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

PictureAnimalDescriptionSound
framelessAlligatorbellow, hissfile:27alligator2bellow.ogg|thumb|Alligator bellow
framelessAlpacaalarm call, cluck/click, hum, orgle, scream
framelessAntelopesnort
framelessBadgergrowlfile:European Badger .ogg|thumb|Badger
framelessBatscreech, squeak, eekfile:Yannick Dauby - Bats echolocation.ogg|thumb|Bats
framelessBearroar, growlfile:Bear growl.ogg|thumb|Bear cub growl
framelessBeebuzzfile:Hummel bee.ogg|thumb|Hummel bee file:BumbleBee1.ogg|thumb|Xylocopa pubescens offsprings
framelessBig cat roar, growl, snarlfile:439280 schots angry-tiger.wav|thumb|Tiger growl file:Jaguar saw.flac|thumb|Jaguar making a content "sawing" sound.
framelessCamelgrunt
file:Capybara Eating Hay 11 11 2018.jpg|alt=Image of a capybara eating hay|framelessCapybarasqueak, chatter, bark
framelessCatmew, meow, purr, hiss, trill, chirp, chatter, caterwaul, growlfile:Meow.ogg|thumb|Cat meow file:Jupey purring.wav|thumb|Domestic cat purring
frameless Cattlemoo, lowfile:Mudchute cow 1.ogg|thumb|
framelessChickencluck, buck, crow
cha-caw, bah-gawk
cock-a-doodle-doo
thumb thumb file:Medium rooster crowing.ogg|thumb|Rooster crowing
framelessChinchillasqueak
framelessCicadachirpfile:Chorus Cicada singing.ogg|thumb|Cicada
framelessCrabchirp, click, creak
framelessCraneclangfile:Grus grus hunneberget.ogg|thumb|
framelessCricketchirpfile:Field cricket unedited.ogg|thumb|Cricket
framelessCrowcaw, cahfile:Black Crow .ogg|thumb|Black Crow
Crocodilehiss, growl
framelessCurlewpipefile:Eurasian Curlew .ogg|thumb|
framelessDeerbellow, bell, bleat file:Red Deer .ogg|thumb|Red deer
framelessDogarf, bark, boof, bay, howl, growl, snarl, moan, whine, whimper, yelp, scream, sigh, sneeze, woof, yip, yapfile:Barking of a dog.ogg|thumb|Dog bark
framelessDolphinclick, whistle, squeal
framelessDonkeyhee-haw, brayfile:Домашний Осёл, Киприотский.ogg|thumb|Domestic donkey brays
framelessDuckquackfile:Mallard .ogg|thumb|Mallard Duck
framelessEaglescreechfile:Bald Eagle Yellowstone National Park.ogg|thumb|Bald Eagle
framelessElephanttrumpet, snort, rumble, growl, roarfile:Elephant voice - trumpeting.ogg|thumb|Elephant trumpet
framelessElkbugle, bleat file:Elkbellow.ogg|thumb|Elk bellow
framelessFerretdook
framelessFlybuzz
frameless Foxbark, scream, howl, snore, gecker
framelessFrogcroak, ribbit, chirpfile:Single Frog Croak.oga|thumb|Pacific tree frog
framelessGaurlow, moofile:Mudchute cow 1.ogg|thumb|
framelessGiraffebleat, humfile:Giraffehum3.oga|thumb|Giraffe hum
framelessGoatbleat, maafile:Herd of goats bleating.ogg|thumb|Herd of goats bleating
framelessGoosehonk, hissfile:Geese Honking.ogg|thumb|Geese Honking
framelessGrasshopperchirpfile:Grasshoppers.ogg|thumb|Grasshoppers chirping
framelessGuinea pigwheekfile:Guinea Pig Happy.ogg|thumb|
framelessHamstersqueak
framelessHawkscreechfile:Screaming_Hawk.wav|220x124px|thumb|right|Hawk screeching
framelessHermit crabchirp
framelessHippopotamusgrowl, grunt, snort
framelessHornetbuzzfile:Hummel bee.ogg|thumb|Hummel bee
framelessHorseneigh, whinny, nicker, hoofbeats file:Wiehern.ogg|thumb|
framelessHyenalaughfile:Giggling call of a spotted hyena - 1472-6785-10-9-S4.oga|thumb|Spotted Hyena
framelessJackalgecker
framelessKoalabellow, shriek
Laughing kookaburralaugh
framelessLemurchatter, whoop
framelessLeopardroar, growl, snarl
framelessLinnetchuckle
Lionroar, growl, snarlfile:Lion raring-sound1TamilNadu178.ogg|thumb|Lion roar
Lizardhiss
framelessLocustchirp
framelessMagpiechatter
Meerkatbark
framelessMonkeyscream, chatter, gecker, howlfile:Mantled Howler Monkey .ogg|thumb|Mantled Howler Monkey
framelessMoosebellow
framelessMosquitobuzz, whine
framelessMousesqueak
framelessOkapicough, bellow
framelessOwlhoot, hiss, caterwaul for barred owls, twit twoo for tawny owls
framelessOxlow, moofile:Mudchute cow 1.ogg|thumb|
framelessParrotsquawk, talk
file:Talking Parrot.ogg|thumb|Rose-ringed Parakeet imitating human speech
framelessPeacockscream, squawk, honkfile:Indian Peafowl.ogg|thumb|Peacock
framelessPenguinchirp, honk, trumpet, bray
frameless Pigoink, snort, squeal, gruntfile:Mudchute pig 1.ogg|thumb|Pig
framelessPigeoncoofile:Wood pigeon call 128.ogg|thumb|Wood pigeon
framelessPrairie dogbark
framelessQuailcallfile:Common Quail .ogg|thumb|Call of a male common quail
framelessRabbitsqueakfile:Lautäußerung Kaninchen.flac|thumb|Rabbit
framelessRaccoontrillfile:Baby Raccoon Chatter 1.flac|thumb|Baby Raccoon Chatter
framelessRatsqueak
framelessRavencaw, cronkfile:Common Raven .ogg|thumb|Common Raven
framelessRiver otterblow, chatter, chirp, creek, grunt, hiccup, hiss, scream, squeak, swish, whine, whistle, chatterchirp, purr
framelessRookcaw
framelessSealbark
framelessSheepbleat, baa, maa, meh file:Sheep bleating.ogg|thumb|Sheep
framelessSnakehiss, rattlefile:Rattlesnake.ogg|thumb|Rattlesnake
framelessSongbirdchirrup, chirp, tweet, sing,
warble, twitter
file:30goldfinch.ogg|thumb|Goldfinch
framelessSquirrelsqueak
framelessSwancry, trumpet, buglefile:Cygnus buccinator - Trumpeter Swan - XC96531.ogg|thumb|Trumpeter swan
framelessTapirsqueak
framelessTokay geckocroakfile:Mating_call_of_a_male_Tokay_gecko_.ogg|220x124px|thumb|right|Tokay gecko mating call
framelessTurkeygobblefile:Meleagris gallopavo - Wild Turkey XC136045.ogg|thumb|Wild Turkey
Turtlehiss, thurek, tulp
framelessWhalesingfile:Humpback-Whale-Song-and-Foraging-Behavior-on-an-Antarctic-Feeding-Ground-pone.0051214.s001.oga|220x124px|thumb|Humpback whale
framelessWild boargrowl, grumblefile:Boar.Grwls.ogg|thumb|Wild boar
framelessWildebeestlow, moo
framelessWolfhowl, growl, bayfile:Wolf howls.ogg|thumb|Wolf howls
framelessZebrabray, bark, whistle, yip, nicker