alligators: congregation antelope: herd ants: nest, army, colony, swarm apes: troop, shrewdness asses: pace, herd, drove baboons: troop badgers: cete bears: sloth, sleuth beavers: family, colony bees: grist, swarm, nest, hive boars: sounder, singular buffalo: herd, troop, gang, obstinancy butterflies: flutter buzzards: wake camels: train, caravan, flock caribou: herd cats: clowder, cluster, glaring, pounce caterpillars: army cattle: drove, herd chickens: brood, peep cockroaches: intrusion cormorants: gulp cows: kine crocodiles: bask, float crows: murder deer: herd dogs: pack doves: arc, dule, flight, pitying ducks: paddling, flock, raft eagles: aerie, convocation eels: bed, swarm elephants: herd, memory elks: gang, herd emus: mob ferrets: business finches: charm fish: school, shoal, haul, catch flamingos: stand, flamboyance flies: swarm, cloud, business foxes: leash, skulk, troop frogs: army
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geese: gaggle, skein giraffes: herd, corps, tower gnats: swarm, cloud, horde goats: flock, herd, tribe, trip goldfish: troubling gorillas: band, troop grasshoppers: cloud gulls: colony hares: down, husk hawks: boil, cast, kettle herons: sedge, siege hippos: bloat horses: herd, band, string, team, stable hounds: mute, brace, pack hyenas: cackle jays: band, party, scold jellyfish: smack, brood kangaroo: mob, herd, troop larks: exaltation leopards: leap lions: pride lizards: lounge mice: nest moles: labor monkeys: barrel moose: herd mules: barren, span otters: romp oxen: team, yoke, drove owls: parliament oysters: bed parrots: company, pandemonium peacocks: ostentation, pride pelicans: pod penguins: rookery, colony pheasants: bouquet, nye pigs: drift, drove, sounder porcupines: prickle porpoises: school, crowd, shoal prairie dogs: coterie quail: bevy, covey rabbits: nest, warren raccoons: gaze rattlesnakes: rhumba ravens: unkindness rhinoceroses: crash sardines: family seabirds: wreck seals: pod, rookery sharks: school, shoal
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Thanks Ethel;
That is a pretty definative list! I remember seeing a poster about 25 years ago with these same names for congregations of different animals. Many of the names do sound strange, as they have fallen into disuse. For example, not a flock of crows but a …….
Dave Liedlich
Connecticut