Learn about different words you can use to describe male, female, baby, and groups of animals. For example, a baby kangaroo is called a joey.
Click on a picture or an underlined word to go to an animal printout. Or learn about collective nouns.
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Alligator | bull | cow | hatchling | congregation, pod (of young) |
Alpaca | male | female | cria | herd | |
Antelope | buck | doe | calf | herd | |
Ape | male | female | baby | shrewdness | |
Armadillo | male | female | pup | ||
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Baboon | male | female | infant | troop, congress | |
Badger | boar | sow | kit, cub | cete | |
Bat | male | female | pup | colony | |
Bear | boar | sow | cub | sleuth, sloth | |
Beaver | pup, kitten | colony | |||
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Bee | drone | queen, worker | larva | hive, swarm (in flight), bike, drift, grist |
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Bird | cock | hen | hatchling, chick | dissimulation (small birds only), fleet, flight, flock, parcel, pod, volery |
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Bison, Buffalo | bull | cow | calf | gang, herd, obstinacy |
Boar | boar | sow | piglet, shoat, farrow | singular, sounder | |
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Butterfly | male | female | caterpillar, larva, pupa, chrysalis | swarm, rabble (group of caterpillars is an army) |
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Camel | bull | cow | calf | flock |
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Cat | tomcat | queen | kitten | clutter, clowder, litter (young born to one female), kindle (kittens) |
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Cattle | bull | cow | calf, dogie (a motherless calf) | drift, drove, herd, mob |
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Cheetah | male | female | cub | coalition |
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Chicken | rooster | hen | chick, pullet (young hen), cockrell (young rooster) | flock, brood (of hens), clutch (of chicks), peep (of chicks) |
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Clam | larva | bed | ||
Cockroach | nymph | intrusion | |||
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Codfish | codling, hake, sprag, sprat | school | |||
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Coyote | dog | bitch | pup, whelp | pack, rout |
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Crane | chick | herd, sedge, siege | ||
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Crow | cock | hen | chick | murder, muster |
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Deer | buck, stag | doe | fawn | herd, mob |
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Dinosaur | bull | cow | hatchling, juvenile | herd (of plant-eaters), pack (of meat-eaters) |
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Dog | dog | bitch | pup | litter (pups from one mother), pack (wild), kennel |
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Dolphin | bull | cow | pup, calf | herd, pod, school |
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Donkey | jack, jackass | jennet, jenny | colt, foal | drove, herd |
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Dove | cock | hen | squab, chick | dole, flight, piteousness |
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Duck | drake | duck | duckling | badelynge, brace, bunch, flock, paddling, raft, team |
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Eagle | fledgling, eaglet | aerie, convocation | ||
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Eel | leptocephalus (larva), elver (juvenile) | swarm | ||
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Elephant | bull | cow | calf | herd, parade |
Elk | bull | cow | calf | herd, gang | |
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Emu | chick, hatchling | mob | ||
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Falcon | tercel, terzel | falcon | chick | cast |
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Ferret | hob | jill | kit | business, fesynes |
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Fish | fry, fingerling | draft, run, school, shoal | ||
Finch | cock | hen | chick | charm | |
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Flamingo | chick | colony, flamboyance, flurry, stand, regiment | ||
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Fly | maggot | cloud, swarm | ||
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Fox | reynard, dog, dog fox, or tod | vixen | kit, cub, pup | skulk, leash |
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Frog | tadpole, polliwog, froglet |
army, knot | ||
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Gerbil | buck | doe | pup | horde |
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Giraffe | bull | doe | calf | herd, corps, tower, group |
Gnat | male | female | larva | cloud, horde | |
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Gnu | bull | cow | calf | herd |
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Goat | buck, billy | doe, nanny | kid, billy | herd, tribe, trip |
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Goose | gander | goose | gosling | flock, gaggle, skein (only while in flight), wedge (flying in a "V" formation) |
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Gorilla | male | female | infant | band |
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Grasshopper | male | female | nymph | swarm |
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Grouse | covey | ||||
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Guinea pig | boar | sow | pup | group |
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Gull | cock | hen | chick | colony |
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Hamster | buck | doe | pup | horde |
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Hare | buck | doe | leveret | down, husk, warren |
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Hawk | tiercel | hen | eyas | aerie, cast, kettle |
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Hedgehog | boar | sow | piglet, pup | array |
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Heron | cock | hen | chick | sedge, siege |
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Hippopotamus | bull | cow | calf | herd, bloat |
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Hornet | male | female | larva | nest | |
Hog | boar | sow | shoat, farrow | drove, herd, litter (a group of young born to one mother) | |
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Horse | stallion, stud | mare, dam | foal, colt (male), filly (female) | stable, harras, herd, team (working horses), string or field (race horses) |
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Hound | dog | bitch | pup | cry, mute, pack |
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Human | man | woman | baby, infant, toddler | clan (related), crowd, family (closely related), community, gang, mob, tribe, etc. |
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Hummingbird | cock | hen | chick | charm |
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Hyena | male | female | cub | clan, cackle |
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Jay | cock | hen | chick | band, party |
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Jellyfish | ephyna | smackm bloom, swarm | ||
