| Animal | Young | Female | Male | Group | Adjective | Meat |
| Aardvark | cub | sow | boar | pack, grouping |
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| African buffalo | calf | cow | bull |
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| Alligator | hatchling | cow | bull | bask, congregation | eusuchian |
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| American Bison (Buffalo) | calf | cow | bull | herd | bovine, bubaline |
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| Ant | larva, pupa | queen, worker, gyne | drone | army, colony, nest, swarm, byke | formic, myrmecine |
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| Anteater | pup | sow | boar |
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| Antelope | calf | doe | buck | herd, cluster | alcelaphine, bubaline, antilopine |
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| Ape | infant | — | — | shrewdness, troop | simian |
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| Armadillo | pup, baby | sow | boar | herd, arrangement, pack | cingulatan |
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| Donkey | foal | jenny | jack | pace, band, drove, herd, coffle | asinine |
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| Baboon | infant | — |
| troop, tribe, flange, congress |
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| Badger | cub | sow | boar | cete, colony, sett, company | musteline |
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| Barracuda |
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| percesocine |
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| Bat | pup | — | — | colony, cloud, cauldron | pteropine, noctillionine |
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| Bear | cub | sow | boar | sleuth, sloth | ursine |
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| Beaver | kit, kitten, pup | — | — | family, colony |
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| Bee | larva, pupa | queen, worker | drone | grist, hive, swarm, colony | apic, apian, apiarian |
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| Bison | calf | cow | bull | herd, troop |
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| Boar | shoat |
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| sounder |
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| Bush baby | infant | queen | king, drake | congress, plot, gathering | galagine |
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| Butterfly | caterpillar |
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| rabble, flight, flutter, swarm | pieridine, pierine |
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| Camel | calf | cow | bull | flock,herd | camelid, cameline |
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| Cat | kitten, kit | molly, queen, pussy | tom | clowder, clan,cluster, clutter, glaring, kindle (young) | feline |
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| Cattle | calf | cow | bull | herd, drift, drove, mob | bovine, vituline (young), vaccine (female), taurine (male) | beef, veal |
| Chamois | calf | doe | bull | herd | rupicaprine |
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| Cheetah | cub |
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| coalition |
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| Chicken | chick, peep | hen, pullet | rooster, cock(-erel) | flock, brood | galline | poultry |
| Chimpanzee | infant | empress | blackback | troop, group, harem | panine |
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| Cobra |
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| quiver, has | elapid |
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| Cockroach | nymph |
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| intrusion | blattid |
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| Cormorant | chick |
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| gulp, flight |
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| Cougar | cub | cougress |
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| Coyote | cub, pup, whelp | bitch | dog | pack, train | canine |
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| Crab | — | hen | cock, jimmy | consortium | cancrine |
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| Crane | chick, colt |
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| herd, sedge, siege | alectorine |
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| Crocodile | hatchling | cow | bull | bask, nest, congregation, float | crocodilian |
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| Crow |
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| hover, murder, parcel | corvine |
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| Deer | calf, fawn | doe, hind, cow | buck, stag, bul, hart (red deer) | herd, mob, rangale | cervine, elaphine | venison, humble (organ meat) |
| Dog | whelp, pup, puppy | bitch, dam | dog, stud, sire | pack, litter (young), kennel, gang, legion | canine |
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| Dogfish |
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| troop |
| capeshark (USA), rock salmon (UK), flake (UK, AUS), huss (UK), rigg (UK), kahada (CAN) |
| Dolphin | calf, pup | cow | bull | team, school, pod, herd, team, alliance (male), party (female) | delphine |
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| Donkey/Ass | foal | jenny | jack | pace, band, drove, herd, coffle | asinine |
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| Dove | chick | hen | cock | cote, flight, dole, dule, piteousness, troop | columbine |
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| Dragonfly | nymph | queen | king, drake | cluster, flight | anisopteran |
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| Duck | duckling | duck, hen | drake | flock, brace, bunch (on water), team | anatine, fuliguline | poultry |
| Dugong | calf | cow | bull | herd | dugongine |
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| Eagle | eaglet | — | — | convocation, brood, aerie | aquiline |
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| Echidna | puggle | sow | boar | flock, parade, herd | tachyglossine |
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| Eel | leptocephalus (larva), elver (juvenile) | — | — | swarm, cell, pipe, array |
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| Eland | calf |
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| Elephant | calf | cow | bull | herd, flock, parade | Proboscine, Proboscidean |
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| Elephant seal | calf | cow | bull | herd, pack, arrangement | miroungan |
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| Elk (wapiti) | calf | cow | bull | gang, herd | cervine | venison |
| Falcon | eyass/eyas | falcon | tiercel | gross, battalion | acciptrine |
