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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

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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) 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
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]
  Fish glub
  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
  Kangaroo jump
  Laughing kookaburra laugh
  Lemur chatter, whoop
  Leopard roar, growl, snarl
  Linnet chuckle[32]
  Lion roar, growl, snarl
Lion roar
  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] purr[43]
  Rook caw
  Seal bark[44]
  Sheep bleat, baa, maa, meh (lambs)
Sheep
  Snake hiss, rattle
Rattlesnake
  Songbird chirrup, chirp, tweet, sing,
warble (larks / warblers / wrens),[45][46] twitter (sparrows)[47]
Goldfinch
  Squirrel squeak
  Swan cry, trumpet, bugle
Trumpeter swan
  Tapir squeak[48]
  Tokay gecko croak[49]
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

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References

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