Q.

We know about kits, cubs, calves, chicks, pups, but what are some less common names for baby animals?

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A.

Alligator: hatchling
Ant: antling
Alpaca: cria
Baboon: infant
Boar: shoat
Cicada: nymph
Cod: codling
Cormorant: shaglet
Echidna: puggle
Goat or sheep: yeanling
Grasshopper: nymph
Hare: leveret
Hedgehog: piglet

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Jellyfish: ephrya
Llama: cria
Newt: eft
Otter: whelp
Owl: owlet, fledgling
Oyster: spat
Partridge: cheeper
Platypus: puggle
Porcupine: porcupette
Puffin: puffling
Shrew: shrewlet
Swan: cygnet, flapper
Turkey: poult
Turtle: hatchling

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