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The document provides a comprehensive list of male and female names for various animals, explaining the grammatical gender classification in English. It highlights how animals are referred to using masculine and feminine nouns, with examples including 'queen' for female ants and 'boar' for male pigs. This resource is useful for anyone seeking to understand animal gender terminology in English.

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50+ Male and Female Animal Names List - EnglishBix

The document provides a comprehensive list of male and female names for various animals, explaining the grammatical gender classification in English. It highlights how animals are referred to using masculine and feminine nouns, with examples including 'queen' for female ants and 'boar' for male pigs. This resource is useful for anyone seeking to understand animal gender terminology in English.

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50+ Male and Female Animal


Names List
Leave a Comment / Vocabulary / By Aishwarya Priya

In this article we’ll give you the list of animals with their male and female
version of names. This will give you a basic understanding of how animals are
named and will be of great help if you ever had a question like what is the
name of female dog ?, or what is the name of male cat ?

English is a versatile language and Grammatical gender is a system of noun


classification on the basis of sex and it has many different types. All the
animals come under common gender noun and therefore can be used to refer
either male or female .

If an animal is a male it is characterized using Masculine noun words while if


an animal is female it is are characterized using Feminine noun words.

List of Male and Female


Animal Names
Below is a list of common animal names along with the masculine and
feminine genders:

Animal Female Name / Feminine Male Name / Masculine


Gender Gender

ant queen / worker drone

antelope doe buck

bear sow / she-bear boar

camel cow bull

caribou doe buck

cat queen tom

chimpanzee empress blackback

chicken hen cock / rooster

coyote bitch dog

crab hen / jenny cock / jimmy


crocodile cow bull

deer doe stag / buck

dog bitch dog

donkey jenny jack

dragonfly queen king / drake

duck duck / hen drake

elephant cow bull

elk cow bull

falcon falcon tiercel

ferret gill / jill hob

finch hen cock

fox vixen dog

gerbil doe buck

giraffe cow bull

goat nanny / doe billy / buck

goose goose gander

guinea pig sow boar

hamster doe buck

hawk hen tiercel

hedgehog sow boar


hippopotamus cow bull

horse mare / dam stallion / stud

jellyfish sow boar

kangaroo flyer / doe / jill boomer / buck / jack

leopard leopardess leopard

lion lioness lion

lobster hen cock

mallard hen greenhead

mole sow boar

mouse doe buck

opossum jill jack

peafowl peahen peacock

partridge hen / chantelle cock

pig sow / gilt boar / barrow

rabbit doe / jill buck / jack

rat doe / cow buck / bull

red deer hind stag / hart

salmon hen cock

seahorse seamare seastallion

sheep ewe / dam ram / buck


swan pen cob

termite cow bull

tiger tigress tiger

turkey hen gobbler / stag / tom

walrus cow bull

whale cow bull

wolf bitch / she-wolf dog

wolverine angeline wolverine

zebra mare stallion

You can use the following image as a quick learning guide if you are teaching
kids.

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