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 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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