List of animal sounds
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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.
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· List of animal sounds
| Picture | Animal | Description | Audio recording |
| | Alligator | bellow, hiss | Alligator bellow |
| | Alpaca | alarm call, cluck/click, hum, orgle, scream | |
| | Antelope | snort | |
| | Badger | growl | Badger |
| | Bat | screech, 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, growl, snarl | Tiger growl Jaguar making a content "sawing" sound. |
| | Bison | bellow, moo, low | |
| | Camel | grunt | |
| | Capybara | squeak, chatter, bark | |
| | Cat | mew, meow, purr, hiss, trill, chirp, chatter, caterwaul, growl, mrrp, nya | Cat meow Domestic cat purring |
| | Cattle | moo, low | |
| | Chicken | cluck, buck, crow cha-caw, bah-gawk (female) cock-a-doodle-doo (male) | Rooster crowing |
| | Chinchilla | squeak | |
| | Cicada | chirp | Cicada |
| | Crab | chirp, click, creak | |
| | Crane | trumpet, bugle | |
| | Cricket | chirp | Cricket |
| | Crow | caw, cah | Black Crow |
| | Crocodile | hiss, growl | |
| | Curlew | pipe | |
| | 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, whistle, squeal | Dolphins calling |
| | Donkey | hee-haw, bray | Domestic donkey brays |
| | Duck | quack | Mallard Duck |
| | Eagle | screech | Bald Eagle |
| | Elephant | trumpet, snort, rumble, growl, roar | Elephant trumpet |
| | Elk | bugle (male), bleat (calves) | Elk bellow |
| | Ferret | dook | |
| | Fish | brrp, click, blub, glub, honk | |
| | Fly | buzz | |
| | Fox | bark, scream, howl, snore, gecker | Fox scream |
| | Frog | croak, ribbit, chirp | Pacific tree frog |
| | Gaur | low, moo | |
| | Giraffe | bleat, hum | Giraffe hum |
| | Goat | bleat, maa | Herd of goats bleating |
| | Goose | honk, hiss | Geese Honking |
| | Grasshopper | chirp | Grasshoppers chirping |
| | Guinea pig | wheek | |
| | Hamster | squeak | |
| | Hawk | screech | Hawk screeching |
| | Hermit crab | chirp | |
| | Hippopotamus | growl, grunt, snort | |
| | Hornet | buzz | Hummel bee |
| | Horse | neigh, whinny, nicker, hoofbeats (clip-clop) | |
| | Hyena | laugh | Spotted Hyena |
| | Jackal | gecker |
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