Baby Animal Word Search Printable

Baby animal names on one sheet with its answer key, and a clue that matches each baby to its parent.

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Baby Animal Word Search

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BRYYFPUJOEYNETI

AWAKINTUCNCWRBV

FMRIOUEHNRFNPWG

LESTCHICKCUBIHY

VLPTALSHEAEIGAA

OSRTTADPOLEJLTB

OLEQEMSEOFCQECN

SRZYRBABWEDXTHN

CZYEPIDELEUNULJ

RPGNIPUSEFCFLIC

EHLILNIWTOKATNY

IHBRLHSHAALWQGG

RRTTAIGOSLINGMN

ULLTRNRMRUNOERE

ERMPEWOEGRGLDHT

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CalfCALF
FoalFOAL
LambLAMB
PigletPIGLET
CubCUB
FawnFAWN
JoeyJOEY
KitKIT
HatchlingHATCHLING
ChickCHICK
DucklingDUCKLING
GoslingGOSLING
CygnetCYGNET
OwletOWLET
TadpoleTADPOLE
CaterpillarCATERPILLAR

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Answer key: Baby Animal Word Search

BRYYFPUJOEYNETI

AWAKINTUCNCWRBV

FMRIOUEHNRFNPWG

LESTCHICKCUBIHY

VLPTALSHEAEIGAA

OSRTTADPOLEJLTB

OLEQEMSEOFCQECN

SRZYRBABWEDXTHN

CZYEPIDELEUNULJ

RPGNIPUSEFCFLIC

EHLILNIWTOKATNY

IHBRLHSHAALWQGG

RRTTAIGOSLINGMN

ULLTRNRMRUNOERE

ERMPEWOEGRGLDHT

CALF, FOAL, LAMB, PIGLET, CUB, FAWN, JOEY, KIT, HATCHLING, CHICK, DUCKLING, GOSLING, CYGNET, OWLET, TADPOLE, CATERPILLAR

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Farm Babies 11

Bunny An informal name for a rabbit, above all a young one.
Calf A young cow or bull; baby elephants, whales, giraffes and camels share the name.
Colt A young male horse or zebra.
Cria A young llama or alpaca.
Filly A young female horse or zebra.
Foal A horse up to one year old; young donkeys and zebras share the name.
Kid A young goat; its mother is a nanny or doe and its father a billy or buck.
Lamb A young sheep; its mother is a ewe and its father a ram.
Piglet A young pig; its mother is a sow and its father a boar.
Shoat A young pig that has just stopped drinking its mother's milk.
Yearling An animal in its second year; a foal becomes one when it turns one year old.

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Wild Animal Babies 13

Cub A young bear, lion, tiger, wolf or fox; a mother bear is a sow and a mother lion a lioness.
Fawn A young deer; its mother is a doe or hind and its father a buck or stag.
Hatchling An animal just out of its egg: a young turtle, lizard, crocodile or alligator, for example.
Hoglet A baby hedgehog.
Infant The word for a young monkey, gorilla, baboon or lemur, and for a human baby.
Joey A young kangaroo, koala, wallaby, wombat or opossum; it grows in its mother's pouch.
Kit A young fox, beaver, ferret, skunk or rabbit.
Leveret A hare less than one year old.
Porcupette A baby porcupine.
Puggle A baby echidna, one of the few mammals that hatch from eggs.
Pup A young seal, bat, otter or mouse; dogs and wolves have them too.
Snakelet A baby snake.
Whelp A name for the young of a dog, wolf, otter or tiger.

Baby Birds 12

Chick A newly hatched bird, above all on a poultry farm, where its mother is a hen and its father a rooster.
Cygnet A young swan; its mother is a pen and its father a cob.
Duckling A young duck; its father is a drake.
Eaglet A young eagle.
Eyas A young hawk or falcon that has not yet left the nest.
Fledgling A young bird that has just grown its flight feathers but still depends on its parents.
Gosling A young goose; its father is a gander.
Keet A young guinea fowl.
Owlet The name for a baby owl.
Poult A young turkey; its mother is a hen and its father a tom or gobbler.
Squab A young pigeon or dove.
Squeaker An informal name for a young pigeon.

Pond, Sea and Bug Babies 16

Caterpillar The larva that grows into a butterfly or a moth.
Codling A young, small cod.
Eft A young newt in the stage when it lives on land.
Elver A young eel.
Fingerling A young fish that has grown scales and working fins.
Froglet A frog that has only just grown out of its tadpole stage.
Fry Young fish that have grown enough to feed themselves.
Grub The worm-like larva of a beetle.
Larva The young form of an insect or other animal that looks very different from the adult.
Nymph A young insect, such as a grasshopper, that already looks much like the adult but has no wings yet.
Spat A young oyster that has just settled on a hard surface.
Spiderling A baby spider.
Tadpole A young frog or toad that lives in water, with gills, a tail and at first no legs.
Toadlet A young toad.
Turtlet An informal name for a baby turtle.
Wriggler A name for the larva of a mosquito.

