List of animal sounds

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,roar Apes - gibber Asses - bray Badgers - growl Basenji dogs - yodel Bats - screech Bears - growl Bees - hum and buzz Beetles - drone Birds - chirrup, chirp, twitter, tweet, sing: Bird song, whistle Bitterns - boom Blackbirds - whistle Calves - bleat Camels - grunt Cats - mew, purr, meow, hiss, yowl Cattle - moo, low, bawl (calf), bellow (bull) Chaffinches 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 Doves - coo Ducks - quack Eagles - scream, cry Elephants - trumpet Emus Falcons - chant Ferrets - dook Flies - buzz, hum Foxes - bark, yelp, simper Frogs - croak, Giraffes - bleat Goats - bleat, Geese - cackle, goble, hiss, honk, quack Grasshoppers - chirp Guinea pigs - squeak Hamsters - squeak Hares - squeak Hens - cackle, cluck Hippopotamuses - bellow, rumble, roar, growl Humans - cry, scream, sing, talk Hogs - grunt Horses - neigh, snort, whinny, nicker Hyenas - laugh, scream Jackals - howl Jays - chatter Kangaroos - 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 Narwhal- squeal Nightingales - pipe, sing, warble Okapis - cough, bellow Ostriches - chirp Owls - hoot, scream, screech, shriek Oxen - bellow, low Parrots - talk, screech, squawk Peacocks - scream Peafowls - scream Pigs - snort, grunt, squeal, oink Pigeons - coo Porpoises - whistle, click Prairie dogs - bark Puffins - moo Queleas - chatter Rabbits - squeak, drum Raccoons - chitter Rats - squeak Ravens - croak Rhinoceros - bellow Robins - chirp Rooks - caw Rooster - crow Seagulls - scream Seals - bark Sheep - bleat Snakes - hiss Sparrows - chirp, twitter Squirrels - squeak Stags - bellow Swallows - twitter, squeal Swans - cry Tigers - growl, roar Thrushes - whistle, sing Tokay Geckos Turkeys - gobble Vultures - scream Walruses - groan

List of animal sounds

Whales - sing Wolves - howl, cry, yell Wrens - warble Zebras - whinny

External links
List of animal sounds to download, listen and use for free. [1] Multilingual list of animal sounds [2] Bzzzpeek Collection of animal onomatopoeia from around the world [3] (Flash required) Multilingual recording of animal sounds - dog, rooster & donkey [4]

References
[1] [2] [3] [4] http:/ / www. animal-sounds. org http:/ / www. eleceng. adelaide. edu. au/ Personal/ dabbott/ animal. html http:/ / www. bzzzpeek. com http:/ / www. lexiophiles. com/ english/ old-macdonald-had-a-farm

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