List of Animal Names - Terms By Species or Taxon

Terms By Species or Taxon

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Animal Young Female Male Group Adjective Meat
Aardvark cub sow boar — orycteropodian
Albatross chick — — flock, rookery, gam (when searching for mates)
Alligator hatchling cow bull congregation eusuchian
Alpaca cria herd camelid (see also Llama)
American Bison (Buffalo) calf cow bull herd bovine, bubaline
Ant larva, pupa queen, worker, gyne drone army, bike, colony, nest, swarm formic, myrmecine
Anteater pup sow boar — Xenarthrans - Xenarthra
Antelope calf doe buck herd, cluster, tribe alcelaphine, bubaline, antilopine
Ape infant — — shrewdness, troop simian
Armadillo pup, baby sow boar — cingulatan
Ass/Donkey foal jenny jack herd, pace, band, drove, coffle asinine
Baboon infant — tribe, troop, flange
Badger cub, kit sow boar cete, sett, colony, clan, company musteline
Barracuda school percesocine
Bat pup — — colony, cloud, flock pteropine, noctillionine
Bear cub sow, She-bear boar, He-bear sleuth, sloth ursine
Beaver kit, kitten, pup — — family, colony castorine
Bee larva, pupa queen, worker drone colony, drift, erst, grist ,
hive, nest, swarm		 apic, apian, apiarian
Bison calf cow bull herd, troop, gang, obstinacy see also-Buffalo
Boar shoat, farrow, piglet singular, sounder
Buffalo calf cow bull herd, troop, gang, obstinancy
Bush baby infant queen king, drake congress, gathering, plot galagine
Butterfly caterpillar, larva, pupa, chrysalis rabble, flight, flutter; swarm, army (caterpillars) pieridine, pierine,lepidopteran
Camel calf cow bull Caravan, flock, herd, train camelid, cameline
Caribou calf herd
Cat kitten, kit molly, queen, pussy tom clowder, cluster, clutter, dout, glare, glaring, glorying, nuisance, pounce,
(for kittens) kindle, litter, intrigue
(wild) destruction		 feline
Caterpillar army, constituency
Cattle calf cow bull herd, drift, drove, mob, kine (female), team bovine, vituline (young), vaccine (female), taurine (male) beef, veal
Chamois calf doe bull herd rupicaprine
Cheetah cub coalition (male)
Chicken chick, peep hen, pullet rooster, cock(-erel) flock, brood, peep
(chicks) clutch, chattering		 galline poultry
Chimpanzee infant empress blackback troop, group, harem panine
Chinchilla tureturle, kit velvet, sow boar, bull herd, colony chinchilline
Chough chick clattering corvine
Clam larva bed
Cobra quiver elapid
Cockroach nymph intrusion blattid
Cod -see also Fish codling, hake, sprag, sprat school, lap
Cormorant chick gulp, flight
Coyote cub, pup, whelp bitch dog pack, train, band canine
Crab — hen cock, jimmy consortium, cast cancrine
Crane chick, colt herd, sedge, siege alectorine
Crocodile hatchling cow bull bask, congregation, float, nest crocodilian
Crow horde, hover, murder, parcel storytelling corvine
Curlew herd
Deer calf, fawn doe, hind, cow buck, stag, bull, hart (red deer) bunch, gang, herd, leash, mob, rangale
(buck) brace, clash,
(roe) bevy		 cervine, elaphine venison, humble (organ meat)
Dinosaur hatchling, juvenile cow bull herd (herbivores), pack (carnivores)
Dog whelp, pup, puppy bitch, dam dog, stud, sire pack, kennel, gang, legion
(hound) cry, mute
(young) litter
(cur) cowardice		 canine
Dogfish troop capeshark (USA), rock salmon (UK), flake (UK, AUS), huss (UK), rigg (UK), kahada (CAN)
Dolphin calf, pup cow bull school, pod, herd, team, alliance (male), party (female) delphine
