Mammals and marsupials
A variety of mammalian babies are known as cubs, kits, pups or whelps, especially in carnivorous or omnivorous species. Many young plant-eating ungulates, meanwhile, go by names like fawn or calf, although the latter term is also used for marine mammals like dolphins, manatees and whales.
We'll list a few of those here, focusing on less famous examples, along with even more distinctive names for other baby mammals, marsupials and monotremes:
- Aardvark: cub or calf
- Alpaca, llama, guanaco or vicuña: cria
- Anteater: pup
- Ape: infant
- Bat: pup
- Beaver: kitten or kit
- Binturong: pup or kitten
- Boar: shoat, boarlet or piglet
- Coyote: pup or whelp
- Echidna: puggle
- Fox: pup, cub or kit
- Goat: kid
Birds
Young birds are broadly known as chicks, a general term that applies to any bird. There are also more specific words for various stages of a chick's development, though — a hatchling is a bird that recently hatched, a nestling is a one that isn't ready to leave the nest, and a fledgling is one that's newly ready for flight.
You can't go wrong calling any young bird a chick, but if you'd like to be as precise as possible, here are a few other terms for particular types of chicks:
- Dove or pigeon: squab or squeaker
- Duck: duckling
- Eagle: eaglet
- Falcon or hawk: eyas
- Goose: gosling
- Guineafowl: keet
- Owl: owlet
Reptiles and amphibians
As with birds and other egg-laying animals, newborn reptiles and amphibians are given the default label of hatchling. They don't have nearly as many specific baby names as birds or mammals, although there are a few notable standouts:
- Frog or toad: tadpole or polliwog
- Newt: eft
- Snake: snakelet
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