# List of animal sounds

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

| Animal | Description | Sound |
| 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, Cheetah) | roar, growl, snarl | Tiger growl Jaguar making a content "sawing" sound. |
| Camel | grunt | |
| Capybara | squeak, chatter, bark | |
| Cat | mew, meow, purr, hiss, trill, caterwaul, growl | 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 | clang | |
| Cricket | chirp | Cricket |
| Crow | caw, cah | Black Crow |
| 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 | |
| Donkey | hee-haw, bray | Domestic donkey brays |
| Duck | quack | Mallard Duck |
| Eagle | screech | Bald Eagle |
| Elephant | trumpet | Elephant trumpet |
| Elk | bugle (male), bleat (calves) | Elk bellow |
| Ferret | dook | |
| Fly | buzz | |
| Fox | bark, scream, howl, snore, gecker | |
| Frog | croak, ribbit | 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 | |
| Hornet | buzz | Hummel bee |
| Horse | neigh, whinny, nicker, hoofbeats (clip-clop) | |
| Hyena | laugh | Spotted Hyena |
| Jackal | gecker | |
| Koala | bellow, shriek | |
| Laughing kookaburra | laugh | |
| Lemur | chatter, whoop | |
| Leopard | roar, growl, snarl | |
| Linnet | chuckle | |
| Lion | roar, growl, snarl | Lion roar |
| Lizard | hiss | |
| Locust | chirp | |
| Magpie | chatter | Magpie |
| Monkey | scream, chatter, gecker, howl | Mantled Howler Monkey (Alouatta palliata) |
| Moose | bellow | |
| Mosquito | buzz, whine | |
| Mouse | squeak | |
| Okapi | cough, bellow | |
| Owl | hoot, hiss, caterwaul for barred owls, twit twoo for tawny owls | Great horned owl |
| Ox | low, moo | |
| Parrot | squawk, talk | White-capped Parrot Rose-ringed Parakeet imitating human speech |
| Peacock | scream, squawk, honk | Peacock |
| Penguin | chirp, honk, trumpet, bray | |
| Pig | oink, snort, squeal, grunt | Pig |
| Pigeon | coo | Wood pigeon |
| Prairie dog | bark | |
| Quail | call | Call of a male common quail |
| Rabbit | squeak | Rabbit |
| Raccoon | trill | 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, purr | |
| Rook | caw | |
| Seal | bark | |
| Sheep | bleat, baa, maa, meh (lambs) | Sheep |
| Snake | hiss, rattle | Rattlesnake |
| Songbird | chirrup, chirp, tweet, sing, warble (larks / warblers / wrens), twitter (sparrows) | Goldfinch |
| Squirrel | squeak | |
| Swan | cry, trumpet, bugle | Trumpeter swan |
| Tapir | squeak | |
| Tokay gecko | croak | 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 | |