Interesting Words of Brutes

Here's a short collection of interesting words for animals with designations of sex, age, purpose from human animal's perspective.

• sire → male parent
• dam → female parent

  When did the tiger's young ones teach the dam?
  O, do not learn her wrath- she taught it thee;
  The milk thou suck'dst from her did turn to marble,
  Even at thy teat thou hadst thy tyranny.
  Yet every mother breeds not sons alike:
  [To CHIRON]  Do thou entreat her show a woman's pity.
    -- Shakespeare in Titus Andronicus ]

younglings:

• fledgling → bird
• gosling → goose
• kid → goat
• calf → cow,bull,elephant, whale..
• chick → chicken
• cub → bear, wolf, lion
• duckling → duck
• lamb → sheep
• fawn → deer
• leveret → hare
• puppy → pup, dog
• kitten → cat
• kit → cat, or fur bearing animal
• foal → horse
• joey → kangaroo
• pullet → domestic hen
• suckler → suckling calf or mammal
• whelp → mammal: dog, wolf. → Two of thy whelps, fell curs of bloody kind,/ Have here bereft my brother of his life. [Shakespeare in Titus Andronicus Titus Andronicus ]
• yearling → She looked straight into his eyes. “'Kill the yearlings,'” she said very gently. “'Kill the calves.'” [James Agee in A Mother's Tale]
• weanling → child or animal
• fatling → fattened youngling for sale
• poulard → A young hen that has been spayed for fattening.

• pony → any type of horse that is small when mature

Sex

• cock →
• rooster → Another Rooster in the Hen House -- from Joker of a dialogue in movie Batman (1989).
• capon → A male chicken castrated when young to improve the quality of its flesh for food
• gander → male goose
• hart → A male deer, especially a male red deer over five years old.

  To-morrow, and it please your Majesty
  To hunt the panther and the hart with me,
  With horn and hound we'll give your Grace bonjour.
    -- Shakespeare in “Titus Andronicus” Act 1 Scene 1

• ox → castrated adult bull
• bullock → castrated bull
• steer → A young ox, especially one castrated before sexual maturity and raised for beef
• stag → male deer.
• tomcat → male cat
• gib → male cat, esp. castrated

• filly → young female horse

• ewe → female sheep.
• hen → A female bird, especially adult domestic fowl; female octopus or lobster.
• bitch → A female canine animal, especially a dog
• cow → The mature female of other large animals, such as whales, elephants, or moose.
• doe → female deer, hare, goat, or kangaroo.
• sow → adult female hog, bear.
• mare → female horse

• cattle → cows, steers, bulls, oxen… bred for human curlinery pleasure.
• colt → young male horse
• stud → horses kept for breeding
• stallion → uncastrated male horse, esp. for breeding

• gelding → castrated animal, esp. male horse.
• geegee
• pinto → mottled horse
• puss,pussy → cat, women
• goose → female goose

• swine → pig, hog, boar
• bison,buffalo
• hare

some rare names

• jackal
• lemur
• dodo
• armadillo