Names for Groups of Animals

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.

1. A congregation of alligators
2. A shrewdness of apes
3. A battery of barracudas
4. A sleuth of bears
5. An obstinancy of buffalo (alternate term for herd)
6. A bellowing of bullfinches
7. A flutter of butterflies
8. A wake of buzzards
9. An army of caterpillars
10. A clutter of cats
11. A coalition of cheetahs
12. A quiver of cobras
13. An intrusion of cockroaches
14. A lap of cod
15. A gulp of cormorants
16. A kine of cows
17. A band of coyotes
18. A cast of crabs
19. A seige of cranes
20. A bask of crocodiles
21. A murder of crows
22. A pod of dolphins
23. A drove of donkeys
24. An arc of doves
25. A convocation of eagles
26. A mob of emus
27. A cast of falcons
28. A business of ferrets
29. A charm of finches
30. A flamboyance of flamingoes
31. An army of frogs
32. A leash of foxes
33. A gaggle of geese
34. A horde of gerbils or hamsters
35. An implausibility of gnus
36. A tribe of goats
37. A glint of goldfish
38. A troop of gorillas
39. A cloud of grasshoppers
40. A muddle of guinea pigs
41. A confusion of guinea fowl
42. An array of hedgehogs
43. A bloat of hippotamuses
44. A cackle of hyenas
45. A party of jays
46. A smack of jellyfish
47. A kindle of kittens
48. A cling of koalas
49. A deceit of lapwings
50. An exaltation of larks
51. A leap of leopards
52. A flock of lice
53. A pride of lions
54. A lounge of lizards
55. A plague of locusts
56. A tiding of magpies
57. A brace of mallards
58. A richness of martens
59. A mischief of mice
60. A bite of midges
61. A shoal of minnows
62. A labour of moles
63. A scourge of mosquitos
64. A watch of nightingales
65. A romp of otters
66. A parliament of owls
67. A bamboo of pandas
68. A pandemonium of parrots
69. A covey of partridges
70. A muster of peacocks
71. A pod pf pelicans
72. A rookery of penguins
73. A drift of pigs
74. A puddle of platypuses
75. A chine of polecats
76. A string of ponies
77. A coterie of prairie dogs
78. A covey of ptarmigans
79. A gaze of raccoons
80. A rhumba of rattlesnakes
81. An unkindness of ravens
82. A crash of rhinoceroses
83. A bevy of roebucks
84. A hill of ruffs
85. A run of salmon
86. A purse of sand dollars
87. A fling of sandpipers
88. A family of sardines
89. A wreck of seabirds
90. A constellations of sea stars
91. A vagrant of sea urchins
92. A sluthe of servals
93. A shiver of sharks
94. A surfeit of skunks
95. An excargatoire of snails
96. A host of sparrows
97. A cluster of spiders
98. A scurry of squirrels
99. A whisker of shrews
100. A murmuration or chattering of starlings
101. A fever of stingrays
102. A muster of storks
103. A flight of swallows
104. A mutation of thrush
105. A streak of tigers
106. A knot of toads
107. A hover of trout
108. A rafter or posse of turkeys
109. A bale of turtles
110. A pitying of turtle doves
111. A generation of vipers
112. A venue of vultures
113. A mob of wallaby
114. A gang of weasels
115. A pod of wales
116. A destruction of wild cats
117. A plump of waterfowl
118. A wisdom of wombats
119. A descent of woodpeckers
120. A herd or zeal of zebras

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