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This is a list of animal sounds in the English language. Most of these words can be used as either noun or verb. Amajority of them are onomatopoeia.

Alligators – hiss, grunt, roar, ugh-ugh

Antelope – snort

Badgers – growl

Bats – screech

Bears – growl, groan, moan, roar

Bees – hum, buzz

Beetles – drone, click

Birds – chirrup, chirp, twitter, tweet, sing,whistle

Bitterns – boom

Blackbirds – whistle

Bonobos – chirp, squeal, screech, shriek,squeak, hoot

Calves – bleat

Camels – grunt

Capuchins – chirp, chatter, trill

Cats – mew, purr, meow, miaow, hiss, yowl,

caterwaulChaffinch – ow

Chickens – cluck, cackle, bock, chirp, crow,

screech, peep, cockadoodledoo

Chimpanzees – pant-hoot, grunt, scream,

chatter, screech, barkChinchillas – squeak

Cicadas – chirp

Cows – moo, low, bawl (calf), bellow

Coyotes – yelp, cry, snarl

Crickets – chirp, creak

Crows – caw, cah

Cuckoos – coo, cuckoo

Curlews – pipeDeer – bell

Dingos – bark, cry

Dogs – bark, woof, arf, bay, bow-wow, howl,

yap

Dolphins – click

Donkeys – bray, hee-haw

Doves – coo-coo

Jackals – gecker, howl

Jays – chatter, screech

Kangaroos – chortle

Koalas – scream, bellow, wail

Komodo dragons – growl, snarl, hiss

Lambs – bleat, baa

Larks – sing, warble

Linnets – chuckleLions – roar, growl

Llamas – maw

Magpies – chatter

Mice – squeak and squealMonkeys – chatter, gecker, gibber, whoop,

screech

Moose – bellow

Mosquitoes – whine

Narwhals – squeal

Nightingales – pipe, sing, warbleOkapis – cough, bellow

Orangutans Groan, grunt, smooch, wheeze,

chirp, squeal, sputter

Ostriches – chirp, bark, hiss, low hum

Owls – hoot, scream, screech, shriekOxen – bellow, low

Parrots – mimic a variety of sounds, screech,

squawk

Peacocks – scream

Peafowls – scream

Pigs – snort, grunt, squeal, oink

Pigeons – coo

Porpoises – whistle, clickPrairie dogs – bark

Puffins – chirp

Queleas – chatter

Rabbits – squeak, drum, growl (when

cornered)

Raccoons – trill

Rats – squeak, eek, brux

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Ducks – quack

Eagles – scream

Elephants – trumpet, roar, moan, rumble

Emus – drum

Falcons – chant

Ferrets – dookFlies – buzz, hum

Foxes – bark, yelp, simper

Frogs – croak, ribbit, gribbit

Geese – cackle, gobble, hiss, honk, quack

Gibbons – whoop, chirp, screech, wail

Giraffes – bleat

Goats – bleat, baa

Gorillas – hoot, bark, grunt, whine, pock, pant

Grasshoppers – chirp

Guinea pigs – squeak

Hamsters – squeakHares – squeak

Hens – cackle, cluckHermit crabs- chirp

Hippopotamuses – bellow, rumble, roar, growlHogs – grunt, snortHorses – neigh, snort, whinny, nicker, sputter

Humans – whisper, hum, whistle, cry, scream,sing, talk, moan, laugh, sputter, mimic other

animals, cooHummingbirds – hum, twitter

Hyenas – laugh, scream, whoop

Ravens – croak

Rhinoceros – bellow

Robins – chirp

Rooks – caw

Roosters – crow

Seagulls – scream, squawkSeals – bark

Sheep – bleat, baa

Snakes – hiss

Sparrows – chirp, twitter

Squirrels – squeak, chatter, click

Stags – bellow

Swallows – twitter, squeal

Swans – cry

Tapirs – whistle, squeak

Tigers – growl, roar, snarl

Thrushes – whistle, singTokay Geckos – croak

Turkeys – gobbleVervets – chirp, chatter, grunt, bark, coo,

sputterVultures – screamWalruses – groan

Whales – singWolves – howl, cry, yell

Wrens – trill, warbleZebras – whinny, whoop

See also

Animal communicationAnimal echolocation

AnimalBioacoustics

Cat communicationZoomusicology

Old McDonald Had a Farm, each verse of the song changes the name of the animal and its respective noise

External links

List of animal sounds to download, listen and use for free. (http://www.animal-sounds.org)

Multilingual list of animal sounds (http://www.eleceng.adelaide.edu.au/Personal/dabbott/animal.html) DerekAbbott, University of Adelaide

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Bzzzpeek – Collection of animal onomatopoeia from around the world (http://www.bzzzpeek.com) (Flash

required)Multilingual recording of animal sounds – dog, rooster & donkey (http://www.lexiophiles.com/english/old-

macdonald-had-a-farm)Library of animal Sounds. (http://www.free-sound-fx.net/index.php/animal-sounds)

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