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For Teachers: 3-5 Ohio Standards Covered

A new human baby is greeted by "it's a boy" or "it's a girl" but what about "it's a puggle"? Echidna babies are called puggles but other animals have unusual names, too.. Look up your favorites, alphabetically listed below, to learn the special terms used for youngsters, oldsters and groups.

ANIMAL	MALE	FEMALE	YOUNG	GROUP
Aardwolf	x	x	cub	x
Albatross	x	x	fledgling	x
Alligator	x	x	hatchling	x
Antelope	x	x	kid,calf	x
Ape	x	x	baby	x
Armadillo	x	x	pup	x
Badger	xx	x	pup, kit	x
Bat	x	x	pup	x
Bear	boar	sow	cub	sloth
Beaver	x	x	kit/cub/pup	colony
Birds (most)	x	x	hatchling/chick	x
Buffalo	x	x	calf	x
Camel	x	x	calf	x
Cat	tom	queen	kitten	x
Cattle	bull	cow	calf	herd
Cheetah	x	x	cub	x
Chicken	rooster	hen	chick/pullet/cockerel	flock
Coyote	x	x	pup/whelp	x
Cow	x	x	heifer	x
Deer	buck	doe	fawn	herd
Dingo	x	x	pup	x
Donkey	jack	jenny	foal	herd or drove
Dog	dog	bitch	pup	kennel
Dolphin	x	x	calf/pup	x
Dove	x	x	squab/chick	x
Duck	drake	duck	duckling	flock
Eagle	x	x	eaglet/fledgling	x
Echidna	x	x	puggle	x
Eel	x	x	elver	x
Elephant	bull	cow	calf	herd
Ferret	x	x	kit	x
Fowl (wild)	x	x	flapper	x
Fox	reynard	vixen	cub or pup	earth or skulk
Frog	x	x	polliwog/tadpole	x
Giraffe	bull	cow	calf	herd
Goat	buck or billy-goat	nanny or nanny-goat	kid	trip or herd
Goose	gander	goose	gosling	gaggle or flock
Grouse	x	x	cheeper	x
Guinea pig	x	x	pup	x
Hamster	x	x	pup	x
Hare	x	x	leveret	x
Hawk	x	x	chick	x
Hedgehog	x	x	piglet, pup	x
Hippopotamus	x	x	x	x
Hog	x	x	shoat/farrow, piglet	x
Horse	stallion or stud	mare or dam	foal/colt (m)/filly (f)	stable or herd
Hyena	x	x	cub	x
Jackal	x	x	pup	x
Jaguar	x	x	cub	x
Jellyfish	x	x	ephyna	x
Kangaroo	buck or boomer	doe or flyer	joey	mob, troop or herd
Koala	x	x	joey	x
Lion	lion or tom	lioness or she-lion	cub	pride
Llama	x	x	cria	x
Manatee	x	x	calf	x
Mink	x	x	kit	x
Mole	x	x	pup	x
Moose	x	x	calf	x
Mouse	x	x	pup, pinki	x
Mule	x	x	foal	x
Opossum	x	x	joey	x
Ostrich	cock	hen	chick	flock
Owl	x	x	owlet	x
Ox	x	x	stot/calf	x
Oyster	x	x	spat	x
Panda	x	x	cub	x
Partridge	x	x	cheeper	x
Peafowl	x	x	peachick	x
Penguin	x	x	chick	x
Pig	x	x	piglet/shoat farrow/suckling	x
Pigeon	x	x	squeaker,squab	x
Platypus	x	x	puggle	x
Prairie dog	x	x	pup	x
Pronghorn antelope	x	x	fawn	x
Puma (Cougar, mountain lion)	x	xx	kitten	x
Quail	x	x	cheeper, chick
Rabbit	buck	doe	kitten, leveret	colony or warren
Raccoon	x	x	kit, cub	x
Rhinoceros	bull	cow	calf	crash
Salmon	x	x	parr, smolt, grilse	x
Seal and sea lion	bull	cow	pup	rookery or herd
Serval	x	x	kitten	x
Shark	x	x	cub, pup	x
Sheep	buck or ram	ewe or dam	lamb or lambkin	flock or hurtle
Spider	x	x	spiderling	x
Swans	cob	pen	cygnet	herd
Swine	barrow or boar or hog	gilt or sow	pig or earrows or shoat	sounder
Tapir	x	x	calf	x
Tiger	tiger	tigress	cub/whelp
Turkey	x	x	poult	x
Walrus	bull	cow	cub	herd
Whale	bull	cow	calf	herd
Wolf	x	x	pup/whelp	x
Wombat	x	x	joey	x
Yak	x	x	calf	x
Zebra	stallion	mare	colt/foal (m)/filly(f)	herd