List of animal names

This list gives names of animals used depending on the context. Many species of animals, particularly those domesticated, have been given specific names for the male, the female, and the young of the species. There are a few generic terms, "bull-cow-calf", for instance, that are found across species, but many species have been granted unique names for these gender/age characteristics. An empty table cell indicates incomplete data and should not be interpreted to mean that the animal does not have a specific name of that type. However, a table cell with a dash in it signifies that no term for the indicated combination exists. It is thought that many of the bizarre words used for collective groupings of animals were first published in 1486 in The Book of Saint Albans, in an essay on hunting attributed to Dame Juliana Berners. Many of the words are thought to have been chosen simply for the humorous or poetic images they conjured up in her lively imagination.[1][2] Most terms used here may be found in common dictionaries and general information web sites.[3][4][5] 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] colt (male), filly (female), foal kitten, cub fry, fingerling Female hen cow bitch jenny (asses), mare (other equids) queen 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

[edit] Terms by species or taxon

This section's factual accuracy is disputed. (September 2011) Animal Deer Moose Elk (wapiti) Red deer Pigeon Peafowl Young calf, fawn calf[13] calf[13] calf squab, squeaker chick, peachick Female Male Group bunch, herd, mob, rangale herd gang, herd herd flight, loft, flock, kit, team peaflock, party, muster, ostentation, pride flock, brood,[10] peep[10] On ground - flock, gaggle Adjective cervine, elaphine cervine cervine pullastrine pavonine Meat venison, humble (organ meat) venison venison venison squab poultry

buck, stag, doe, hind, bull, hart cow (red deer) cow[13] cow[13] hind hen peahen hen, pullet goose bull[13][27] bull[13] stag cock peacock rooster, cock(erel)[note 6] gander

Chicken Goose

chick, peep gosling

galline anatine, anserine

poultry poultry

Animal

Young

Female

Male

Duck -see also Mallard

duckling

duck, hen

drake

Guinea fowl

chick

hen

Turkey

poult

hen

cock tom, gobbler, stag, jake (immature ) drake boar

Group Adjective [14] In flight - skein , team[14], wedge[14] On land - flock, herd, badelynge, brace[12], safe[14], sord[25], sore[25], waddling[25] On water anatine, fuliguline bunch[14][25], [14][25] paddling , raft[14][25] In flight - skein[25], string[25], team[25] flock[29] numidine cream[citation needed], rafter brace, flush, lute, puddling, sord herd, drove, mob, drift, litter, sounder bed, hive, cast, culch

Meat

poultry

poultry

poultry

Mallard Pig
[note 11]

duckling piglet, shoat/shote (a young, just weaned pig), gilt (female) spat child, girl, boy

hen sow

anatine porcine, suilline ostracine human

poultry pork, ham, bacon meat long pig[31] (See cannibalism ) lamb, mutton, hoggett, haggis (visceral meat) lamb and mutton garabeef flake (AUS) escargot cui chevon, cabrito, mutton carabeef capeshark (USA), rock salmon (UK), flake (UK, AUS), huss (UK),

Oyster Human

woman

man

band, crowd, clan, tribe

Sheep

ram[note 8], lamb, lambkin, cosset ewe, dam buck

drift, drove, mob, flock, trip, herd

ovine

Ram Gaur Shark Snail Guinea pig Goat Water buffalo

lamb calf cub[18] pup kid calf

ewe cow

ram

flock

arietine, ovine bovine, gaurine selachian gastropodian

bull herd bull frenzy, school, shiver n/a n/a hood[citation needed] sow boar herd nanny, billy, doe, buck,[note 8] herd, mob, tribe, trip doeling buckling cow bull pot

caprine, hircine

Dogfish

troop[25]

Animal

Young

Female

Male

Group

Adjective

Squid Whale

chick calf[20]

hen cow[21]

cock bull

roundup, audience gam, grind, pod, herd, school herd,[10] drift,[3] drove,[10] mob, kine (female)[10]

tethidine cetacean, cetaceous bovine,[note 5] vituline (young), vaccine (female), taurine (male) rupicaprine panine chinchilline elapid blattid

Meat rigg (UK), kahada (CAN)[26] calamari blubber

Cattle[note 4] Chamois Cheetah Chimpanzee Chinchilla Clam Cobra Cockroach Cod -see also Fish Cormorant Coyote Crab Crane Crocodile Crow Dinosaur

calf[20] calf cub infant tureturle, kit larva nymph codling, hake, sprag, sprat chick cub, pup, whelp chick, colt[24] hatchling

cow[21] doe

bull bull

beef, veal

herd coalition (male)[22] 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

canine cancrine alectorine crocodilian corvine

cow

hatchling, juvenile

cow bitch, dam

Dog

whelp, pup,[6] puppy

Dolphin Donkey

calf, pup See Ass

cow

herd, sedge, siege bask, nest, bull congregation, float,[10] bask[10] hover, murder [10][14], parcel[3] herd (herbivores), bull pack (carnivores) pack,[25] litter dog, stud, (young), kennel,[25] sire gang, legion, group of hounds (cry, mute) team, school, pod, bull 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 herd

canine

delphine

Dove

chick, squal

hen

cock

columbine

Dragonfly Dugong

nymph calf

queen cow

king, drake bull

anisopteran dugongine

Animal Eagle Echidna Eel Eland Elephant Elephant seal Emu Falcon Ferret Finch Fish Fly Fox