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| Ferret | kit | jill | hob | business, fesny(i)ng | musteline |
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| Finch | chick | hen | cock | quiver | fringilline |
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| Fly | maggot |
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| swarm, cloud, business | dipterous |
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| Fox | cub, kit, pup | vixen | tod, dog | leash, skulk | vulpine |
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| Frog | polliwog, tadpole, froglet | - | - | colony,bundle | ranine |
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| Gaur | calf | cow | bull | herd | bovine, gaurine | garabeef |
| Gazelle | calf | cow | bull | herd | gazelline |
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| Gerbil | pup | doe | buck | horde | cricetine |
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| Giant Panda | cub | sow | boar |
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| Giraffe | calf, giraffeling | cow | bull | herd, journey, stretch, tower | giraffine |
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| Gnu | calf |
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| Goat | kid | doe, doeling | buck, buckling | herd, mob, tribe | caprine, hircine | chevon, cabrito, mutton |
| Goose | gosling | goose | gander | gaggle (skein when in flight) | anatine, anserine | poultry |
| Gorilla | infant | — | blackback,
silverback | troop, group (band) | simian |
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| Guanaco | chulengo |
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| camelid |
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| Guinea fowl | chick | hen | cock | rasp | numidine | poultry |
| Guinea pig | pup | sow | boar | herd |
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| Gull | chick, scorrie | hen | cock | flock | larine |
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| Hamster | pup | doe | buck | horde, saladbowl | cricetid |
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| Hare | leveret | doe, jill | buck, jack | band, down | leverine, leporine |
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| Hawk | eyas | hen | tiercel | cast, kettle, boil | accipitrine, falconine |
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| Hedgehog | hoglet | sow | boar | array | erinaceine |
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| Heron |
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| siege |
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| Hippopotamus | calf | cow | bull | bloat, crash, herd, thunder | hippopotamine |
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| Hornet | larvae, pupae | queen | drone | swarm | vespine |
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| Horse | foal, colt (male), filly (female) | mare | stallion | herd, band, mob | equine |
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| Human | child, girl, boy | woman | man | people, band, crowd, clan, tribe, children (young) | human | long pig (See cannibalism) |
| Hyena | cub, pup, whelp | bitch | dog | clan, cackle | hyenine |
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| Iguana |
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| iguanine |
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| Jackal | pup |
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| pack |
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| Jaguar | cub |
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| shadow |
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| Jellyfish | planula, polyp, ephyra | sow | boar | smack, smuck, smuth ,fluther, bloom | scyphozoan |
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| Kangaroo | joey | flyer, doe | boomer, buck | mob, troop, court | macropodine |
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| Koala | joey | doe | buck | colony, population | phascolarctine |
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| Komodo dragon | hatchling, chick, calf | cow, hen | bull, cock | bank | varanine |
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| Kouprey | calf | cow | bull | herd | sauveline, bovine |
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| Kudu | calf |
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| Lark | chick | hen | cock | exaltation | alaudine |
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| Lemur | infant | princess | dictator | plot, congress, conspiracy | lemurine |
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| Leopard | cub | leopardess | leopard | leap, lepe | pardine |
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| Lion | cub | lioness | lion | pride | leonine |
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| Llama | cria | hembra | macho | herd, flock | camelid |
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| Loris | infant | doe | buck | colony, drove, harem, troop | lorisine |
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| Louse | nymph | — | — | colony, infestation, lice | pediculine |
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| Lobster |
| hen | cock | risk | homarine |
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| Lyrebird |
| hen | cock | musket | menurine |
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| Magpie | chick | hen | cock | tiding, tittering, gulp, murder, charm, flock | garruline |
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| Mallard | duckling | hen | drake | sord, lute, brace, puddling, flush | anatine | poultry |
| Manatee | calf | cow | bull | herd | manatine, sirenian |
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| Meerkat | pup | — | — | mob, clan, gang |
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| Mink | cub, kit | sow | boar |
| musteline |
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| Mole | pup | sow | boar | labour, company, movement | talpine |
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| Monkey | infant | — | — | troop, tribe | simian |
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| Moose | calf | cow | bull | herd | cervine | venison |
| Mouse | pinkie, kitten, pup | doe | buck | nest, colony, harvest, horde, mischief | murine | pinkie/fuzzie/hopper (pet food) |
| Mosquito | nymph, wriggler, tumbler | — | — | scourge, swarm, cloud | aedine, anopheline |
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| Mule | foal | molly, mare mule | john, horse mule | barren, pack, span, rake |
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| Nightingale | chick | hen | cock | watch, flock, route, match | philomelian |
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| Okapi | calf | cow | bull | herd | okapine |
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| Oryx | calf |
