Wednesday, 11 April 2012

Interesting and unusual animal group names

One of the things that interested me when I was volunteering at Thanda Game Reserve in September last year, was the names of different animal groups. I found a few different sites (here, here and here) that list a whole host of group names, these ones being my favourites:

-a memory of elephants

-a dazzle of zebras

-an obstinacy of buffalo

-a destruction of wild cats

-a coalition of cheetahs

-a bask of crocodiles

-a flamboyance of flamingos

-a tower of giraffes

-an implausibility of gnus (wildebeest)

-a confusion of guinea fowl

-a bloat of hippopotami

-a cackle of hyenas

-a leap of leopards

-a committee of vultures

-a carload of monkeys

-a prickle of porcupines

-a crash of rhinoceroses
-a business of mongooses (but is the plural of mongoose, mongeese?)

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