Collective Names for Animals
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Apes: a shrewdness
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Badgers: a cete
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Bats: a colony or a camp
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Bears: a sloth or a sleuth
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Bees: a swarm
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Buffalo: a gang or obstinacy
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Camels: a caravan
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Cats: a clowder or a glaring; Kittens: a litter or a kindle;
Wild cats: a destruction
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Cobras: a quiver
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Crocodiles: a bask
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Crows: a murder
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Dogs: a pack; Puppies: a litter
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Donkeys: a drove
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Eagles: a convocation
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Elephants: a parade
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Elk: a gang or a herd
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Falcons: a cast
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Ferrets: a business
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Fish: a school
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Flamingos: a stand
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Fox: a charm
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Frogs: an army
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Geese: a gaggle
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Giraffes: a tower
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Gorillas: a band
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Hippopotami: a bloat
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Hyenas: a cackle
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Jaguars: a shadow
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Jellyfish: a smack
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Kangaroos: a troop or a mob
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Lemurs: a conspiracy
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Leopards: a leap
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Lions: a pride
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Moles: a labor
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Monkeys: a barrel or a troop
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Mules: a pack
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Otters: a family
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Oxen: a team or a yoke
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Owls: a parliament
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Parrots: a pandemonium
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Pigs: a drift or drove (younger pigs) or a sounder or a team (older
pigs)
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Porcupines: a prickle
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Rabbits: a herd
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Rats: a colony
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Ravens: an unkindness
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Rhinoceroses: a crash
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Shark: a shiver
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Skunk: a stench
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Snakes: a nest
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Squirrels: a dray or a scurry
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Stingrays: a fever
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Swans: a bevy or a game (if in flight: a wedge)
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Tigers: an ambush or a streak
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Toads: a knot
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Turkeys: a gang or a rafter
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Turtles: a bale or a nest
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Weasels: a colony, a gang or a pack
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Whales: a pod, a school, or a gam
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Wolves: a pack
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Zebras: a zeal
