Collective Names for Animals

 Collective Names for Animals

A herd of cows, a pack of wolves…but what are groups of other animals called?

• Apes: a shrewdness

• Badgers: a cete

• Bats: a colony or a camp

• Bears: a sloth or a sleuth

• Bees: a swarm

• Buffalo: a gang or obstinacy

• Camels: a caravan

• Cats: a clowder or a glaring, Kittens: a litter or a kindle, Wild cats: a

destruction

• Cobras: a quiver

• Crocodiles: a bask

• Crows: a murder

• Dogs: a pack, Puppies: a litter

• Donkeys: a drove

• Eagles: a convocation

• Elephants: a parade

• Elk: a gang or a herd

• Falcons: a cast

• Ferrets: a business

• Fish: a school

• Flamingos: a stand

• Fox: a charm

• Frogs: an army

• Geese: a gaggle

• Giraffes: a tower

• Gorillas: a band

• Hippopotami: a bloat

• Hyenas: a cackle

• Jaguars: a shadow

• Jellyfish: a smack

• Kangaroos: a troop or a mob

• Lemurs: a conspiracy

• Leopards: a leap

• Lions: a pride

• Moles: a labor

• Monkeys: a barrel or a troop

• Mules: a pack

• Otters: a family

• Oxen: a team or a yoke

• Owls: a parliament

• Parrots: a pandemonium

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

• Porcupines: a prickle

• Rabbits: a herd

• Rats: a colony

• Ravens: an unkindness

• Rhinoceroses: a crash

• Shark: a shiver

• Skunk: a stench

• Snakes: a nest

• Squirrels: a dray or a scurry

• Stingrays: a fever

• Swans: a bevy or a game (if in flight: a wedge)

• Tigers: an ambush or a streak

• Toads: a knot

• Turkeys: a gang or a rafter

• Turtles: a bale or a nest

• Weasels: a colony, a gang or a pack

• Whales: a pod, a school, or a gam

• Wolves: a pack

• Zebras: a zeal