Animal Noises

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There are many common animals on the planet, and they all have a unique noise that they make. Learning to differentiate between the noises can also help learn why an animal makes the noise it does. You can listen to a few of them at Phonedog and Amazing sounds. To learn more about animal noises, check out ABCTeach and Wikipedia.

Following are a list of common animals, and the noises that they make.

Alligator: chirping and hissing

Bats: high-pitched, squeals and whispers- humans cannot hear

Bears: growl

Bees: buzz

Beetle: drone or buzz

Birds: tweet and sing

Bottlenose Dolphin: moans, grunts, whistles

Bulls: bellow

Calves: bleat and bray

Canada goose: honk

Caribou-pant, grunt, bellow

Cats: purr and meow

Chickens: cackle

Cheetah: chirping, yips

Chimpanzees: laughter-like vocalizing

Cows: moo

Cuckoos: cuckoo

Deer: bell

Dogs: bark

Dolphin: click

Ducks: quack

Doves: coo

Eagles: scream

Elephants: trumpet

Falcons: chant

Fawn: bell

Flies: buzz

Foxes: bark, yelp, whine

Frogs: croak

Geese: honk, hiss

Giraffe: grunt

Guinea Pig: squeak

Hippopotamus: snort

Horses: neigh, whinny

Hyena: squeal, grunt, laughing noise

Koala bear: grunt

Lion: roar

Meer Kat: chur, barking

Mice: squeak

Otter: whistle, whine, hiss

Ostrich: drumming sound, clicking

Pigs: grunt, squeal

Rattlesnakes: hiss

Sheep: bleat

Sloth: kerflump

Tasmanian devil: barks, snort, growl

Tigers: roar

Turkeys: gobble

Woodpecker: loud and soft pecking

Zebra: brae

To hear small sound bites and free animal sound effects, you can visit a variety of websites, including Nature Songs, Free Sound Effects, Wavlist, Brandens and E-Vet. To listen to many different recordings of both common animals and animals in the wild, visit Stonewashed and Grsites.