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| Ostrich | hatchling, chick |
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| flock, troop | ratite, struthious |
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| Otter | pup, whelp | sow | boar | romp, bevy, lodge, family, raft | musteline, lutrine |
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| Owl | owlet |
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| parliament, stare, wisdom | strigine |
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| Ox | calf | cow | bull | yoke, team, drove, herd, nye | bovine |
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| Oyster | spat |
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| bed, hive, cast, culch | ostracine | meat |
| Panther | cub | pantheress |
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| pantherine |
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| Partridge | chick | hen, chantelle | cock | covey | perdicine |
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| Peafowl | chick, peachick | peahen | peacock | party, muster, ostentation, pride | pavonine | poultry |
| Pelican | chick, nestling |
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| scoop, pod |
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| Penguin | chick, nestling |
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| spheniscine |
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| Pig | piglet, shoat/shote (a young, just weaned pig), gilt (female) | sow | boar | herd, drove,sounder, mob, drift | porcine, suilline | pork, ham, bacon |
| Pigeon | squab | hen | cock | flight, loft, flock, kit | pullastrine | squab |
| Pony | foal (either sex), colt (young, immature male), filly (young, immature female) | mare | stallion | herd, marmalade, string | equine |
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| Porcupine | pup | sow | boar | prickle | hystricine |
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| Quelea | chick | hen | cock | flock, swarm | queline |
| Rabbit | bunny, kit, kitten, nestling | doe, jill | buck, jack | warren, nest, colony, bevy, bury, drove, trace | leporine |
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| Raccoon | cub, kit | sow | boar | nursery, gaze | procyonine |
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| Rail | chick | reeve | ruff |
| ralline |
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| Ram | lamb | ewe | ram | flock | arietine, ovine | lamb and mutton |
| Rat | kitten, nestling, pinkie, pup | doe | buck | colony, horde, mischief, pack, plague, swarm | murine |
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| Raven |
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| unkindness congress, conspiracy, parliament, murder, crime | corvine |
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| Red deer | calf | hind | stag | herd |
| venison |
| Red panda | cub | sow | boar | pack | ailuirine |
| Reindeer (caribou) | calf | cow | bull | herd | rangiferine |
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| Rhinoceros | calf | cow | bull | crash, herd | ceratorhine |
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| Salamander | tadpole, salamanderling | sow | boar | maelstrom, band | caudatan |
| Sea lion | pup, beach weaner, calf | cow | bull | pod, colony, crash, flock, harem, bob, herd, rookery, team, hurdle | otarine |
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| Seal | pup | cow | bull | pod, rookery, bob, herd, harem | phocine |
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| Seahorse | seafoal | seamare | seastallion | shoal | hippocampal |
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| Seastar | chick | hen | cock | group, school | asteridan |
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| Shark | cub |
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| hogue | selachian |
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| Sheep | lamb | ewe | ram | drove, mob, flock, herd | ovine | lamb, mutton, hoggett, haggis (visceral meat) |
| Shrew | shrewlet, baby | sow | boar | colony, race, drove | soricine |
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| Skunk | kit | sow | boar |
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| Snail | - | n/a | n/a | hood | gastropodian | escargot |
| Snake | snakelet, hatchling (a newly-hatched snake) | — | — | pit, nest or bed | anguine, elapine, serpentine, viperine, ophidian |
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| Spider | spiderling |
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| cluster, clutter | arachnine, arachnoid |
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| Squid | chick | hen | cock | roundup, audience | tethidine | calamari |
| Squirrel | pup, kit, kitten | doe | buck | squad, dray, scurry | sciurine |
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| Swan | cygnet, flapper | pen | cob | flock | cygnine |
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| Tapir | calf | cow | bull | measure, herd | tapirine |
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| Tarsier | infant | doe | buck | herd, plot, harem, troop | tarsiine |
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| Tiger | cub | tigress | tiger | streak | tigrine |
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| Toad | tadpole, toadlet | — | — | knot, lump | ranine, batrachian |
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| Turkey | poult | hen | tom, gobbler, stag, jake (immature) | cream, rafter |
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| Turtle | hatchling | — | — | bale, dule | chelonian |
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| Vicuña | calf | cow, señorita | bull, señor | posse, herd | cameline |
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| Walrus | calf | cow | bull | herd, flock | odobenine |
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| Wasp | larva | queen, worker | drone | swarm, hive | vespine |
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| Water buffalo | calf | cow | bull | pot |
| carabeef |
| Weasel | pup | bitch, doe, jill | buck, dog, hub, jack | sneak, gang | musteline |
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| Whale | calf | cow | bull | gam, pod, herd, school | cetacean, cetaceous |
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| Wolf | cub, pup whelp | bitch, she-wolf | dog | pack | lupine |
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| Worm | wormlet |
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| bed, bunch, clew, squirm | helminthic, vermian |
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| Yak | calf | cow | bull | herd, cabinet |
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| Zebra | foal | mare | stallion | dazzle[citation needed], herd | zebrine, hippotigrine |
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