Did you know that almost every animal in the world has a different word for a group of them? (excluding animals that are solitary)
There's the ones everyone knows:
- A colony of ants
- A herd of deer
- A troop of gorillas
- A cete of badgers
- A swarm of bees
- A pack of dogs
- A gaggle of geese
- A pride of lions
- A parliament of owls
Some that you might not know:
- A bask of crocodiles
- A sleuth of bears
- A rabble of butterfly
- A clutter of cats
- A coalition of cheaters
- A leap of leopards
- A business of ferrets
- An intrusion of cockroaches
- A piteousness of doves
- A charm of humming birds
- An aerie of hawks
- A siege of herons
- A bloat of hippopotamus
- A murder of crows
- A mischief of mice
- A yoke of oxen
- An ostentation of peacocks
- A trace of rabbits
- A crash of rhinos
- A shiver of sharks
- A bale of turtles
- A decent of woodpeckers
- A tower of giraffes
- A dray of squirrels
- An unkindness of ravens
- A gaze of raccoons
- A parcel of penguins
- An exhalation of lark
- A quiver of cobra
And my personal favorites:
- A dazzle of zebra
- An implausibility of gnu
- A smack of jellyfish
I love "An ostentation of peacocks"! Excellent! But surely the plural for Hippopotamus is Hippopotami?!
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