List of Animal Sounds in English with Pictures • 7ESL (2025)

Animals communicate in various fascinating ways, and their sounds serve as a universal language understood across different species. This reference provides a detailed look at various animal sounds and their significance, aiming to boost your vocabulary and appreciation for these natural phenomena.

List of Animal Sounds

We will now look at a detailed list of the sounds which are made by animals, each one will be spelled out and its animal listed alongside it.

• A screechis made by a bat
• A growlis made by a bear
• A buzzis made by a bee
• A humis made by a bee
• A bleatis made by a lamb
• A bleatis made by a calf
• A gruntis made by a camel
• A mewis made by a cat
• A purris made by a cat
• A meowis made by a cat
• A moois made by a cow
• A lowis made by a cow
• A bellowis made by a bull
• A cluckis made by a chicken
• A cheepis made by a chick
• A screamis made by a chimpanzee
• A crowis made by a cock
• A cock-a-doodle-doois made by a rooster
• A chirpis made by a cricket
• A cawis made by a crow
• A barkis made by a dog
• A woofis made by a dog
• A clickis made by a dolphin
• A brayis made by a donkey
• A coois made by a dove
• A quackis made by a duck
• A trumpetis made by an elephant
• A yelpis made by a fox
• A croakis made by a frog
• A cackleis made by a goose
• A bleatis made by a goat
• A squeakis made by a mouse
• A growl is made by a hippo
• A oinkis made by a pig
• A neighis made by a horse
• A snortis made by a horse
• A whinnyis made by a horse
• A whisperis made by a man
• A whistleis made by a bird
• A laughis made by a hyena
• A chortleis made by a kangaroo
• A warbleis made by a bird
• A roaris made by a lion
• A chatteris made by a monkey
• A whoopis made by a monkey
• A screechis made by a monkey
• A whineis made by a mosquito
• A howl is made by a wolf
• A hootis made by an owl
• A shriekis made by an owl
• A gruntis made by a pig
• A snortis made by a pig
• A squeakis made by a rabbit
• A croakis made by a toad
• A barkis made by a seal
• A gobbleis made by a turkey
• A cryis made by a wolf
• A squarkis made by a parrot

Animal Sounds Examples

The Use of Animal Sounds in a Sentence

Now we are going to take a look at how theseanimal soundswould look in a sentence. Here are some examples to demonstrate this.

• The monkeyschatteredin the jungle.
• The forest was full of the sound of thetwitteringof the birds.
• My catmeowsloudly when he is hungry.
• There were four dogs who were allbarkingangrily.
• In summer time, the garden is full of the sound of beesbuzzingand butterfliesfluttering.
• The king of the jungle, the lion, made an enormousroar.
• At night, the owlshootin the trees.
• The ratsqueakedwhen he ran through the room.
• On the Serengeti you will hear the hyenaslaughing.
• When I am on the farm, I always hear the pigsoinking.
• The lake is full of the sound ofcroakingfrogs.
• The turkey wandered around the yard sayinggobble.
• Thehowlof the wolf can be heard for miles.
• Every morning the rooster wakes us by cryingcock-a-doodle-do.
• I didn’t sleep last night as there was a flybuzzingaround the room.
• The dove softlycooed.
• I could hear the oncoming geesecacklingbefore I could see them.
• The cow in the field has a very quietmoo.
• My dog always goeswoofwhen he sees the postman coming down the path.
• The baby lambs werebleatingafter their mother.
• The bird spent the whole morningwhistlingin the treetops.
• The beargrowledas he walked out of his cave.
• My parrot is alwayssquarkingfirst thing in the morning and last thing at night.
• At Easter we see little chicks who make acheep cheepsound.
• The horseneighswhenever he sees us coming.
• My hamster makes asqueakingsound when he is asleep.
• The cat would sit on my lap andpurrloudly when I rubbed her belly.
• The dolphins were really intelligent they wouldclickwhenever the man asked them to.
• The cockcrowedas it strutted around the courtyard.
• Thechirpingof the crickets becomes unbearable in the summer evenings.
• The kittensmewedsoftly as they nuzzled against their mother.
• The tiger isgrowling.
• At the beach you can ride a donkey and hear thembrayingas they walk across the sand.
• The chickens arecluckingall day long.

A great example of the use of animal sounds in the English language is the children song ‘Old MacDonald‘ which is a rhyme designed to teach children the sounds which are made by animals. Even for adults, it is an effective way of remembering the correct sound words when thinking about animal sounds. The repetition of the animal sounds during the song is a great way to help remember them.