Now You Know

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A group of _____, is a(n)______.

• Tigers (ambush)

• Owls (parliament)

• Snakes (knot)

• Dogs (pack)

• Cats (clutter)

• Crows (murder)

• Apes: a shrewdness

• Baboons: a troop

• Badgers: a cete

• Bass: a shoal

• Bats: a colony, cloud or cauldron

• Bears: a sloth or sleuth; Cubs: a litter

• Beavers: a colony

• Bees: a swarm

• Boar: a sounder

• Buffalo: a gang or obstinacy

• Camels: a caravan

• Caterpillars: an army

• Cats: a clowder, glaring, pounce, nuisance or clutter; Kittens: a litter or kindle; Wild cats: a destruction

• Cattle: a herd or drove

• Cheetahs: a coalition

• Chickens: a brood or peep; Chicks: a clutch or chattering

• Clams: a bed

• Cobras: a quiver

• Colts: a rag

• Cows: a kine, drove, herd or fold; twelve or more cows are a flink

• Coyotes: a band

• Cranes: a sedge

• Crocodiles: a float or bask

• Crows: a murder

• Deer: a herd

• Dogs: a pack or cowardice; Puppies: a litter

• Dolphins: a pod

• Donkeys: a drove

• Doves: a dule

• Ducks: a brace, paddling or team

• Eagles: a convocation

• Elephants: a herd or parade

• Elk: a gang or herd

• Emus: a mob

• Falcons: a cast

• Ferrets: a business or fesnyng

• Finches: a charm

• Fish: a school, shoal, run, haul or catch

• Flamingos: a stand or flamboyance

• Flies: a swarm, hatch or business

• Foxes: a skulk or leash

• Frogs: an army or a colony

• Geese: a gaggle or flock, a skein when in flight

• Giraffes: a tower

• Gnats: a cloud or horde

• Goats: a herd, tribe or trip

• Goldfinches: a charm

• Goldfish: a troubling

• Gorillas: a band

• Grasshoppers: a cloud

• Greyhounds: a leach

• Hares: a down or husk

• Hawks: a cast or kettle

• Hippopotami: a bloat or thunder

• Hogs: a drift or parcel

• Horses: a team or harras

• Hounds: a pack, mute or cry

• Hyenas: a cackle

• Jaguars: a shadow

• Jellyfish: a smack or brood

• Kangaroos: a troop or mob

• Larks: an ascension or exaltation

• Lemurs: a conspiracy

• Leopards: a leap

• Lice: a flock

• Lions: a pride

• Locust: a plague or cloud

• Magpies: a tiding or tittering

• Mallards: a sord

• Manatees: an aggregation

• Mares: a stud

• Martens: a richness

• Minnows: a steam

• Moles: a labor

• Monkeys: a barrel, cartload or troop

• Mules: a pack, barren or span

• Nightingales: a watch

• Otters: a family, romp or raft

• Owls: a parliament

• Oxen: a team or yoke

• Oysters: a bed

• Parrots: a pandemonium or company

• Partridges: a covey

• Peacocks: a muster or ostentation

• Penguins: a colony

• Pheasants: a nest, nide or bouquet

• Pigeons: a flock or flights

• Pigs: a drift or drove (younger pigs), or a sounder, litter or team (older pigs)

• Ponies: a string

• Porcupines: a prickle

• Rabbits: a colony or warren

• Raccoons: a gaze

• Rats: a colony, pack, swarm or mischief

• Rattlesnakes: a rhumba

• Ravens: an unkindness

• Rhinoceroses: a crash

• Sharks: a shiver

• Sheep: a drove or flock

• Skunks: a stench

• Snakes: a nest or knot

• Sparrows: a host

• Squirrels: a dray or scurry

• Starlings: a murmuration

• Stingrays: a fever

• Storks: a mustering

• Swans: a bevy or lamentation, a wedge when in flight 

• Tigers: an ambush or a streak

• Toads: a knot or knab

• Trout: a hover

• Turkeys: a gang, posse or rafter

• Turtles: a bale or nest

• Vultures: a venue

• Wasps: a pledge

• Weasels: a colony, gang or pack

• Whales: a pod, school or gam

• Wolves: a pack or route

• Wombats: a wisdom

• Woodpeckers: a descent

• Zebras: a dealer

Wow! Who knew? I feel very well informed now. 

Thanks,

Nudge