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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.
Below is a list of appropriate English verbs corresponding to the sounds made by various animals.
- Apes- gibber
- Bear- growl: Grrr
- Bees -hum and buzz
- Beetles- drone
- Birds- chirrup, chirp, tweet, and sing: Bird song
- Bitterns- boom
- Blackbirds- whistle
- Bulls- bellow
- Calves bleat
- Cats- mew, purr, meow and caterwaul, Kittens mewl
- Cattle low
- Chaffinches fink
- Chicks- cheep
- Chickens -cluck
- Cicadas- sing
- Cocks- crow
- Cows -moo
- Crows -caw
- Cuckoos -cuckoo
- Deer -bell
- Dogs -bark, bay, growl, howl, whine, yip, and yap
- Dolphins -click
- Donkeys -bray
- Doves- coo
- Ducks -quack
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- Eagles -scream
- Elephants- trumpet
- Falcons -chant
- Ferrets -dook
- Flies- buzz
- Foxes- bark and yelp
- Frogs -croak
- Giant pandas bleat
- Giraffes -bleat
- Goats- bleat
- Geese- cackle and hiss or honk or quack
- Grasshoppers -chirp: Stridulation
- Guinea pigs -squeak (many guinea pig owners dub this noise as a "wheek")
- Hares -squeak
- Hawks- scream
- Hens -cluck
- Horses -neigh or whinny
- Humans -talk, laugh, scream, sing, whisper, moan, grunt, cry, hum, squeal, chant, whinney, and rap
- Hyenas -laugh
- Jays -chatter
- Lambs- bleat
- Linnets -chuckle
- Lions -roar
- Magpies -chatter
- Mice -squeak and squeal
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