How good is your english? Animal sound verbs

Well, I was writing my post Free Facial Recognition Software: LemonScreen, and I mentioned about a horse's sound, I could not figure out the proper verb, so I had to google a little. Guess what I came up with? A list of animal sound verbs. There were quite some verbs of sound in that list of which I am not sure were emitted by what type of animals, so I figure I could find out what I did not know and share it in my blog.

However, don't expect to get it easily. I want to play a game (watched Saw, anyone?). Below is a table of the verbs of sound on the first column and the second column will contain the animal type that makes that particular sound. You begin to think, where's the game? What's the catch in the table? The catch is the animal type text will be the same colour background as this site and it will seems to be invisible to your eyes. Now, I want you to try to guess the animal first, and if you can't, only then are you allowed to highlight the animal text to solve the puzzle. Sounds fun? (with pun deliberately intended!). One last tip before you jump right into it: at any instance, do not guess man, right, you may proceed then...

verb of sound	animal producing the sound
cuckoo	bird
crow	cock
grunt	pig
pipe	bird
drone	bee
cheep	bird
coo	bird
yap	dog
twitter	bird
caw	crow
neigh	horse
whinney	horse
honk	goose
growl	dog
hiss	snake
trumpet	elephant
bray	donkey
bleat	sheep
low	cattle
mew	cat
chirrup	bird
buzz	insect
bleat	calves
fink	chaffinch
bell	deer
click	dolphin
quack	duck
chant	falcon
dook	ferret
croak	frog
chirp	grasshopper
laugh	hyena
gibber	monkey
talk	parrot
gobble	turkey
ort	walrus
sing	whales
howl	wolves

Finished? Hope you are not bored by this task... Anyway, I also found a wonderful page listing the verbs of sounds made by animals in various languages (German, French, Russian, Spanish, etc.) at Derek Abbott's Animal Noise Page. Go read your heart's content out!Lastly, no discussions about animal sound will be complete without mentioning of the Old McDonald and his favorite classic song - "Old McDonald Had a Farm."

Come on now, don't be shy, let's sing together:

Old MacDonald had a farm,
E-I-E-I-O
And on his farm he had some ducks,
E-I-E-I-O
With a quack, quack, here,
And a quack, quack, there,
Here a quack, there a quack,
Everywhere a quack, quack,
Old MacDonald had a farm,
E-I-E-I-O

Yeah, very good! Keep on singing, I'm gonna pay Mr. Old McDonald a little visit. I will check on you guys later. You have 1 minute 30 seconds (awww, I have Saw tendency now, figure I should go to sleep). Hope you had fun here...

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