Donkey See Ass
Dotterel trip
Dove chick, squal hen cock arc, bevy, cote, dole,, dule, flight, paddling, piteousness, pitying columbine
Dragon drakling -- -- thunder
Dragonfly nymph queen king, drake cluster, flight anisopteran
Duck -see also Mallard duckling duck, hen drake On land - flock, herd, badelynge, badling, brace, safe, sord, sore, waddling
On water - bunch, paddling, raft, team
In flight - skein, string, team		 anatine, fuliguline poultry
Dugong calf cow bull herd dugongine
Dunlin fling
Eagle eaglet, fledgling — — convocation, brood, aerie aquiline
Echidna puggle sow boar — tachyglossine
Eel leptocephalus (larva), elver (juvenile) — — bed, fry, swarm, cell, pipe, array
Eland calf cow bull herd
Elephant calf cow bull herd,flock, memory, parade Proboscine, Proboscidean
Elephant seal calf cow bull herd, pack, arrangement miroungan
Elk (wapiti) calf cow bull gang, herd cervine venison
Emu chick, hatchling mob
Falcon eyass/eyas falcon tiercel, tercel, terzel cast, acciptrine
Ferret kit jill hob busyness, business, cast, fesny(i)ng, fesynes musteline
Finch chick hen cock charm, quiver fringilline
Fish fry, fingerling draft, nest, run, school, shoal
When caught- catch, drought, haul		 piscine
Flamingo stand, flamboyance
Fly maggot business, cloud, swarm dipterous
Fox cub, kit, pup vixen tod, dog, dog fox, reynard earth, lead, leash, skulk, troop vulpine
Frog polliwog, tadpole, froglet - - army, colony, bundle, fester, knot ranine
Gaur calf cow bull herd bovine, gaurine garabeef
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 giraffine
Gnat larva cloud, horde, swarm
Gnu calf cow bull herd, implausibility
Goat kid nanny, doe, doeling billy, buck, buckling drove, flock, herd, mob, tribe, trip caprine, hircine chevon, cabrito, mutton
Goose gosling goose gander On ground -corps, flock, gaggle, herd
In flight - skein, team, wedge		 anatine, anserine poultry
Goldfinch charm
Goldfish glint, troubling
Gopher -see Prairie Dog
Gorilla infant — blackback,
silverback		 troop, band simian
Goshawk flight
Grasshopper nymph cloud, swarm
Grouse covey,
Guanaco chulengo camelid
Guillemot bazaar
Guinea fowl chick hen cock confusion, flock numidine poultry
Guinea pig pup sow boar herd cui
Gull chick, scorrie hen cock colony, flock, screech larine
Hamster pup doe buck horde cricetid
Hare leveret doe, jill buck, jack band, down, warren, husk leverine, leporine
Hawk eyas hen tiercel cast, kettle, boil accipitrine, falconine
Hedgehog hoglet, piglet, pup sow boar array erinaceine
Heron chick hen cock hedge, sedge, siege
Herring army, shoal
Hippopotamus calf cow bull bloat, crash, herd, thunder hippopotamine
Hornet larvae, pupae queen drone bite, nest, swarm vespine
Horse foal, colt (male), filly (female) mare, dam stallion, stud (wild} herd, band, mob(work horses) team, stable, harras, troop,
(race horses) string or field
(colt) rag, rake
(pony) string		 equine
Human child, girl, boy woman man band, crowd, clan, tribe human long pig (See cannibalism)
Hummingbird chick hen cock charm
Hyena cub, pup, whelp bitch dog clan, cackle hyenine
Iguana iguanine
Jackal pup pack
Jaguar cub
Jay band, party, scold corvine
Jay, Blue chick hen cock charm corvine
Jellyfish planula, polyp, ephyra sow boar bloom, brood, fluther, smack, smuck, smuth scyphozoan
Kangaroo joey flyer, doe, jill, roo boomer, buck,jack court, herd, mob, troop macropodine
