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gender noun

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Question
what do you call to a spicifically female bird, fish, goat, pig and lion???same as the male bird, fish, goat, pig, lion?

Answer
Hello i'll try the best I can here some I'm sure of others not so sure. A female bird is a Hen, A male bird is a Cock thats the same in parrots/quail/chickens.... ducks and geese are something else, male ducks are Drakes. Fish are just called males and females thats pet fish or fish we eat. I know nothing of large aqutic mamalls like whales. Goats I don't know I'm sorry. Pigs the males are called Boars and the females are Called Sows. A Female lion is called a Lionness males I am not sure but are reffered to as the King of the jungle a group of lions is called a pride I know for sure.