Transwiki: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.

Alligators - bellow, hiss Asses - bray Badgers - growl Basenji dogs - yodel Bears - growl: Grrr Bees - hum and buzz Beetles - drone Birds - chirrup, chirp, tweet, and sing: Bird song Bitterns - boom Blackbirds - whistle Bulls - bellow Calves - bleat Cats - mew, purr, meow and hiss, yowl, spit Cattle - moo Chaffinches - fink Chicks - cheep Chickens - cluck Cicadas - sing Cocks - crow Cows - moo Coyotes - yelp, cry Crows - caw Cuckoos - cuckoo Dingos - bark, cry Dodos - squawk, cry Dogs - bark, woof, ruff Dolphins - click Donkeys - bray, hee-haw Doves - coo Ducks - quack

Eagles - scream, cry Elephants - trumpet Falcons - chant Ferrets - dook Flies - buzz Foxes - bark or yelp or simper Frogs - croak, ribbit 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") Hamsters - squeak Hares - squeak Hawks - scream Hens - cluck Hippopotamuses - bellow, rumble, roar, growl Humans - talk Horses - neigh, whinny Hyenas - laugh Jackals - howl Jays - chatter Koalas - scream, bellow, wail Komodo dragons - growl, snarl, hiss Lambs - bleat Linnets - chuckle Lions - roar Llamas - growl Magpies - chatter Mice - squeak and squeal Monkeys - gibber, chatter Moose - bellow Mosquitoes - whine

Nightingales - pipe and warble Okapis - cough, bellow Ostriches - bleep bleep Owls - screech, shriek, and hoot Oxen - low Parrots - talk Peacocks - scream Penguins - honk Pigs - oink, snort, grunt, and call Pigeons - coo Porpoises - whistle, click Prairie dogs - bark Queleas - twitter, whistle, chirp, shriek, and squawk Rabbits - squeak, drum Raccoons - chitter Rats - squeak Ravens - croak Rhinos - Bellow Rooks - caw Rooster - cock-a'doodle-doo Seals - bark Sharks - hom hom Sheep - bleat, baa Snakes - hiss Sparrows - chirp Squirrels - squeak Stags - bellow Swallows - twit and squeal Swans - cry Tigers - growl Thrushes - whistle Tokay Geckos - to-keh! Turkeys - gobble Vultures - scream Walruses - groan Whales - sing: Whale song. Wolves - howl, cry Zebras - neigh, whinny

See also

• Appendix:Animals
• bioacoustics
• zoomusicology

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