List of animal names

Generic terms
This table contains terms generally applicable across some common categories of animals. Animal Bird Bovidae Canidae Equidae Felidae Fish Young chick calf puppy, pup[6] Female hen cow bitch Male cock bull dog jack (asses), stallion (other equids) tom Group flock herd pack herd clowder school, shoal Adjective avian bovine canine equine feline piscine, ichthyic Sex unspecified generic term bird cow, cattle dog horse cat fish

colt (male), filly jenny (asses), mare (female), foal (other equids) kitten, cub fry, fingerling queen

Terms by species or taxon

This section's factual accuracy is disputed. (September 2011) Animal Young Female Male Group Adjective Aardvark cub sow boar orycteropodian [7] [8] flock , rookery , gam (when Albatross chick searching for mates)
[9]

Meat

Alligator Alpaca American Bison (Buffalo) Ant Anteater Antelope

hatchling cria calf larva, pupa pup calf

[13]

cow

bull

congregation[10] herd

eusuchian camelid (see also Llama) bovine, bubaline formic, myrmecine alcelaphine, bubaline, antilopine

cow queen, worker, gyne sow doe

bull drone boar buck

herd army,[11] bike,[11] colony,[11][12] swarm[11] herd,[11] cluster,[11] tribe[11]

Animal Ape Armadillo Ass/Donkey Baboon Badger Barracuda Bat Bear Beaver Bee Bison Boar Buffalo Bush baby Butterfly Camel Caribou Cat

Young infant pup, baby foal infant cub, kit

Female sow jenny sow

Male boar jack

boar

pup cub[18]

Group shrewdness[1][10][11] [14] , troop[10][11] herd,[11] pace,[11][12] band, drove,[10][11] coffle[11] tribe, troop[10][14], flange[note 1] cete [10][14], sett, colony, clan, company school[15] colony, cloud,[16] flock[17]

Adjective simian cingulatan asinine

Meat

musteline percesocine pteropine, noctillionine

Caterpillar Cattle[note 4]

sow, She- boar, Hesleuth, sloth ursine bear bear kit, kitten, pup family,[10] colony[10] castorine[19] colony, drift[14], erst queen, [14] , grist [10], apic, apian, larva, pupa worker drone [10][14] [10] hive , nest , apiarian [note 2] [10][14] swarm herd, troop, gang, calf cow bull see also-Buffalo obstinacy shoat, farrow, piglet singular, sounder[10] herd,[10] troop,[10] calf cow bull gang,[10] obstinancy[10] king, congress, gathering, infant queen galagine drake plot rabble, flight, pieridine, caterpillar, larva, pupa, flutter[10]; swarm, pierine,lepidopter chrysalis army (caterpillars) an flock,[10] herd, calf cow bull camelid, cameline train[10] calf herd clowder[10][14], molly, cluster[10], clutter, [note 3] kitten, kit queen, tom glaring[10][14], feline [10] pussy pounce , kindle (young) army,[10] constituency calf[20] cow[21] bull herd,[10] drift,[3] bovine,[note 5] beef, veal

Animal

Young

Female

Male

Chamois Cheetah Chicken Chimpanzee Chinchilla Clam Cobra Cockroach Cod -see also Fish Cormorant Coyote Crab Crane Crocodile Crow Deer Dinosaur

calf cub chick, peep infant tureturle, kit larva nymph codling, hake, sprag, sprat chick cub, pup, whelp chick, colt[24] hatchling

doe hen, pullet

bull

Adjective vituline (young), drove,[10] mob, kine vaccine (female), (female)[10] taurine (male) herd rupicaprine [22] coalition (male) galline panine chinchilline elapid blattid

