Hi Everyone, I am Niharika and thanks for clicking, you know when I was small the only
baby animals that I read about in my books in the school were like puppy you know, like
a dog’s baby is called a puppy, a cat’s baby is called a kitten and a lion’s or
tiger’s baby is called a cub. So these are the very common one’s that we kinda have an idea,
but in English we have some more baby animal names, you know what are they called? We are
not talking about a puppy, adorable kitten or a cub, we are gonna look at some new words
because we are learning English, it’s always good to know everything, right?
So, the very first thing that we gonna look at is 'Leveret',
now ‘Leveret’ is a young hare especially who is less than a year old, so
hare you know they are so cute, they are so adorable, but the baby hare is called a ‘Leveret’,
okay. So, next time you are talking about a baby hare you know what it's called right?
The next one 'Polliwog' now' ‘Polliwog' is a young frog or a young tadpole now specially a frog who
has not grown like a baby frog, who is not grown his legs yet. The word comes from a
very very old English dictionary where Poll means head and wiggle or wog means to wiggle,
you know.. the wiggly thing so that's what a frog which has a head but doesn't have legs
would king of wiggle right? so that's where the word comes from, polliwog. next one 'Kid'
now kid is the baby goat, now don't get confused because even human babies are called as kids,
kid is a slang word that is used for human babies, okay. Hey kid, what's up kid, its
a very , its a slang term used for a baby human baby, but baby goat is also called as
kid, okay. 'Smolt' well a baby salmon, salmon the fish very healthy good for skin, good
for eyes, so salmon the baby salmon is acalled as smolt, well it's a scottish word and probably
it's called as smolt the reason, because the baby salmon fish is like a little silver fish
and there is another silver fish which is called smelt. So, when I was reading about
this, So probably it is originated from or it's derived from the word smelt because smelt
is a silver fish and smolt that is the baby salmon resembles that fish a lot. So Smolt
is the word. Next one 'Hatch-ling, well hatch-ling is a young bird, reptile or fish. A young
reptile, fish or a bird who has just emerged from an egg. Many people get confused between
the words hatch-ling and fledging but remember hatchling is a young reptile or a fish or
a bird who is just emerged who is just come out of the egg recently, okay that's a hatchling
but the moment especially birds the moment they are ready to fly out of the nest or the
moment they grow feathers to fly they try to fly those young one's are called as fledgings,
okay so birds, young birds ready to fly. So, it's just kind of a process, thay first emerge
from the egg then they grow feathers on them and then they are ready to leave the nest,
so they are ready to fly, they are called as fledgings. The next one 'Cygnet', cygnet
is a baby swan, so the next time you see a baby swan whose really cute and adorable,
they are called as cygnets. Next one 'Colt' and 'Filly' , well colt and filly are the
words used for baby horse, now if it is a boy horse, if it's a male horse, baby male
horse then it's called as colt and if it's a baby female horse then it's called as a
Filly, filly the word itself is so cute, right? So are the baby horses, they are so adorable.
So, baby horse if it's a boy then it's colt and if it's a girl then it's filly, okay.
The next one ' Poult' , poult is baby turkey okay not a full grown turkey of course a full
bird is called a turkey, but the baby turkey is a called as the poult. And then the last
one 'Duckling' well you might have heard about this, we have children ryhmes also on ducklings
but duckling is baby duck. So, now you know what are the baby animals called, so it's
not just that your vocabulary is stuck to a puppy or kitten or calf or a cub, you know
more words, so start using them. Next time people are talking about baby animals, next
time people are talking about Horse, a Salmon or a Goat whatever , you know what the baby
animals are called, right? So, start using them , they are very easy and I will be back
with a new lesson, till then you take care.