Koala joey doe buck colony, population phascolarctine
Komodo dragon hatchling, chick, calf cow, hen bull, cock bank varanine
Kouprey calf cow bull herd sauveline, bovine
Kudu calf cow bull herd
Lapwing deceipt
Lark chick hen cock ascension, exaltation alaudine
Lemur infant princess dictator plot, congress, conspiracy lemurine
Leopard cub leopardess leopard, prowl, spot (has been proposed) leap, lepe pardine
Lion cub lioness lion pride, sawt, troop leonine
Llama cria hembra macho herd, flock camelid
Lobster hen cock homarine
Locust nymph — — cloud, host, plague, swarm caelifera
Loris infant colony lorisine
Louse nymph — — colony, infestation, lice pediculine
Lyrebird hen cock musket menurine
Magpie chick hen cock tiding, tittering, tribe, gulp, murder, charm, flock garruline
Mallard duckling hen drake brace, flush, lute, puddling
In flight-sord		 anatine poultry
Manatee calf cow bull herd manatine, sirenian
Marten richness
Meerkat pup — — clan, gang, mob
Mink cub, kit sow boar musteline
Mole pup sow boar labour, company, movement talpine
Monkey infant, boy/girl — — barrel, carload, cartload, tribe, troop simian
Moose calf cow bull herd cervine venison
Mouse kitten, pinky/fuzzy/crawler/hopper (as pet food), pup doe buck colony, harvest, horde, mischief, nest murine
Mosquito nymph, wriggler, tumbler — — scourge,swarm, cloud aedine, anopheline
Mule foal molly, mare mule john, horse mule barren, pack, span, rake
Narwhal calf - - blessing -
Newt eft - - - -
Nightingale chick hen cock watch, flock, route, match philomelian
Octopus larva - - consortium -
Okapi calf cow bull herd okapine
Opossum joey jill jack
Oryx calf
Ostrich hatchling, chick hen cock flock, troop ratite, struthious
Otter pup, whelp sow boar romp, bevy, lodge, family, raft musteline, lutrine
Owl fledgling, owlet parliament, stare strigine
Ox calf cow bull, steer yoke, team, droveherd bovine
Oyster spat bed, hive, cast, culch ostracine meat
Panda - see Bear
Panther cub pantheress pantherine
Parrot chick hen cock company, flock, pandemonium
Partridge chick hen, chantelle cock bevy, covey perdicine
Peafowl chick, peachick peahen peacock peaflock, party, muster, ostentation, pride pavonine poultry
Pelican chick, nestling pod
Penguin chick, nestling rookery, huddle, waddle
(on land) colony
(in water) raft
(nursery) crèche		 spheniscine
Pheasant chick hen cock (general) nest, nye
(brood) nide
(take-off) bouquet
Pig piglet, shoat/shote (a young, just weaned pig), gilt (female) sow boar (general) drift, drove
(boar) herd, mob, singular, sounder
(hog) team, passel, parcel
(piglet) farrow, litter,		 porcine, suilline pork, ham, bacon
Pigeon squab, squeaker hen cock flight, loft, flock, kit, team pullastrine squab
Platypus platypus puddle
Polecat chine
Pony foal (either sex), colt (young, immature male), filly (young, immature female) mare stallion herd, marmalade, string equine
Porcupine pup sow boar prickle hystricine
Porpoise calf cow bull crowd, herd, pod, school, shoal
Prairie Dog pup sow boar coterie, town
Quail chick hen cock bevy, covey
Quelea chick hen cock flock, swarm queline
Rabbit bunny, kit, kitten, nestling doe, jill buck, jack warren, colony, bevy, bury, drove, trace, leash, trip
(domestic) herd
(hare) down, husk
(young) litter, nest		 leporine
Raccoon cub, kit sow boar nursery, gaze procyonine
Rail chick reeve ruff ralline
