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	Alligator bellow
	Alpaca	alarm call, cluck/click, hum, orgle, scream[1]
	Antelope	snort[2]
	Badger	growl[3]	Badger
	Bat	screech,[4] squeak, eek	Bats
	Bear	roar, growl	Bear cub growl
	Bee	buzz	Hummel bee Xylocopa pubescens (carpenter bee) offsprings
	Big cat (Tiger, Lion, Jaguar, Leopard, Cheetah)	roar,[5] growl,[6] snarl[7]	Tiger growl Jaguar making a content "sawing" sound.
	Camel	grunt
	Capybara	squeak,[8] chatter, bark
	Cat	mew, meow, purr, hiss, trill, caterwaul, growl	Cat meow Domestic cat purring
	Cattle	moo, low
	Chicken	cluck, buck, crow[9] cha-caw, bah-gawk (female)[10] cock-a-doodle-doo (male)	Rooster crowing
	Chinchilla	squeak[11]
	Cicada	chirp[12]	Cicada
	Crab	chirp, click, creak[13][better source needed]
	Crane	clang
	Cricket	chirp	Cricket
	Crow	caw, cah[14]	Black Crow
	Curlew	pipe[15]
	Deer	bellow, bell (buck), bleat (doe, fawn)	Red deer
	Dog	arf, bark, boof, bay, howl, growl, snarl, moan, whine, whimper, yelp, scream, sigh, sneeze, woof, yip, yap	Dog bark
	Dolphin	click,[16] whistle[17]
	Donkey	hee-haw,[18] bray	Domestic donkey brays
	Duck	quack	Mallard Duck
	Eagle	screech[19]	Bald Eagle
	Elephant	trumpet	Elephant trumpet
	Elk	bugle (male),[20] bleat (calves)[21]	Elk bellow
	Ferret	dook[22]
	Fly	buzz[23]
	Fox	bark, scream, howl, snore, gecker[24]
	Frog	croak, ribbit	Pacific tree frog
	Gaur	low, moo
	Giraffe	bleat,[25] hum[26]	Giraffe hum
	Goat	bleat, maa	Herd of goats bleating
	Goose	honk, hiss	Geese Honking
	Grasshopper	chirp[27]	Grasshoppers chirping
	Guinea pig	wheek[28]
	Hamster	squeak[29]
	Hawk	screech	Hawk screeching
	Hermit crab	chirp[30]
	Hippopotamus	growl[31]
	Hornet	buzz	Hummel bee
	Horse	neigh, whinny, nicker, hoofbeats (clip-clop)
	Hyena	laugh	Spotted Hyena
	Jackal	gecker[6]
	Koala	bellow, shriek
	Laughing kookaburra	laugh
	Lemur	chatter, whoop
	Leopard	roar, growl, snarl
	Linnet	chuckle[32]
	Lion	roar, growl, snarl	Lion roar
	Lizard	hiss
	Locust	chirp[27]
	Magpie	chatter[33]	Magpie
	Monkey	scream, chatter, gecker,[6] howl	Mantled Howler Monkey (Alouatta palliata)
	Moose	bellow[34]
	Mosquito	buzz, whine
	Mouse	squeak
	Okapi	cough, bellow[35]
	Owl	hoot, hiss, caterwaul for barred owls, twit twoo for tawny owls [36]	Great horned owl
	Ox	low, moo
	Parrot	squawk, talk	White-capped Parrot Rose-ringed Parakeet imitating human speech
	Peacock	scream,[37] squawk, honk	Peacock
	Penguin	chirp, honk, trumpet, bray
	Pig	oink,[31][38] snort,[39] squeal, grunt	Pig
	Pigeon	coo	Wood pigeon
	Prairie dog	bark[40]
	Quail	call	Call of a male common quail
	Rabbit	squeak	Rabbit
	Raccoon	trill[41]	Baby Raccoon Chatter
	Rat	squeak
	Raven	caw, cronk	Common Raven
	River otter	blow, chatter, chirp, creek, grunt, hiccup, hiss, scream, squeak, swish, whine, whistle, chatterchirp,[42][43] purr[44]
	Rook	caw
	Seal	bark[45]
	Sheep	bleat, baa, maa, meh (lambs)	Sheep
	Snake	hiss, rattle	Rattlesnake
	Songbird	chirrup, chirp, tweet, sing, warble (larks / warblers / wrens),[46][47] twitter (sparrows)[48]	Goldfinch
	Squirrel	squeak
	Swan	cry, trumpet, bugle	Trumpeter swan
	Tapir	squeak[49]
	Tokay gecko	croak[50]	Tokay gecko mating call
	Turkey	gobble	Wild Turkey
	Whale	sing	Humpback whale
	Wild boar	growl, grumble	Wild boar
	Wildebeest	low, moo
	Wolf	howl, growl, bay	Wolf howls
	Zebra	bray, bark, whistle, yip, nicker

See also

• Animal communication
• Animal epithet
• Animal language
• Bioacoustics
• Cat organ & piganino
• Cross-linguistic onomatopoeias
• Field recording
• List of animal names
• List of onomatopoeias
• "Old MacDonald Had a Farm"
• "The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?)"