Young eaglet, fledgling puggle leptocephalus (larva), elver (juvenile) calf calf[20] calf chick, hatchling eyass/eyas kit chick fry, fingerling maggot cub,[18] kit, pup[6] polliwog, tadpole, froglet calf[13] pup cub calf larva calf

Female sow cow cow[21] cow

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

Group convocation, brood, aerie swarm, cell, pipe, array herd herd, flock, parade herd, pack, arrangement mob cast, busyness,[1] business, fesny(i)ng, fesynes quiver draft, run, school, shaol swarm, cloud, business leash[10][12], skulk[10][12] army, colony,bundle,fester, knot herd horde

Adjective aquiline tachyglossine

Meat

Proboscine, Proboscidean miroungan

falcon jill hen

acciptrine musteline fringilline piscine dipterous vulpine

vixen

tod, dog, dog fox, reynard -

Frog Gazelle Gerbil Giant Panda Giraffe Gnat Gnu Gopher -see Prairie Dog Gorilla Grasshopper Grouse Guanaco Gull Hamster Hare Hawk Hedgehog

cow[13] doe sow cow cow

ranine gazelline cricetine giraffine

bull[13] buck boar bull, sire herd, corps, tower[28] cloud, horde bull herd

infant nymph chulengo chick, scorrie[30] pup leveret eyas hoglet, piglet, pup

blackback, troop, group (band) silverback swarm covey cock buck

simian

flock horde band, down, warren, doe, jill buck, jack husk hen sow tiercel boar cast, kettle, boil[note 9] array[3]

hen doe

camelid larine pile leverine, leporine accipitrine, falconine erinaceine

Animal Heron Hippopotamu s Hornet Horse[note 10] Hummingbird Hyena Iguana Jackal Jaguar Jay, Blue Jellyfish Kangaroo Koala Komodo dragon Kouprey Kudu Lark Lemur

Young chick calf larvae, pupae foal, colt (male), filly (female) chick cub, pup, whelp pup cub chick planula, polyp, ephyra[32] joey joey hatchling, chick, calf calf calf chick infant

Female hen cow queen mare, dam hen bitch

Male cock bull drone stallion, stud cock dog

Group siege, sedge bloat, crash, herd, thunder[23] swarm herd, band, mob, team (work horses), stable, harras, string or field (race horses) charm clan, cackle[10][12] pack

Adjective hippopotamine vespine equine

Meat

hyenine iguanine

hen sow

cock boar

flyer, doe, boomer, jill, roo buck,jack doe buck cow, hen bull, cock cow cow hen princess bull bull cock dictator

charm bloom, fluther[14], smack[12][14], smuck[3], smuth[8] mob, troop, court, herd colony, population bank herd herd exaltation plot, congress, conspiracy

scyphozoan macropodine phascolarctine varanine sauveline, bovine alaudine lemurine

Leopard

cub

Lion Llama Lobster Locust Loris Louse Caterpillar

cub[18] cria nymph infant nymph

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

leap, lepe

pardine

pride, sawt herd, flock cloud, host, plague, swarm colony[33] colony, infestation, lice [10] army, constituency clowder[10][14], cluster[10], clutter, glaring[10][14], pounce[10], kindle (young) herd

leonine camelid homarine caelifera lorisine[34] pediculine

Cat

kitten, kit

molly, queen, pussy

tom [note 3]

feline

Caribou

calf

Animal Camel Butterfly Bush baby Buffalo Boar Bison

Young calf caterpillar, larva, pupa, chrysalis infant calf shoat, farrow, piglet calf

Female cow

Male bull

queen cow

king, drake bull

cow queen, worker

[note 2]

bull

Bee Beaver Bear Bat Barracuda Badger Baboon Ass/Donkey Armadillo Ape Antelope Anteater Ant American Bison (Buffalo) Alpaca Alligator Albatross

larva, pupa kit, kitten, pup cub[18] pup

drone

sow, She- boar, Hebear bear

Group Adjective [10] flock, herd, camelid, cameline train[10] rabble, flight, pieridine, flutter[10]; swarm, pierine,lepidoptera army (caterpillars) n congress, gathering, galagine plot herd,[10] troop,[10] gang,[10] obstinancy[10] singular, sounder[10] herd, troop, gang, see also-Buffalo obstinacy colony, drift[14], erst [14] , grist [10], apic, apian, [10][14] [10] hive , nest , apiarian swarm[10][14] family,[10] colony[10] castorine[19] sleuth, sloth colony, cloud,[16] flock[17] school[15] cete [10][14], sett, colony, clan, company tribe, troop[10][14], flange[note 1] herd,[11] pace,[11][12] band, drove,[10][11] coffle[11] shrewdness[1][10][11][14] , troop[10][11] herd,[11] cluster,[11] tribe[11] army, bike,[11] colony,[11][12] swarm[11]
[11]

