{"id":8,"date":"2010-02-03T00:03:46","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T00:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/animals\/?p=8"},"modified":"2016-10-21T11:26:30","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T11:26:30","slug":"animalnames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/animals\/animalnames\/","title":{"rendered":"Collective nouns of animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A herd of antelope<br \/>\nA colony or an army of ants<br \/>\nA shrewdness of apes<br \/>\nA herd or pace of asses <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>B<\/strong><br \/>\nA troop of baboons<br \/>\nA culture of bacteria<br \/>\nA cete of badgers<br \/>\nA shoal of bass<br \/>\nA sleuth or sloth of bears<br \/>\nA colony of beavers<br \/>\nA swarm, grist or hive of bees<br \/>\nA flock, flight, congregation or volery of birds<br \/>\nA herd of bison<br \/>\nA sedge or siege of bitterns<br \/>\nA sounder of boars<br \/>\nA herd or gang of buffalo<br \/>\nA brace or clash of bucks<\/p>\n<p><strong>C<\/strong><br \/>\nA caravan, flock or train of camels<br \/>\nAn army of caterpillars<br \/>\nA herd of caribou<br \/>\nA clowder or clutter of cats<br \/>\nA herd, drove or kine of cattle<br \/>\nA coalition of cheetahs<br \/>\nA brood or peep of chickens<br \/>\nA clutch or chattering of chicks<br \/>\nA colony of chinchillas<br \/>\nA bed of clams<br \/>\nA quiver of cobras<br \/>\nA rag of colts<br \/>\nA cover of coots<br \/>\nA herd or a kine of cows (twelve cows are a flink)<br \/>\nA band of coyotes<br \/>\nA sedge or siege of cranes<br \/>\nA float of crocodiles<br \/>\nA murder of crows<br \/>\nA litter of cubs<br \/>\nA herd of curlews<br \/>\nA cowardice of curs<\/p>\n<p><strong>D<\/strong><br \/>\nA herd of deer<br \/>\nA pack of dogs<br \/>\nA pod of dolphins<br \/>\nA drove, herd or pace of donkeys<br \/>\nA dule of doves<br \/>\nA brace, paddling or team of ducks<\/p>\n<p><strong>E<\/strong><br \/>\nA clutch of eggs<br \/>\nA herd or memory of elephants<br \/>\nA pod of elephant seals<br \/>\nA weaner pod is yearling elephant seals<br \/>\nA gang of elk<br \/>\nA mob of emus<\/p>\n<p><strong>F<\/strong><br \/>\nA business or fesnyng of ferrets<br \/>\nA charm of finches<br \/>\nA school, shoal, run, haul, catch or draught of fish<br \/>\nA swarm of flies<br \/>\nA skulk or leash of foxes<br \/>\nAn army or colony of frogs<\/p>\n<p><strong>G<\/strong><br \/>\nA flock, gaggle or skein (in flight) of geese<br \/>\nA tower of giraffes<br \/>\nA cloud or horde of gnats<br \/>\nA herd, tribe or trip goats<br \/>\nA charm of goldfinches<br \/>\nA band of gorillas<br \/>\nA leash of greyhounds<\/p>\n<p><strong>H<\/strong><br \/>\nA down or husk of hares<br \/>\nA cast or kettle of hawks<br \/>\nAn array of hedgehogs<br \/>\nA brood of hens<br \/>\nA hedge of herons<br \/>\nA bloat, crash, dale,\u00a0 herd or pod of hippos.<br \/>\nA drift, or parcel of hogs<br \/>\nA team, pair or harras of horses<br \/>\nA pack, mute or cry of hounds<br \/>\nA cackle or clan of hyenas<\/p>\n<p><strong>J<\/strong><br \/>\nA smack or fluther of jellyfish<\/p>\n<p><strong>K<\/strong><br \/>\nA troop or mob of kangaroos<br \/>\nA kindle or litter of kittens<\/p>\n<p><strong>L<\/strong><br \/>\nAn ascension or exaultation of larks<br \/>\nA leap (leep) of leopards<br \/>\nA pride of lions<br \/>\nA plague of locusts<\/p>\n<p><strong>M<\/strong><br \/>\nA tiding of magpies<br \/>\nA sord of mallards<br \/>\nA stud of mares<br \/>\nA richness of martens<br \/>\nA mischief of mouse<br \/>\nA labour of moles<br \/>\nA troop of monkeys<br \/>\nA barren or span of mules<\/p>\n<p><strong>O<\/strong><br \/>\nA bevy, family, raft, romp of otters<br \/>\nA parliament of owls<br \/>\nA yoke, drove, team or herd of oxen<br \/>\nA bed of oysters<\/p>\n<p><strong>P<\/strong><br \/>\nA company of parrots<br \/>\nA covey of partridges<br \/>\nA muster or ostentation of peacocks<br \/>\nA litter of peeps<br \/>\nA nest, nide (nye) or bouquet of pheasants<br \/>\nA flock or flight of pigeons<br \/>\nA drift, drove or litter of pigs<br \/>\nA wing or congregation of plovers<br \/>\nA chine of polecats<br \/>\nA string of ponies<br \/>\nA prickle of porcupines<br \/>\nA pod of porpoises<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q<\/strong><br \/>\nA covey or bevy of quail<\/p>\n<p><strong>R<\/strong><br \/>\nA nest of rabbits<br \/>\nA pack or swarm of rats<br \/>\nA rhumba of rattlesnakes<br \/>\nAn unkindness of ravens<br \/>\nA crash or herd of rhinos<br \/>\nA bevy of roebucks<br \/>\nA building or clamour of rooks<\/p>\n<p><strong>S<\/strong><br \/>\nA herd, pod or rookery of seals<br \/>\nA drove or flock of sheep<br \/>\nA nest of snakes<br \/>\nA walk or wisp of snipe<br \/>\nA host of sparrows<br \/>\nA dray or scurry of squirrels<br \/>\nA pack or trip of stoats<br \/>\nA murmuration of starlings<br \/>\nA mustering of storks<br \/>\nA flight of swallows<br \/>\nA bevy, herd, lamentation or wedge of swans<br \/>\nA flock of swifts<br \/>\nA sounder or drift of swine<\/p>\n<p><strong>T<\/strong><br \/>\nA spring of teal<br \/>\nA streak of tigers<br \/>\nA knot of toads<br \/>\nA hover of trout<br \/>\nA rafter of turkeys<br \/>\nA pitying or dule of turtledoves<br \/>\nA bale of turtles<\/p>\n<p><strong>W<\/strong><br \/>\nA pod of walrus<br \/>\nA gang, colony or pack of weasels<br \/>\nA school, gam or pod of whales<br \/>\nA nest of vipers<br \/>\nA pack or route of wolves<br \/>\nA fall of woodcocks<br \/>\nA descent of woodpeckers<br \/>\nA wisdom of wombats<\/p>\n<p><strong>Z<\/strong><br \/>\nA herd, dazzle or zeal of zebras<\/p>\n<p>Also see: <a href=\"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/collective-nouns-of-people\/\">Collective nouns of people<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A herd of antelope A colony or an army of ants A shrewdness of apes A herd or pace of 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