	miroungan
Elk (wapiti)	calf^[7]	cow^[7]	bull^[7]	gang, herd	cervine	venison
Falcon	eyass/eyas	falcon	tiercel	gross, battalion	acciptrine
Ferret	kit	jill	hob^{[note 9]}	business, fesny(i)ng	musteline
Finch	chick	hen	cock	quiver	fringilline
Fly	maggot			swarm, cloud, business	dipterous
Fox	cub^[8], kit, pup^[5]	vixen	tod, dog	leash, skulk	vulpine
Frog	polliwog, tadpole, froglet	-	-	colony,bundle	ranine
Gaur	calf	cow	bull	herd	bovine, gaurine	garabeef
Gazelle	calf^[7]	cow^[7]	bull^[7]	herd	gazelline
Gerbil	pup	doe	buck	horde	cricetine
Giant Panda	cub	sow	boar
Giraffe	calf, giraffeling	cow	bull	herd, journey, stretch, tower	giraffine
Gnu	calf			briefcase
Goat	kid	doe, doeling	buck^{[note 10]}, buckling	herd, mob, tribe	caprine, hircine	chevon, cabrito, mutton
Goose	gosling	goose	gander	gaggle (skein when in flight)^{[note 8]}	anatine, anserine	poultry
Gorilla	infant	—	blackback, silverback	troop, group (band), flange	simian
Guanaco	chulengo				camelid
Guinea fowl	chick	hen	cock	rasp	numidine	poultry
Guinea pig	pup	sow	boar	herd
Gull	chick, scorrie^[15]	hen	cock	flock	larine
Hamster	pup	doe	buck	horde, saladbowl^{[citation needed]}	cricetid
Hare	leveret	doe, jill	buck, jack	band, down	leverine, leporine
Hawk	eyas	hen	tiercel	cast, kettle, boil^{[note 11]}	accipitrine, falconine
Hedgehog	hoglet	sow	boar	array^[2]	erinaceine
Heron				siege^{[note 8]}
Hippopotamus	calf	cow	bull	bloat, crash, herd, thunder^[11]	hippopotamine
Hornet	larvae, pupae	queen	drone	swarm	vespine
Horse^{[note 12]}	foal, colt (male), filly (female)	mare	stallion	herd, band, mob	equine
Human	child, girl, boy	woman	man	people, band, crowd, clan, tribe, children (young)	human	long pig^[16] (See cannibalism)
Hyena	cub, pup, whelp	bitch	dog	clan, cackle	hyenine
Iguana	Lizard	cow	dragon
Jackal	pup			pack
Jaguar	cub			shadow
Jellyfish	planula, polyp, ephyra^[17]	sow	boar	smack^[2], smuck^[2], smuth^[18], fluther^[3], bloom	sycophozan
Kangaroo	joey	flyer, doe	boomer, buck	mob, troop, court	macropodine
Komodo dragon	hatchling, chick, calf	cow, hen	bull, cock	bank	varanine
Kouprey	calf	cow	bull	herd	sauveline, bovine
Kudu	calf			fork\|
Lark	chick	hen	cock	exaltation	alaudine
Lemur	infant	princess	dictator	plot, congress, conspiracy	lemurine
Leopard	cub	leopardess	leopard	leap, lepe	pardine
Lion	cub^[8]	lioness	lion	pride	leonine
Llama	cria	hembra	macho	herd, flock	camelid
Loris	infant	doe	buck	colony, drove, harem, troop	lorisine
Louse	nymph	—	—	colony, infestation, lice	pediculine
Lobster		hen^[3]	cock^[3]	risk	homarine
Lyrebird		hen	cock	musket	menurine
Magpie	chick	hen	cock	tiding, tittering, gulp, murder, charm, flock	garruline
Mallard	duckling	hen	drake	sord, lute, brace, puddling, flush	anatine	poultry
Manatee	calf	cow	bull	herd	manatine, sirenian
Meerkat	pup	—	—	mob, clan, gang
Mink	cub, kit	sow	boar		musteline
Mole	pup	sow	boar	labour, company, movement	talpine
Monkey	infant	—	—	troop, barrel, tribe, cartload	simian
Moose	calf^[7]	cow^[7]	bull^[14]^[7]	herd	cervine	venison
Mouse	pinkie, kitten, pup	doe	buck	nest, colony, harvest, horde, mischief	murine	pinkie/fuzzie/hopper (pet food)
