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 - hiss, grunt Apes - gibber Asses - bray Badgers - growl Basenji dogs - yodel Bats - screech Bears - growl: Grrr Bees - hum and buzz Beetles - drone Birds - chirrup, chirp, twitter, tweet, sing: Bird song, whistle Bitterns - boom Blackbirds - whistle Bulls - bellow Calves - bleat Camels - grunt Cats - mew, purr, meow and hiss, yowl, spit Cattle - moo, low Chaffinches - fink Chicks - cheep Chickens - cluck Chinchillas - squeak Cicadas - sing Cocks - crow Cows - low, moo Coyotes - yelp, cry Crickets - chirp, creak Crows - caw Cuckoos - coo, cuckoo Curlews - pipe Deers - bell Dingos - bark, cry Dodos - squawk, cry Dogs - bark, woof, arf Dolphins - click Donkeys - bray, ee-haw Doves - coo Ducks - quack

Eagles - scream, cry Elephants - trumpet Emus - queek creek spit Falcons - chant Ferrets - dook Flies - buzz, hum Foxes - bark, yelp or simper Frogs - croak, ribbit Giraffes - bleat Goats - bleat, maa, baa Geese - cackle, goble, hiss, honk, quack Grasshoppers - chirp: Stridulation Guinea pigs - squeak (many guinea pig owners dub this noise as a "wheek"[citation needed]) Hamsters - squeak Hares - squeak Hens - cackle, cluck Hippopotamuses - bellow, rumble, roar, growl Humans - cry, scream, sing, talk Hogs - grunt Horses - clop, neigh, snort, whinny Hyenas - laugh, scream Jackals - howl Jays - chatter Kangaroos - tipper, chortle Koalas - scream, bellow, wail Komodo dragons - growl, snarl, hiss Lambs - bleat Larks - sing, warble Linnets - chuckle Lions - roar, growl Llamas - growl, Magpies - chatter Mice - squeak and squeal Monkeys - chatter, gibber, whoop Moose - bellow Mosquitoes - whine

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

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
• Onomatopoeia

External links

• List of animal sounds to download, 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