List of animal names

"Young animal" redirects here. For other uses, see Young Animal. For names applied to people, see Animal epithet.
Mother sea otter with sleeping pup, Morro Bay, California

In the English language, many animals have different names depending on whether they are male, female, young, domesticated, or in groups.

The best-known source of many English words used for collective groupings of animals is The Book of Saint Albans, an essay on hunting published in 1486 and attributed to Juliana Berners.[1] Most terms used here may be found in common dictionaries and general information web sites.[2][3][4]

  1. ^ Woop Studios; Jay Sacher (2013), A Compendium of Collective Nouns: From an Armory of Aardvarks to a Zeal of Zebras, Chronicle Books, p. 9, ISBN 978-1-4521-2952-5, archived from the original on 2015-09-15, retrieved 2015-07-02
  2. ^ "What do you call a group of ...?". Oxford Dictionaries. Archived from the original on 2011-11-23. Retrieved 2011-12-13.
  3. ^ "Dictionary.com Animal Names". Archived from the original on 2007-11-14.
  4. ^ "Merriam Webster Dictionary". Archived from the original on 2017-09-22. Retrieved 2013-12-10.