Mosquito	nymph, wriggler, tumbler	—	—	scourge, swarm, cloud	aedine, anopheline
Mule	foal	molly, mare mule	john, horse mule	barren, pack, span, rake
Nightingale	chick	hen	cock	watch, flock, route, match	philomelian
Okapi	calf	cow	bull	herd	okapine
Oryx	calf
Ostrich	hatchling, chick			flock, troop	ratite, struthious
Otter	pup, whelp	sow	boar	romp, bevy, lodge, family, raft	musteline, lutrine
Owl	owlet			parliament, stare, wisdom	strigine
Ox	calf	cow	bull	yoke, team, drove, herd, nye	bovine
Oyster	spat			bed, hive, cast, culch	ostracine	meat
Panther	cub	pantheress			pantherine
Partridge	chick, cheeper	hen, chantelle	cock	covey	perdicine
Peafowl	chick, peachick	peahen	peacock	party, muster, ostentation, pride	pavonine	poultry
Pelican	chick, nestling			scoop, pod^[6]
Pig^{[note 13]}	piglet, shoat/shote (a young, just weaned pig) gilt (female)	sow	boar	herd, drove,sounder, mob, drift	porcine, suilline	pork, ham, bacon
Pigeon	squab	hen	cock	flight, loft, flock, kit	pullastrine	squab
Pony	foal (either sex), colt (young, immature male), filly (young, immature female)	mare	stallion	herd, marmalade, string	equine
Porcupine	pup, porcupet	sow	boar	prickle	hystricine
Quelea	chick	hen	cock	flock, swarm	queline
Rabbit	bunny, kit, kitten, nestling	doe, jill	buck, jack	warren, nest, colony, bevy, bury, drove, trace	leporine
Raccoon	cub, kit	sow	boar	nursery, gaze	procyonine
Rail	chick	reeve	ruff		ralline
Ram	lamb	ewe	ram	flock	arietine, ovine	lamb and mutton
Rat	kitten, nestling, pinkie, pup^[5]	doe	buck	colony, horde, mischief, pack, plague, swarm	murine
Raven				unkindness [1], congress, conspiracy, parliament, murder, crime^{[citation needed]}	corvine
Red deer	calf	hind	stag	herd		venison
Red panda	cub	sow	boar	pack	ailuirine
Reindeer (caribou)	calf	cow	bull	herd	rangiferine
Rhinoceros	calf	cow	bull	crash, herd	ceratorhine
Salamander	tadpole, salamanderling	sow	boar	maelstrom, band	caudatan
Sea lion	pup, beach weaner, calf	cow	bull	pod, colony, crash, flock, harem, bob, herd, rookery, team, hurdle	otarine
Seal	pup^[5]	cow	bull	pod, rookery, bob, herd, harem	phocine
Seahorse	seafoal	seamare	seastallion	shoal	hippocampal
Seastar	chick	hen	cock	group, school	asteridan
Shark	cub,^[8] pup^{[citation needed]}			slew, shiver^[11]
Sheep	lamb	ewe	ram^{[note 10]}	drove, mob, flock, herd	ovine	lamb, mutton, hoggett, haggis (visceral meat)
Shrew	shrewlet, baby	sow	boar	colony, race, drove	soricine
Skunk	kit		boar^[3]
Snail	-	n/a	n/a	hood	gastropodian	escargot
Snake	snakelet, hatchling (a newly-hatched snake)	—	—	pit, nest or bed	anguine, elapine, serpentine, viperine, ophidian
Spider	spiderling			cluster, clutter	arachnine, arachnoid
Squid	chick	hen	cock	roundup, audience	tethidine	calamari
Squirrel	pup, kit, kitten	doe	buck	squad, dray, scurry^[11]	sciurine
Swan	cygnet, flapper	pen	cob	flock	cygnine
Tapir	calf	cow	bull	measure, herd	tapirine
Tarsier	infant	doe	buck	herd, plot, harem, troop	tarsiine
Tiger	cub^[8]	tigress	tiger	streak^[11]	tigrine
Toad	tadpole, toadlet	—	—	knot, lump	ranine, batrachian
