Wild animals

Basic vocabulary

The list of wild animals in the flashcards above is incomplete because it is restricted to familiar animals.

Vocabulary for male and female animals

The source of the list of male and female animal names used is a Term Coordination page published by the EU (we have not used the entire list). Note that the males and females of several species are given the same name—for instance, the females of elephants, rats, and whales may be referred to as cows(!)—so you will often have to add in the species—in our examples elephant cow or whale cow—if the context does not make clear which female animal you are talking about.

Vocabulary for animal babies

Many of these are taken from the ZooBorns website. A comment similar to that of the previous section applies to animal babies: since the terminology can be common across species, it is sometimes necessary to add the species name—for instance, the term calf usually means a baby bovine, so that when we mean that of another species, we would have to add information, such as in whale calf.

Spelling exercises

If you'd like to practice your spelling of terms introduced in this page, you can do so using the tool above.