'99 strange collective animal names'
Mammals and marsupials Apes: a shrewdness Badgers: a cete Bats: a cauldron Bears: a sloth or sleuth Buffalo: a gang or obstinacy Cats: a clowder, pounce or glaring; for kittens: a kindle, litter or intrigue Dogs: a litter (puppies), pack (wild) or cowardice (curs) Donkeys: a pace Elephants: a parade Elk: a gang Ferrets: a business Fox: a leash, skulk or earth Giraffes: a tower Goats: a tribe or trip Gorillas: a band Hippopotamuses: a bloat or thunder Hyenas: a cackle Jaguars: a shadow Kangaroos: a troop or mob Lemurs: a conspiracy Leopards: a leap Lions: a pride or sawt Martens: a richness Moles: a labor Monkeys: a troop or barrel Mules: a pack, span or barren Otters: a romp Pigs: a drift, drove, sounder, team or passel Porcupines: a prickle Porpoises: a pod, school, herd or turmoil Rabbits: a colony, warren, nest, down, husk or herd (domestic only) Rhinoceroses: a crash Squirrels: a dray or scurry Tigers: an ambush or streak Whales: a pod, gam or herd Wolves: a pack, rout or route (when in movement) Birds
Bitterns: a sedge Buzzards: a wake Bobolinks: a chain Coots: a cover Cormorants: a gulp Crows: a murder or horde Dotterel: a trip Doves: a dule or pitying (specific to turtle doves) Ducks: a brace, team, flock (in flight), raft (on water), paddling or badling Eagles: a convocation Finches: a charm Flamingos: a stand Geese: a flock, gaggle (on the ground) or skein (in flight) Grouse: a pack (in late season) Hawks: a cast, kettle (in flight) or boil (two or more spiraling in air) Herons: a sedge or siege Jays: a party or scold Lapwings: a deceit Larks: an exaltation Mallards: a sord (in flight) or brace Magpies: a tiding, gulp, murder or charm Nightingales: a watch Owls: a parliament Parrots: a pandemonium or company Partridge: a covey Peacocks: an ostentation or muster Penguins: a colony, muster, parcel or rookery Pheasant: a nest, nide (a brood), nye or bouquet Plovers: a congregation or wing (in flight) Ptarmigans: a covey Rooks: a building Quail: a bevy or covey Ravens: an unkindness Snipe: a walk or wisp Sparrows: a host Starlings: a murmuration Storks: a mustering Swans: a bevy, game or wedge (in flight) Teal: a spring Turkeys: a rafter or gang Woodcocks: a fall Woodpeckers: a descent Reptiles and amphibians
Cobras: a quiver Crocodiles: a bask Frogs: an army Toads: a knot Turtles: a bale or nest Salamanders: a maelstrom Snakes, vipers: a nest Fish
Fish in general: a draft, nest, run, school or shoal Herring: an army Sharks: a shiver Trout: a hover Invertebrates
Bees: a grist, hive or swarm Caterpillars: an army Clams: a bed Crabs: a consortium Cockroaches: an intrusion Flies: a business Grasshoppers: a cloud Jellyfish: a bloom, fluther or smack Lobsters: a risk Oysters: a bed Snails: a hood Squid: an audience From: mother nature network article '99 strange collective animal names' <MNN Sources [Via U.S. Geological Survey, Oxford Dictionaries]
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