Darbas anglų kalba. Gyvūnų vardų naudojimas lietuviškose ir angliškose metaforose. Zoomorfinės metaforos. Introduction. The subject of the work is the usage of the names of animals in English and Lithuanian languages. The aim of the work is to compare animal metaphors of English and Lithuanian languages in semantic aspect. The conception of the metaphor. The theory of traditional metaphor. Zoomorphic metaphors. The analysis of English and Lithuanian zoomorphic metaphors. Conclusions.