Group

Meat

rooster, flock, brood,[10] cock(peep[10] erel)[note 6] empress blackback troop, group, harem velvet, boar, bull herd sow bed quiver[23] intrusion[23] school bitch hen dog cock, jimmy gulp,[23] flight pack, train consortium, cast herd, sedge, siege bask, nest, congregation, float, [10] bask[10] hover, murder [10][14], parcel[3]

poultry

canine cancrine alectorine crocodilian corvine venison, humble (organ meat)

cow

bull

calf,[13] fawn hatchling, juvenile

Dog

whelp, pup,[6] puppy

buck, doe, stag, bull, bunch,[25] herd,[25] hind, cervine, elaphine [13] hart mob,[25] rangale[25] [13] cow (red deer) herd (herbivores), cow bull pack (carnivores) pack,[25] litter (young), kennel,[25] bitch, dog, stud, gang, legion, group canine dam sire of hounds (cry, mute)

Dogfish

troop[25]

capeshark (USA), rock salmon (UK), flake (UK, AUS),

Animal

Young

Female

Male

Group

Adjective

Meat huss (UK), rigg (UK), kahada (CAN)[26]

Dolphin Donkey Dove

calf, pup See Ass chick, squal

cow

bull

team, school, pod, herd, team,[3] alliance (male), party (female) arc[10], cote, dole[14] [25] , dule[10][25], flight[10][14][25], piteousness[14][25], pitying[10] cluster, flight

delphine

hen

cock king, drake

columbine

Dragonfly

nymph

queen

anisopteran

Duck -see also Mallard

duckling

duck, hen

drake

Dugong Eagle Echidna Eel Eland Elephant Elephant seal Elk (wapiti) Emu Falcon Ferret

calf eaglet, fledgling puggle leptocephalus (larva), elver (juvenile) calf calf[20] calf calf[13] chick, hatchling eyass/eyas kit

cow sow cow cow[21] cow cow[13]

bull boar bull bull[27] bull bull[13] tiercel, tercel, terzel hob[note 7]

On land - flock, herd, badelynge, brace[12], safe[14], sord[25], sore[25], waddling[25] anatine, fuliguline On water - bunch[14] [25] , paddling[14][25], raft[14][25] In flight - skein[25], string[25], team[25] herd dugongine convocation, brood, aquiline aerie tachyglossine swarm, cell, pipe, array herd Proboscine, herd, flock, parade Proboscidean herd, pack, miroungan arrangement gang, herd cervine mob cast, busyness,[1] business, fesny(i)ng, acciptrine musteline

poultry

venison

falcon jill

Animal Finch Fish Fly Fox

Young chick fry, fingerling maggot cub,[18] kit, pup[6]

Female hen

Male cock

Group fesynes quiver draft, run, school, shaol swarm, cloud, business

Adjective fringilline piscine dipterous

Meat

tod, dog, leash[10][12], skulk[10] dog fox, vulpine [12] reynard army, Frog polliwog, tadpole, froglet colony,bundle,fester ranine , knot Gaur calf cow bull herd bovine, gaurine [13] [13] [13] Gazelle calf cow bull herd gazelline Gerbil pup doe buck horde cricetine Giant Panda cub sow boar Giraffe calf cow bull, sire herd, corps, tower[28] giraffine Gnat larva cloud, horde Gnu calf cow bull herd nanny, billy, herd, mob, tribe, Goat kid doe, buck,[note 8] caprine, hircine trip doeling buckling On ground - flock, gaggle Goose gosling goose gander anatine, anserine In flight - skein[14], team[14], wedge[14] Gopher -see Prairie Dog blackback Gorilla infant , troop, group (band) simian silverback Grasshopper nymph swarm Grouse covey Guanaco chulengo camelid [29] Guinea fowl chick hen cock flock numidine Guinea pig pup sow boar herd [30] Gull chick, scorrie hen cock flock larine Hamster pup doe buck horde cricetid band, down, warren, Hare leveret doe, jill buck, jack leverine, leporine husk accipitrine, Hawk eyas hen tiercel cast, kettle, boil[note 9] falconine vixen

garabeef

chevon, cabrito, mutton poultry

poultry cui

Animal Hedgehog Heron Hippopotamu s Hornet Horse[note 10]

Young hoglet, piglet, pup chick calf larvae, pupae foal, colt (male), filly (female)