Animal Mothers and Fathers 22

Bull A male elephant, whale, giraffe, seal or moose, as well as the male of cattle.
Cob A male swan.
Cow A female elephant, whale, giraffe, seal or moose, as well as the mother of a farm calf.
Dam A breeder's word for the mother of a foal, lamb or other young animal.
Doe A female deer, rabbit, hare, goat or kangaroo.
Ewe A female sheep; a lamb's mother.
Hen A female chicken, duck, turkey or pigeon.
Hind A female deer, especially a red deer.
Hob A male ferret.
Jenny A female donkey.
Lioness A female lion; a cub's mother.
Mare An adult female horse; a foal's mother.
Nanny A female goat; a kid's mother.
Pen A female swan.
Queen A female cat old enough to have young; also the egg-laying female in a colony of bees or ants.
Sire A breeder's word for an animal's father.
Sow A female pig, bear or badger.
Stag An adult male deer.
Stallion An adult male horse.
Tigress A female tiger.
Tom A male cat or a male turkey.
Vixen A mother fox; her young are cubs, kits or pups.

Nests, Dens and Growing Up 18

Altricial Said of young that are born helpless and need their parents' care, like kittens.
Brood A group of young birds hatched at one time by the same mother.
Burrow A tunnel or hole dug by an animal for a home; a rabbit's joins others to make a warren.
Den A lair, often underground, where a mother animal gives birth and cares for her young.
Drey A squirrel's nest of leaves and twigs, usually in the fork of a tall tree.
Egg What chicks, tadpoles, hatchlings and caterpillars all start life inside.
Eyrie The nest of an eagle or other bird of prey.
Fledge To grow the feathers needed for flying.
Litter All the young born to one mother at one time, as with puppies or kittens.
Lodge A beaver family's shelter of branches and mud, usually built in a pond.
Nest The place a bird builds or chooses to lay its eggs and raise its young.
Nursery A place where young animals are born or raised.
Pouch The pocket of skin on a mother kangaroo or koala where her joey feeds and grows.
Precocial Said of young that are well developed and able to move about from the moment of birth or hatching.
Rookery A colony where birds, seals or sea lions gather to raise their young.
Sett A badger's den, a network of tunnels with many entrances.
Warren A network of connected burrows dug by rabbits.
Wean To move a young mammal from its mother's milk to other food.

How this list was compiled: 92 words in six lists: baby animals of the farm, the wild, the birds, and ponds, seas and bug life, then their mothers and fathers and their nests and dens. Each name was checked on October 9, 2026 against English Wikipedia's List of animal names (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animal_names, CC BY-SA 4.0) and against English Wiktionary (https://en.wiktionary.org/). Licence: own work

How it works

This baby animal word search printable opens on 16 names, among them Calf, Cub, Foal, Fawn, Joey, Kit and Duckling, hidden across and down only. Behind that grid wait 92 words in six lists.

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Farm babies, wild babies and baby birds

Farm Babies, under Start from a list, has 11 names, from Calf and Lamb to Cria, a young llama or alpaca. Wild Animal Babies has 13, such as Joey, Leveret and Puggle, a baby echidna. Baby Birds has 12, from Chick and Duckling to Cygnet and Eyas.

Tadpoles, mothers and fathers, nests and dens

Pond, Sea and Bug Babies has 16 names, among them Tadpole, Elver, Nymph and Spiderling. Animal Mothers and Fathers has 22, so a class can pair Foal with Mare, Lamb with Ewe, and Kid with Nanny. Nests, Dens and Growing Up adds 18 words, from Burrow and Pouch to Drey.

In More options, tick Show clues, not words and Piglet prints as "A young pig; its mother is a sow and its father a boar."
Easy Baby Animals has 57 words of 3 to 5 letters, such as Cub, Kid, Pup and Fawn.

Questions and answers

What are baby animals called?

Many share a name: a calf can be a young cow, elephant, whale or giraffe, and a cub a young bear, lion, tiger, wolf or fox. Others have a name of their own, such as joey, cygnet, leveret and puggle.

What is a baby kangaroo called?

A joey. Koalas, wallabies, wombats and opossums have joeys too. A joey is born undeveloped, crawls into its mother's pouch and stays there to feed and grow.

What is a baby swan called?

A cygnet. The mother swan is a pen and the father a cob, and all three words are in the lists on this page.

What is a baby dog called?

A puppy, or a pup or a whelp. Pup and Whelp are in these lists. Puppy and Kitten are not, because PUP and KIT would be hidden inside them; both are in the pet word search.

All 92 words

Farm Babies 11

Wild Animal Babies 13

Baby Birds 12

Pond, Sea and Bug Babies 16

Animal Mothers and Fathers 22

Nests, Dens and Growing Up 18

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