Ever wondered what to call a group of alligators, owls, pandas, skunks, or wombats? Here are the often-surprising names for many animal and insect groups.
- A congregation of alligators
- A shrewdness of apes
- A battery of barracudas
- A sleuth of bears
- An obstinancy of buffalo (alternate term for herd)
- A bellowing of bullfinches
- A flutter of butterflies
- A wake of buzzards
- An army of caterpillars
- A clutter of cats
- A coalition of cheetahs
- A quiver of cobras
- An intrusion of cockroaches
- A lap of cod
- A gulp of cormorants
- A kine of cows
- A band of coyotes
- A cast of crabs
- A seige of cranes
- A bask of crocodiles
- A murder of crows
- A pod of dolphins
- A drove of donkeys
- An arc of doves
- A convocation of eagles
- A mob of emus
- A cast of falcons
- A business of ferrets
- A charm of finches
- A flamboyance of flamingoes
- An army of frogs
- A leash of foxes
- A gaggle of geese
- A horde of gerbils or hamsters
- An implausibility of gnus
- A tribe of goats
- A glint of goldfish
- A troop of gorillas
- A cloud of grasshoppers
- A muddle of guinea pigs
- A confusion of guinea fowl
- An array of hedgehogs
- A bloat of hippotamuses
- A cackle of hyenas
- A party of jays
- A smack of jellyfish
- A kindle of kittens
- A cling of koalas
- A deceit of lapwings
- An exaltation of larks
- A leap of leopards
- A flock of lice
- A pride of lions
- A lounge of lizards
- A plague of locusts
- A tiding of magpies
- A brace of mallards
- A richness of martens
- A mischief of mice
- A bite of midges
- A shoal of minnows
- A labour of moles
- A scourge of mosquitos
- A watch of nightingales
- A romp of otters
- A parliament of owls
- A bamboo of pandas
- A pandemonium of parrots
- A covey of partridges
- A muster of peacocks
- A pod pf pelicans
- A rookery of penguins
- A drift of pigs
- A puddle of platypuses
- A chine of polecats
- A string of ponies
- A coterie of prairie dogs
- A covey of ptarmigans
- A gaze of raccoons
- A rhumba of rattlesnakes
- An unkindness of ravens
- A crash of rhinoceroses
- A bevy of roebucks
- A hill of ruffs
- A run of salmon
- A purse of sand dollars
- A fling of sandpipers
- A family of sardines
- A wreck of seabirds
- A constellations of sea stars
- A vagrant of sea urchins
- A sluthe of servals
- A shiver of sharks
- A surfeit of skunks
- An excargatoire of snails
- A host of sparrows
- A cluster of spiders
- A scurry of squirrels
- A whisker of shrews
- A murmuration or chattering of starlings
- A fever of stingrays
- A muster of storks
- A flight of swallows
- A mutation of thrush
- A streak of tigers
- A knot of toads
- A hover of trout
- A rafter or posse of turkeys
- A bale of turtles
- A pitying of turtle doves
- A generation of vipers
- A venue of vultures
- A mob of wallaby
- A gang of weasels
- A pod of wales
- A destruction of wild cats
- A plump of waterfowl
- A wisdom of wombats
- A descent of woodpeckers
- A herd or zeal of zebras
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