Female sow hen cow queen mare, dam

Group Adjective array[3] erinaceine siege, sedge bloat, crash, herd, bull hippopotamine thunder[23] drone swarm vespine herd, band, mob, team (work horses), stallion, stable, harras, string equine stud or field (race horses) man cock dog band, crowd, clan, tribe charm clan, cackle[10][12] pack hyenine iguanine human

Male boar cock

Meat

Human Hummingbir d Hyena Iguana Jackal Jaguar Jay, Blue Jellyfish Kangaroo Koala Komodo dragon Kouprey Kudu Lark Lemur

child, girl, boy chick cub, pup, whelp pup cub chick planula, polyp, ephyra[32] joey joey hatchling, chick, calf calf calf chick infant

woman hen bitch

long pig[31] (See cannibalism )

hen sow

cock boar

charm bloom, fluther[14], smack[12][14], smuck[3], smuth[8]

scyphozoan macropodine phascolarctine varanine sauveline, bovine alaudine lemurine

flyer, boomer, mob, troop, court, doe, jill, buck,jack herd roo doe buck colony, population cow, hen bull, cock cow cow hen princess bull bull cock dictator bank herd herd exaltation plot, congress, conspiracy leap, lepe pride, sawt herd, flock

Leopard Lion Llama Lobster

cub cub[18] cria

leopard, prowl, leopardes spot (has s been proposed) lioness lion hembra macho hen[4] cock[4]

pardine leonine camelid homarine

Animal Locust Loris Louse Lyrebird Magpie Mallard Manatee Meerkat Mink Mole Monkey Moose Mouse Mosquito Mule Narwhal Newt Nightingale Octopus Okapi Opossum Oryx Ostrich Otter Owl Ox Oyster

Young nymph infant nymph

Female

Male

hen

cock cock drake bull boar boar bull[13][27] buck john, horse mule cock bull jack cock

chick duckling calf pup cub, kit pup

hen hen cow sow sow

infant, boy/girl [13] calf cow[13] kitten, pinky/fuzzy/crawler/hop doe [35] per (as pet food), pup nymph, wriggler, tumbler molly, foal mare mule calf eft[36] chick larva calf joey calf hatchling, chick pup, whelp fledgling, owlet calf spat cow hen cow jill hen sow

Group Adjective cloud, host, plague, caelifera swarm colony[33] lorisine[34] colony, infestation, pediculine lice musket menurine tiding, tittering, tribe, gulp, murder, garruline charm, flock brace, flush, lute, anatine puddling, sord herd manatine, sirenian clan, gang, mob musteline labour, company, talpine movement tribe, troop[14] simian herd cervine colony, harvest, horde, mischief, murine nest scourge, swarm, aedine, cloud anopheline barren, pack, span, rake blessing[citation needed] watch, flock, route, match consortium herd philomelian okapine

Meat

poultry

venison

flock, troop ratite, struthious romp, bevy, lodge, boar musteline, lutrine family, raft parliament[10] strigine yoke, team, drove, bull, steer bovine herd bed, hive, cast, ostracine culch

meat

Animal Panda - see Bear Panther Parrot Partridge Peafowl Pelican Penguin Pig
[note 11]

Young

Female

Male

Group

Adjective

Meat

cub chick chick chick, peachick chick, nestling chick, nestling piglet, shoat/shote (a young, just weaned pig), gilt (female) squab, squeaker

pantheres s hen hen, chantelle peahen

pantherine cock cock company, flock covey perdicine pavonine poultry

peaflock, party, peacock muster, ostentation, pride pod [10] rookery, waddle, colony (on land), raft (in water) [37] boar cock

spheniscine

sow hen

herd, drove, mob, pork, ham, porcine, suilline drift, litter, sounder bacon flight, loft, flock, kit, team puddle herd, marmalade, string pullastrine squab

