Animal Groups
Apes: a shrewdness
Badgers: a cete
Bats: a cauldron
Bears: a sloth or sleuth
Buffalo: a gang or obstinacy
Cats: a clowder, pounce or glaring; for kittens: a kindle, litter or intrigue
Dogs: a litter (puppies), pack (wild) or cowardice (curs)
Donkeys: a pace
Elephants: a parade
Elk: a gang
Ferrets: a business
Fox: a leash, skulk or earth
Giraffes: a tower
Goats: a tribe or trip
Gorillas: a band
Hippopotamuses: a bloat or thunder
Hyenas: a cackle
Jaguars: a shadow
Kangaroos: a troop or mob
Lemurs: a conspiracy
Leopards: a leap
Lions: a pride or sawt
Martens: a richness
Moles: a labor
Monkeys: a troop or barrel
Mules: a pack, span or barren
Otters: a romp
Pigs: a drift, drove, sounder, team or passel
Porcupines: a prickle
Porpoises: a pod, school, herd or turmoil
Rabbits: a colony, warren, nest, down, husk or herd (domestic only)
Rhinoceroses: a crash
Squirrels: a dray or scurry
Tigers: an ambush or streak
Whales: a pod, gam or herd
Wolves: a pack, rout or route (when in movement)
Christine Alon
August 2, 2016 at 3:34 PM
Great list! :D Such cool terminologies for animal groups. I didn't know most of these. The group name kind of implies something about the creature itself or how they behave as a group.
I have two more for your list: a group of crows is called a "murder" (oooh ominous!) and a group of ravens is called an "unkindness."