Animal Terms

 

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Baby, Male, Female and Group Plus other interesting ANIMAL RELATED TERMS

It has been our hobby over the years, collecting the following terms that refer to various species of living things. This list is meant for ENGLISH speaking countries.

In addition, we have just added and continue to work on a sixth column that includes many different terms that relate to specific animals (and or plants) that are interesting but not necessarily in the first categories.

In some instances the terms are rarely used these days, have different spellings (probably corruptions of the same word), etc. however, we show them because you may find them in older literature.

Additionally, animals are referred to by different terms in other countries (or even local communities). Also, in many species, young are called 'whelps', chits etc., males and females that have reproduced are called sires and dams respectively, and a group of related young are called a litter. Occasionally there is a term for a 'neutered' male or female, and in that instance if we have the term, we note include it.

We welcome all VERIFIABLE additions.

If you would like to add to this list, and can verify it in PUBLISHED PRINT, feel free to e-mail R-Zu-2-U and Treasure Ranch after you have read the paragraph below.

We list all the verifiable terms we have at this time so Please do NOT email us asking for terms on other animals or to say that you 'heard' someone use a different term unless it is verifiable in print.

Thanks, Pat Storer

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Animal/Plant

Baby

Male

Female

Group

Other Interesting Terms

All animal GENERAL terms

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Merle-blue gray coat

Aardvark

Pup

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n/a

Alligator

Hatchling

Bull

Cow

Congregation

Alpaca

Cria

Stallion

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Herd/Flock

Ant

Larva, Antling

Winged males, aner

Queens/workers

Colony

Anteater

Pup

Male

Female

n/a

Antelope

Calf

Buck

Doe

Herd

Antlion

Doodlebug

Male

Female

.

Ape

Infant

Male

Female

Shrewdness

Armadillo

Pup

Male

Female

n/a

Ass

Foal

Jack

Jenny

Herd, Band, pace

Baboon

Infant

Male

Female

Tribe

Badger

Kit, Cub

Boar/brock

Sow

Cete

AKA in UK as Bausen,brock or gray

Barnacle

nauplis Second state=cyprid

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Group

Bat

Pup

Male

Female

Colony

Bears

Cub

Boar

Sow

Sleuth/Sloth

Beaver

Kitten

Male

Female

Lodge/Colony*/P>

Home=Lodge

Bee

Larva/schadon

Drone,
immature=cephen, sirene

Queen/worker

Swarm, Hive, drift, bike
Grist,erst

Beetle

Grub, mealworm

Male

Female

Swarm

Binturong

Cub

Boar

Sow

n/a

Bird (general)

Nestling,
Fledgling
group=brood, clutch

Cock

Hen

Volery, Flight,
Flock, fleet, parcel, pod, dissimulation

Unfledged=gor,gorbet,gorblin
sound of hen calling chicks=chich
chorus of singing birds=bliss
Darting flying pattern of alarmed birds=skiver
blackbird=merl

Bittern

Chick

Cock

Hen

Sedge/siege

Bison

Calf

Bull

Cow

Herd/gang

Boars, Wild

piglet

Boar
enraged - chafant

Sow

Sounder

Roar of boar=fream

Bobolink

Chick

Cock

Hen

Chain

Buffalo, Cape

Calf

Bull

Cow

Herd/gang, obstinacy

Butterfly

Caterpillar
Group=Army

Male

Female

Swarm/rabble

Buzzard

Chick

Cock

Hen

Wake/flock

Camel

Calf

Bull

Cow

Flock

Cat

Kitten
Group=Kindle
litter, intrigue

Tom, gib#

Queen

Clutter/Clowder, dowt, glaring, destruction=(wild cats)

Mew=kewt

Cattle

Calf

Bull
neutered = steer
neutered as adult=seg
Young bull=bullock
1-2 yrs old=stirk

Cow
young=heifer, guey, whey, genice
colpach,colbtach

Herd/Drove, drift, mob,flink

Stray group of steers = cavy
Young bull in Australia=Micky
Sterile female calf=Freemartin (twin w/male)

Chicken

Chick
Group=Clutch,cletch
brood, peep

Rooster, cock, chanticleer
young=cockrell
neutered=capon

Hen
young=pullet

Flock/Brood

Domestic home=coop, cavie

Chimpanzee

Infant

Male

Female

Cartload

Chinchilla

Male

Female

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Herd

Chough

Chick

Cock, Rooster

Hen

Chattering, cluttering

Clam

Larva, chiton

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Bed

Cockroach

Larva

Male

Female

Intrusion

Codfish

Codling
Young=Hake, Sprag, Sprat, Skrod

Male

Female

School

Coney

Bunny

Buck

Doe

Bury

Coot

Chick

Cock

Hen

Covert/cover

Cormorant

Chick

Cock

Hen

Gulp

Coyote

Pup

Dog

Bitch, gyp

Pack

Crab

Zoea, megalops, dricthus, glaucothoe

Male

Female

.

Peeler=molting individual

Crane

Chick, Craneling

Cock

Hen

Siege, Sedge

Crocodile

Crocklets

Bull

Cow

Congregation/bask

Crow

Chick

Cock

Hen

Murder/horde

Deer

Fawn, Knobber,
Brockett

Buck, stag
3rd yr-spaie, spayard 2nd yr - spittard, hart
young=pricket

Doe

Herd

Shed horns=muson, unbranched antlers=dag

Dog

Pup, Puppy,
Whelp

Dog

Bitch

Pack/kennel

Dog, Hound

Pup, Puppy,
Whelp

Dog

Bitch

Pack, cry, mute, kennel

Dolphin

Pup

Bull

Cow

Pod

Donkey

Foal

Jack

Jenny/jennet

Herd/drove

Dove

Chick

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Dule

AKA columbary
murmuring=curr

Dotterel

Chick

Cock

Hen

Trip

Duck

Duckling

Drake

Duck

Brace/Team/Flock
Flush/Paddling

Duiker

Fawn

Buck

Doe

n/a

Eagle

Eaglet/fledgling

Male

Female

Aerie,
Convocation

Echidna

Puggle

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Eel

Elver
various growing stages: fausen, fawson, scaffing, snig, grig
larval stage=leptocephalus

Male

Female

Swarm

Eland

Calf

Buck/Bull

Doe/Cow

Herd

Elephant

Calf

Bull

Cow

Herd, Parade
Memory

Mating period and sexual peak in males=musth
Female used to decoy male=koomkie

Elk

Calf

Bull

Cow

Gang, Herd

Ferret

Kit

Hob
neutered=Gib

Jill, Gill
neutered=sprite

Business, fesnying, fastening

Normally solitary animals
sound=dook

Finch

Chick

Cock

Hen

Charm

Firefly

Glowworm

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Fish (general)

Fry, Alevin,
Fingerling

Male

Female

School/shoal/draft,nest

 Walleye Perch male=jack
Young of the sprat=brit

Flamingo

Chick

Cock

Hen

Stand, flamboyance

Fly

Maggot

Male

Female

Swarm/Business

Fox

Kit/cub/pup

Dog/todd/reynard

Vixen

Leash/Skulk, earth

Cry of fox = ganne
Home=lair,kennel
grey fox male-zorro

Frog

Tadpole, Polliwog, Froglet

Male

Female

Army


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