Pigeon Platypus

platypus foal (either sex), colt (young, immature male), Pony filly (young, immature female) Porcupine pup Porpoise calf Prairie Dog pup Quelea chick Rabbit Raccoon Rail Ram Rat bunny, kit, kitten, nestling cub, kit chick lamb

mare sow cow sow hen

stallion boar bull boar cock

equine hystricine

prickle herd, pod, school coterie, town flock, swarm warren, nest, doe, jill buck, jack colony, bevy, bury, drove, trace, leash sow boar nursery, gaze reeve ruff ewe ram flock colony, horde, mischief, pack, plague, swarm unkindness,[1][38] congress, conspiracy, parliament, murder, crime[citation needed]

queline leporine procyonine ralline arietine, ovine murine lamb and mutton

kitten, nestling, pinkie, doe, cow buck, bull pup, calf[6]

Raven

corvine

Animal Red deer Red panda Reindeer (caribou) Rhinoceros Rook

Young calf cub calf calf

Female hind sow cow cow

Male stag boar bull bull

Group herd pack herd crash, herd building[14], parliament[14][39] maelstrom, band

Adjective ailuirine rangiferine ceratorhine

Meat venison

Salamander tadpole, salamanderling larva pluteus (free Sand Dollar swimming stage), juvenile (young urchin) Sea lion pup, calf larva pluteus (free swimming stage), juvenile (young urchin) seafoal pup[6] chick kitten cub[18]

sow

boar

caudatan

cow

bull

pod, colony, crash, flock, harem, bob, herd, rookery, team, hurdle

otarine

Sea Urchin Seahorse Seal Seastar Serval Shark

seamare cow hen

seastallio n bull cock bull

shoal pod, rookery, bob, herd, harem group, school frenzy, school, shiver drift, drove, mob, flock, trip, herd colony, race, drove surfeit hood[citation needed]

hippocampal phocine asteridan selachian flake (AUS) lamb, mutton, hoggett, haggis (visceral meat)

Sheep

lamb, lambkin, cosset ewe, dam

ram[note 8], buck boar boar[4] n/a Spider cock buck

ovine

Shrew Skunk Snail Snake Spider Squid Squirrel

shrewlet, baby kit snakelet, hatchling (a newly-hatched snake), neonate(newborn) spiderling chick pup, kit, kitten

sow sow n/a Spider hen doe

soricine

gastropodian escargot anguine, elapine, pit, nest or bed serpentine, viperine, ophidian arachnine, cluster, clutter arachnoid roundup, audience tethidine calamari squad, dray, sciurine scurry[23]

Animal Stinkbug Swallow Swan Tapir Tarsier Termite Tiger Toad Trout Turkey Turtle Vicua Wallaby Walrus Wasp -see also Bee Water buffalo Weasel Whale Wolf Wombat Woodpecker Worm Wren Yak Zebra

Young nymph cygnet, flapper calf infant larva cub , whelp

[18]

Female

Male

pen cow doe cow tigress

cob bull buck bull tiger

tadpole, toadlet fingerling poult hatchling calf joey calf larva calf pup, kit calf[20] cub, pup,[6] whelp joey, chick chick wormlet chick calf colt, foal

Group Adjective intrusion pentatomidae flight bevy, game, flock, cygnine herd, team, wedge measure, herd tapirine herd, plot, harem, tarsiine troop colony, swarm ambush,[10] streak[23] tigrine [10][12] knot, lump, ranine, batrachian coven hoover

Meat

tom, gobbler, cream[citation needed], hen stag, jake rafter (immature ) bale, dule cow, bull, posse, herd seorita seor jill jack mob cow bull herd, flock, pod queen, drone swarm, hive, colony worker cow bull pot

poultry chelonian cameline odobenine vespine carabeef musteline cetacean, cetaceous lupine blubber

bitch, buck, dog, sneak, gang, nate[40] doe, jill hub, jack gam, grind, pod, cow[21] bull herd, school bitch, dog pack, rout she-wolf jill jack wisdom, mob descent bed, bunch, clew, squirm, wiggle cow bull herd, cabinet cow bull herd, cabinet [herd]],[10][41] cohort, mare stallion [41] zeal[10][41]

helminthic, vermian

zebrine, hippotigrine