Names of Animals in French

Finding names of animals in French is not particularly difficult if you know where to look! Learning animal names is generally taught when the class is working on themes like "the farm" or something similar.

Whether you are looking for the names of animals in French for a project for school or just to complete a theme that you are studying in French, the lists below will give you more animals than you can remember!

Here are a few "animals" that you'll find crawling around on the ground. While not everything on this list is a true animal, it's vocabulary that you will have to learn eventually. There are many idiomatic expressions that include references to both la fourmi and le cafard.

• Ant - la fourmi
• Bee - l'abeille
• Butterfly - le papillon
• Cockroach - le cafard
• Snail - l'escargot
• Spider - l'araignée

La ferme is a particularly popular learning theme with preschool.

• Chicken - le poulet
• Cow - la vache
• Donkey - l'âne
• Duck - le canard
• Goat - la chèvre
• Goose - l'oie
• Horse - le cheval
• Mouse - la souris
• Mule - la mule
• Pig - le cochon
• Sheep - le mouton

Teach your students the names for their pets so that they can talk about their entire family:

• Cat - le chat
• Dog - le chien
• Ferrett - le furet
• Goldfish - le poisson rouge
• Gerbil - la gerbille
• Guinea pig - le cochon d'Inde
• Hamster - le hamster
• Llama - le lama
• Parrot - le perroquet

Another popular theme is studying the forest.

• Antelope - l'antilope
• Badger - le blaireau
• Bat - la chauve-souris
• Bear - l'ours
• Beaver - le castor
• Bird - l'oiseau
• Deer - le cerf
• Elk - l'élan
• Fox - le renard
• Moose - l'orignal
• Otter - la loutre
• Owl - le hibou
• Porcupine - le porc-épic
• Rabbit - le lapin
• Raccoon - le raton-laveur
• Ram - le bélier
• Squirrel - l'écureil
• Wolf - le loup

You can incorporate a study on reptiles while you're also studying Francophone countries where some of these more exotic creatures live.

• Alligator - l'alligator
• Crocodile - le crocodile
• Frog - la grenouille
• Lizard - le lézard
• Snake - le serpent
• Toad - le crapaud
• Turtle - la tortue

Who doesn't love a trip to the zoo? Make a field trip extra productive with these great vocabulary words.

• Anteater - le fourmilier
• Ape - le singe
• Baboon - le babouin
• Buffalo - le buffle
• Camel - le chameau
• Cheetah - le cheetah
• Coyote - le coyote
• Elephant - l'éléphant
• Gazelle - la gazelle
• Girafe - la girafe
• Gorilla - la gorille
• Hippopotamus - la hippopatamus
• Jaguar - le jaguar
• Kangaroo - la kangourou
• Leopard - le léopard
• Lion - le lion
• Monkey - le singe
• Ostrich - l'autruche
• Panda - le panda
• Panther - le panthère
• Rhinoceros - le rhinocéros
• Tiger - le tigre
• Zebra - le zèbre

While you're studying things that are at the ocean, make sure and make your bulletin boards and worksheets bilingual.

• Crab - le crabe
• Dolphin - le dauphin
• Eel - l'anguille
• Jellyfish - la méduse
• Lobster - le homard
• Manatee - le lamantin
• Pelican - le pélican
• Penguin - le pingouin
• Sea Lion - l'otarie
• Shark - le requin
• Walrus - le morse
• Whale - la baleine

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