COLLECTIVE NOUNS - Animals

  COLLECTIVE NOUNS - Animals

Apes: a shrewdness

Bats: a colony, cloud or camp

Bears: a sloth or sleuth

Bees: a swarm

Buffalo: a gang or obstinacy

Camels: a caravan

Cats: a clowder or glaring; Kittens: a litter or 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

Falcons: a cast

Fish: a school

Flamingos: a stand

Foxes: a skulk or leash

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 mob

Lemurs: a conspiracy

Leopards: a leap

Lions: a pride

Moles: a labor

Monkeys: a barrel or troop

Mules: a pack

Otters: a family

Oxen: a team or yoke

Owls: a parliament

Parrots: a pandemonium

Pigs: a drift or drove (younger pigs), or a sounder or 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 scurry

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

Tigers: an ambush or streak

Toads: a knot

Turkeys: a gang or rafter

Turtles: a bale or nest

Whales: a pod, school, or gam

Wolves: a pack

Zebras: a zeal