Ram lamb ewe ram flock arietine, ovine lamb and mutton
Rat kitten, nestling, pinkie, pup, calf doe, cow buck, bull colony, horde, mischief, pack, plague, swarm murine
Rattlesnake rhumba
Raven unkindness, congress, conspiracy, parliament, murder, crime corvine
Red deer calf hind stag herd venison
Red panda cub sow boar pack ailuirine
Reindeer (caribou) calf cow bull herd rangiferine
Rhinoceros calf cow bull crash,herd, stubbornness ceratorhine
Rook building, clamor, parliament
Ruff hill
Salamander tadpole, salamanderling sow boar maelstrom, band, congress caudatan
Salmon run
Sand Dollar larva pluteus (free swimming stage), juvenile (young urchin)
Sandpiper fling
Sardine family
Scorpion bed, nest
Sea lion pup, calf cow bull pod, colony, crash, flock, harem, bob, herd, rookery, team, hurdle otarine
Sea Urchin larva pluteus (free swimming stage), juvenile (young urchin)
Seahorse seafoal seamare seastallion shoal hippocampal
Seal pup cow bull pod, rookery, bob, herd, harem phocine
Seastar chick hen cock group, school asteridan
Serval kitten
Shark cub bull frenzy, school, shiver selachian flake (AUS)
Sheep lamb, lambkin, cosset ewe, dam ram, buck down, drift, drove, mob, flock, fold, hurtle, trip, herd ovine lamb, mutton, hoggett, haggis (visceral meat)
Shrew shrewlet, baby sow boar colony, race, drove soricine
Skunk kit sow boar surfeit
Snail - n/a n/a escargatoire, rout, walk, hood gastropodian escargot
Snake snakelet, hatchling (a newly-hatched snake), neonate(newborn) — — pit, nest, bed, den, knot anguine, elapine, serpentine, viperine, ophidian
Spider spiderling Spider Spider cluster, clutter arachnine, arachnoid
Squid chick hen cock roundup, audience tethidine calamari
Squirrel pup, kit, kitten doe buck squad, dray, scurry sciurine
Starling murmuration, chattering
Stingray fever
Stinkbug nymph intrusion pentatomidae
Stork muster, mustering
Swallow flight, gulp
Swan cygnet, flapper pen cob bank, bevy, game, flock, herd, team
(In flight) wedge, flight		 cygnine
Tapir calf cow bull measure, herd tapirine
Tarsier infant doe buck herd, plot, harem, troop tarsiine
Termite larva cow bull brood, colony, nest, swarm
Tiger cub, whelp tigress tiger ambush, streak tigrine
Toad tadpole, toadlet — — knot, knab, nest, lump, coven ranine, batrachian
Trout fingerling hover
Turkey poult hen tom, gobbler, stag, jake (immature) cream, rafter, gang, posse poultry
Turtle hatchling — — bale, nest, turn, dule chelonian
Vicuña calf cow, señorita bull, señor posse, herd cameline
Viper generation, nest
Vulture venue
Wallaby joey jill jack mob
Walrus calf cow bull herd, flock, pod odobenine
Wasp -see also Bee larva queen, worker drone swarm, hive, colony, nest vespine
Water buffalo calf cow bull pot carabeef
Weasel pup, kit bitch, doe, jill buck, dog, hub, jack sneak, gang, nate musteline
Whale calf cow bull gam, grind, pod, herd, school, mob cetacean, cetaceous blubber
Wolf cub, pup, whelp bitch, she-wolf dog pack, route lupine
Wolverine kit, whelp angeline wolverine pack, gang, mob musteline
Wombat joey, chick jill jack wisdom, mob
Woodcock fall
Woodpecker chick descent
Worm wormlet bed, bunch, clat, clew, squirm, wiggle helminthic, vermian
Wren chick cow bull herd, cabinet
Yak calf cow bull herd, cabinet
Zebra colt, foal mare stallion herd, cohort, crossing, dazzle, zeal zebrine, hippotigrine

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