Turkey	poult	hen	tom, gobbler, stag, jake (immature)	cream, rafter
Turtle	hatchling	—	—	bale, dule	chelonian
Vicuña	calf	cow, señorita	bull, señor	posse, herd	cameline
Walrus	calf	cow	bull	herd, flock	odobenine
Wasp	larva	queen, worker	drone	swarm, hive	vespine
Water buffalo	calf	cow	bull	pot		carabeef
Weasel	pup	bitch, doe, jill	buck, dog, hub, jack	sneak, gang^[19]	musteline
Whale	calf^[9]	cow^[10]	bull	gam, pod, herd, school	cetacean, cetaceous
Wolf	cub, pup^[5], whelp	bitch, she-wolf	dog	pack	lupine
Worm	wormlet			bed, bunch, clew, squirm	helminthic, vermian
Yak	calf	cow	bull	herd, cabinet
Zebra	foal	mare	stallion	dazzle^{[citation needed]}, herd	zebrine, hippotigrine

Notes

^ Also used as a generic term for a canine of unspecified sex.
^ The term "flange" was originally used to denote a group of baboons in a Not the Nine O'Clock News comedy sketch entitled "Gerald the Intelligent Gorilla" where it was used for comic effect. It has since been used in the scientific literature for a collection of baboons.
^ A worker bee is a sexually undeveloped female.
^ A castrated male cat is a gib or neuter.
^ Castrated male cattle are steers in the United States, or bullocks in the United Kingdom. A young cow that has not given birth is a heifer. See Cattle for more names. Cows is often used informally to refer to cattle in general.
^ Bovine refers to all species of genus Bos.
^ A castrated male chicken is a capon.
^ ^a ^b ^c A group of geese, herons, or ducks in flight is a skein.
^ A castrated male ferret is a gib.^{[citation needed]}
^ ^a ^b A castrated male sheep or goat is a wether. See sheep for more names.
^ a "kettle" or "boil" is a group of hawks swirling and cris-crossing in a thermal air current, see "A Kettle of Hawks"
^ A castrated male horse is a gelding. A male foal is a colt, and a female foal is a filly.
^ A young female pig that has not given birth is a gilt. A castrated male pig is a barrow.^{[citation needed]}

References

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^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Dictionary.com Animal Names".
^ "Merriam Webster Dictionary".
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Pup"
^ ^a ^b "Animal group names". SanDiegoZoo.org. Zoological Society of San Diego.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m Deer of the world: their evolution, behaviour, and ecology By Valerius Geist, 1998, ISBN 0811704963
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Cub"
^ ^a ^b ^c "Calf"
^ ^a ^b ^c "Cow"
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Universe in Your Pocket by Joel Levy, published by Barnes & Noble, Inc.
^ Gray, p. 594
^ "Animal group names". fao.org. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
^ ^a ^b "Bull"
^ Caithness CWS - Caithness Field Club - Annual Bulletins - 2002 - Early Flying In The North Of Scotland
^ King, Alanna, ed. (1987). Robert Louis Stevenson in the South Seas. London: Luzac Paragon House.
^ International Wildlife Encyclopedia By Robert Burton, 2002, vol. 8, ISBN 0761472665, p. 1322
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