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Kangaroo | buck, boomer, jack | doe, flyer, jill, roo | joey | troop, herd, mob |
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Koala | male | female | joey | n/a |
Lark | cock | hen | chick | exaltation | |
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Leopard | leopard | leopardess | cub | leap, prowl (some say it should be a spot of leopards) |
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Lion | lion | lioness | cub | pride |
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Llama | cria | herd | ||
Locust | host, swarm | ||||
Louse (plural lice) | male | female | nymph | colony, infestation, lice | |
Magpie | cock | hen | chick | tiding, tribe, charm, gulp, flock, murder | |
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Mallard | drake | duck | duckling | flush, sord |
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Marten | richness | ||||
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Mole | male | female | pup | labor |
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Monkey | male | female | infant | troop, cartload |
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Moose | bull | cow | calf | herd |
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Mosquito | male | female | lnymph, wriggler, tumbler | swarm |
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Mouse | buck | doe | pup, pinkie, kitten | horde, mischief |
Mule | john | molly | foal | barren, pack, span | |
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Nightingale | cock | hen | chick | watch |
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Opossum | jack | jill | joey | |
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Ostrich | cock | hen | chick | flock |
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Otter | male | female | whelp, pup | family, raft, romp |
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Owl | owlet, fledgling | parliament | ||
Ox | steer, bull | cow | stot, calf | drove, herd, yoke | |
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Oyster | spat | bed | ||
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Panda | boar | sow | cub | |
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Parrot | cock | hen | chick | company, flock |
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Peafowl | peacock | peahen | peachick | muster, ostentation |
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Penguin | male | female | chick | rookery |
Pheasant | cock | hen | chick | brood (a family), nye (a large group) | |
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Pig | boar | sow | piglet, shoat, farrow | drove, herd, litter (of pups), sounder |
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Pigeon | cock | hen | squab, squeaker | flock, kit |
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Platypus | puggle | |||
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Porpoise | bull | cow | calf | herd, pod, school |
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Prairie dog | boar | sow | pup | coterie, town |
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Pronghorn | buck | doe | fawn | herd |
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Quail | cock | hen | chick | bevy, covey, drift |
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Rabbit | buck | doe | kitten, bunny, kit | colony, drove, leash, nest, trace, warren |
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Raccoon | boar | sow | cub | nursery, gaze |
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Rat | buck | doe | pup, pinkie, kitten | horde, mischief |
Raven | congress, unkindness | ||||
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Reindeer | bull | cow | calf | herd |
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Rhinoceros | bull | cow | calf | crash |
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Sand Dollar | male | female | larva, pluteus (free-swimming stage), juvenile (young urchin) | |
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Seal | bull | cow | pup | herd, pod, rookery, harem |
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Seastar | male | female | larva, pluteus (free-swimming stage), juvenile (young urchin) | |
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Sea Urchin | male | female | larva, pluteus (free-swimming stage), juvenile (young urchin) | |
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Serval | male | female | kitten | |
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Shark | bull | female | pup | school, shiver |
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Sheep | buck, ram | ewe, dam | lamb, lambkin, cosset | drift, drove, flock,herd, mob, trip |
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Skunk | kit | surfeit | ||
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Snake | male | female | Snakelet, neonate (a newly-born snake), hatchling (a newly-hatched snake) | bed, nest, pit |
Snipe | wisp | ||||
Sparrow | host | ||||
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Spider | male | female | spiderling | |
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Squid | male | female | hatchling, paralarva, larva | shoal, squad |
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Squirrel | buck | doe | pup, kit, kitten | dray |
Swallow | flight | ||||
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Swan | cob | pen | cygnet, flapper | bevy, game, herd, team, wedge (flying in a "V" formation) |
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Termite | male | female | larva | swarm (while flying), colony | |
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Tiger | tiger | tigress | cub, whelp | ambush, streak |
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Toad | male | female | tadpole | knot |
Trout | fingerling | hoover | |||
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Turkey | tom or gobbler (adult male), jake (juvenile male) | hen | poult | rafter |
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Turtle | male | female | hatchling | bale |
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Wallaby | jack | jill | joey | mob |
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Walrus | bull | cow | cub, pup | herd, pod |
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Wasp | drone | queen (reproducing female), worker (non-reproducing female) | larva | colony |
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Weasel | dog, buck, Jack, hob | bitch, doe, Jill | kit | gang |
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Whale | bull | cow | calf | gam, grind, herd, pod, school |
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Wolf | dog | bitch | pup, whelp | pack, rout |
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Wombat | jack | jill | joey | mob |
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Woodpecker | male | female | chick | descent |
Wren | cock | jenny | chick | flock, herd | |
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Yak | bull | cow | calf | herd |
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Yellow Jacket | drone | queen (egg-laying female), worker (non-reproducing female) | larva | colony |
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Zebra | stallion | mare | colt, foal | herd, crossing |