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Free Animal Sound Effects for Videos, Education, and Games

Dogs, cats, horses, snakes, otters, whales and locusts. Fantasy creatures and other animal calls too.

98 free animals sounds

Get 39 of them in one ZIP ↓

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Get the Animals kit

The top 39 of the 98 sounds on this page in one ZIP file (40 at most, and none over 2 minutes). It comes with a list of every sound and the license, and the file names have no spaces, so they drop right into a game engine or an editor.

Free for personal and commercial use, no sign-up. MP3 is the smallest. Want trimmed and mastered 24-bit WAVs? See the sound packs.

More animals sounds, A–Z

About these animals sounds

A nature scene, an animation or a game feels more alive with animal sounds in it. There are whale calls, locust swarms and fantasy creatures like phoenixes. Birds and frogs are over in the Nature category.

Every sound here is free for personal and commercial projects, with no credit required. Read the license.

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