Meat

ursine pteropine, noctillionine percesocine musteline

cub, kit infant foal pup, baby infant calf[13] pup larva, pupa

sow jenny sow doe sow queen, worker, gyne cow

boar

jack boar buck boar drone

asinine cingulatan simian alcelaphine, bubaline, antilopine

formic, myrmecine

calf cria hatchling chick

bull

herd herd

bovine, bubaline camelid (see also Llama) eusuchian

cow

bull

congregation[10] flock[7], rookery[8], gam (when searching

Animal Aardvark Platypus Pony Porcupine Porpoise Prairie Dog Quelea Rabbit Raccoon Rail Rat

Young cub platypus foal (either sex), colt (young, immature male), filly (young, immature female) pup calf pup chick

Female sow

Male boar

Group for mates)[9] puddle herd, marmalade, string

Adjective orycteropodian

Meat

mare sow cow sow hen

stallion boar bull boar cock

equine hystricine

Raven Red panda Reindeer (caribou) Rhinoceros Rook

prickle herd, pod, school coterie, town flock, swarm warren, nest, colony, bunny, kit, kitten, doe, jill buck, jack bevy, bury, drove, nestling trace, leash cub, kit sow boar nursery, gaze chick reeve ruff colony, horde, kitten, nestling, pinkie, doe, cow buck, bull mischief, pack, pup, calf[6] plague, swarm unkindness,[1][38] congress, conspiracy, parliament, murder, crime[citation needed] cub sow boar pack calf calf cow cow bull bull herd crash, herd building[14], parliament[14][39] maelstrom, band

queline leporine procyonine ralline murine

corvine ailuirine rangiferine ceratorhine

Salamander tadpole, salamanderling larva pluteus (free Sand Dollar swimming stage), juvenile (young urchin) Sea lion pup, calf

sow

boar

caudatan

cow

bull

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

otarine

Sea Urchin Seahorse Seal Seastar Serval Shrew Skunk Penguin

larva pluteus (free swimming stage), juvenile (young urchin) seafoal seamare seastallion pup[6] chick kitten shrewlet, baby kit chick, nestling cow hen sow sow bull cock boar boar[4]

shoal pod, rookery, bob, herd, harem group, school colony, race, drove surfeit rookery, waddle,

hippocampal phocine asteridan soricine spheniscine

Animal

Young

Female

Male

Pelican Partridge Parrot Panther Panda - see Bear Ox Owl Otter Ostrich Oryx Opossum Okapi Octopus Nightingale Newt Narwhal Mule Mosquito

chick, nestling chick chick cub hen, chantelle hen pantheres s cock cock

Group colony (on land), raft (in water) [37] pod [10] covey company, flock

Adjective

Meat

perdicine

pantherine

calf fledgling, owlet pup, whelp hatchling, chick calf joey calf larva chick eft[36] calf foal nymph, wriggler, tumbler kitten, pinky/fuzzy/crawler/ho pper (as pet food),[35] pup infant, boy/girl pup cub, kit pup calf chick

cow

bull, steer

sow hen jill cow hen molly, mare mule

boar cock jack bull cock -

yoke, team, drove, herd parliament[10] romp, bevy, lodge, family, raft flock, troop

bovine strigine musteline, lutrine ratite, struthious

herd consortium watch, flock, route, match [citation needed] blessing

okapine philomelian -

john, barren, pack, span, horse mule rake scourge, swarm, cloud colony, harvest, horde, mischief, nest tribe, troop[14] labour, company, movement aedine, anopheline

Mouse Monkey Mole Mink Meerkat Manatee Magpie Lyrebird Zebra Wren Yak

doe sow sow cow hen hen

buck boar boar bull cock cock stallion bull bull

murine simian talpine musteline

colt, foal chick calf

mare cow cow

clan, gang, mob herd manatine, sirenian tiding, tittering, tribe, gulp, murder, charm, garruline flock musket menurine [10][41] [herd]], zebrine, cohort,[41] zeal[10][41] hippotigrine herd, cabinet herd, cabinet

Animal Wombat Worm Woodpecker Vicua Wolf Weasel Wasp -see also Bee Walrus Wallaby Snake Turtle Trout Toad Tiger Termite Tarsier Tapir Swan Swallow Stinkbug Squirrel

Young joey, chick wormlet chick calf cub, pup,[6] whelp pup, kit larva calf joey snakelet, hatchling (a newly-hatched snake), neonate(newborn) hatchling fingerling tadpole, toadlet cub[18], whelp larva infant calf cygnet, flapper nymph pup, kit, kitten

Female jill

Male jack

Group wisdom, mob bed, bunch, clew, squirm, wiggle descent

Adjective helminthic, vermian cameline lupine musteline vespine odobenine anguine, elapine, serpentine, viperine, ophidian chelonian

Meat

cow, bull, seor posse, herd seorita bitch, shedog pack, rout wolf bitch, buck, dog, sneak, gang, nate[40] doe, jill hub, jack queen, drone swarm, hive, colony worker cow bull herd, flock, pod jill jack mob tigress cow doe cow pen tiger bull buck bull cob pit, nest or bed

doe

buck

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