Bird songs and calls
Bird vocalisations are usually divided into songs – longer, often complex phrases used to defend territory and…
79Mammal sounds
Mammals produce sound with their larynx, from deep roars and rumbles to squeaks, barks, howls and – in bats, w…
62Frog and toad calls
Male frogs and toads call by pushing air over their vocal cords into a vocal sac that acts as a resonator. Eac…
138Insect sounds
Insects make sound mechanically: crickets and grasshoppers rub a scraper against a file (stridulation), cicada…
5Reptile sounds
Most reptiles are fairly quiet, but crocodilians bellow and roar, geckos chirp and click, and tortoises hiss a…
1Fish sounds
Many fish are surprisingly noisy: drums and croakers vibrate their swim bladders with special muscles, produci…
5Other animal sounds
Animals produce sound in remarkably different ways – with vocal organs, by rubbing body parts together, or by …
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Horse
Equus ferus caballus
Lion
Panthera leo
Chicken
Gallus gallus domesticus
Pig
Sus scrofa domesticus
Wolf
Canis lupus
Donkey
Equus africanus asinus
Wild boar
Sus scrofa
Red fox
Vulpes vulpes
Cheetah
Acinonyx jubatus
House sparrow
Passer domesticus
Northern giraffe
Giraffa camelopardalis
Brown bear
Ursus arctos
Common raven
Corvus corax
Eurasian magpie
Pica pica
Mallard
Anas platyrhynchos
Eurasian hoopoe
Upupa epops
Jaguar
Panthera onca
Moose
Alces alces
Common blackbird
Turdus merula
Common quail
Coturnix coturnix
European badger
Meles meles
European robin
Erithacus rubecula
Common cuckoo
Cuculus canorus
Rock dove
Columba livia