Below is a list of appropriate English verbs corresponding to the sounds made by various animals.

Alligators -hiss,grunt,roar Apes - gibber Badgers - growl Basenji dogs - yodel Bats - screech Bears - growl Bees - hum and buzz Beetles - drone Birds - chirrup, chirp, twitter, tweet, sing: Bird song, whistle Bitterns - boom Blackbirds - whistle Calves - bleat Camels - grunt Cats - mew, purr, meow, hiss, yowl Cattle - moo, low, bawl (calf), bellow (bull) Chaffinches Chicks - cheep Chickens - cluck Chinchillas - squeak Cicadas - sing Cocks - crow Cows - low, moo Coyotes - yelp, cry Crickets - chirp, creak Crows - caw Cuckoos - coo, cuckoo Curlews - pipe Deers - bell Dingos - bark, cry Dodos - squawk, cry Dogs - bark, woof, arf Dolphins - click Donkeys - bray Doves - coo Ducks - quack

Eagles - scream, cry Elephants - trumpet Emus Falcons - chant Ferrets - dook Flies - buzz, hum Foxes - bark, yelp, simper Frogs - croak, Giraffes - bleat Goats - bleat, Geese - cackle, goble, hiss, honk, quack Grasshoppers - chirp Guinea pigs - squeak Hamsters - squeak Hares - squeak Hens - cackle, cluck Hermit Crab- chirp Hippopotamuses - bellow, rumble, roar, growl Humans - cry, scream, sing, talk Hogs - grunt Horses - neigh, snort, whinny, nicker Hyenas - laugh, scream Jackals - howl Jays - chatter Kangaroos - chortle Koalas - scream, bellow, wail Komodo dragons - growl, snarl, hiss Lambs - bleat Larks - sing, warble Linnets - chuckle Lions - roar, growl Llamas - growl, Magpies - chatter Mice - squeak and squeal Monkeys - chatter, gibber, whoop Moose - bellow Mosquitoes - whine

Narwhal- squeal Nightingales - pipe, sing, warble Okapis - cough, bellow Ostriches - chirp Owls - hoot, scream, screech, shriek Oxen - bellow, low Parrots - talk, screech, squawk Peacocks - scream Peafowls - scream Pigs - snort, grunt, squeal, oink Pigeons - coo Porpoises - whistle, click Prairie dogs - bark Puffins - moo Queleas - chatter Rabbits - squeak, drum Raccoons - chitter Rats - squeak Ravens - croak Rhinoceros - bellow Robins - chirp Rooks - caw Rooster - crow Seagulls - scream Seals - bark Sheep - bleat Snakes - hiss Sparrows - chirp, twitter Squirrels - squeak Stags - bellow Swallows - twitter, squeal Swans - cry Tigers - growl, roar Thrushes - whistle, sing Tokay Geckos Turkeys - gobble Vultures - scream Walruses - groan Whales - sing Wolves - howl, cry, yell Wrens - warble Zebras - whinny