Sunday, February 27, 2011
Animal Name/(Collective Noun)
Ant (A colony)Antelope (A herd)Ape (A shrewdness)Ass / donkey (A pace or herd)Baboons (A troop)Bacteria (A culture)Badger (A cete)Bass (A shoal)Bats (A colony)Bear (A sleuth or sloth)Beaver (A colony)Bee (A swarm, grist or hive)Bird (A flock, flight, congregation or volery)Boar (A sounder)Buck (A brace or clash)Buffalo (A herd or obstinacy)Camel (A flock)Cat (A clowder or clutter)Caterpillar (An army)Cattle (A herd or drove)Chicken (A brood or peep)Chicks (A clutch or chattering)Clam (A bed)Cockroaches (An intrusion)Cobra (A quiver)Colt (A rag)Cow (A kine)Coyote (A band)Crane (A sedge or siege)Crocodile (A float)Crow (A murder)Cub (A litter)Cur (A cowardice)Curlew (A herd)Deer (A herd)Dog (A pack)Donkey (A herd or pace)Dove (A dule)Dragon (A weyr)Duck (A brace, paddling or team)Elephant (A herd)Elk (A gang)Emus (A mob)Falcons (A cast)Ferret (A business or fesnyng or cast)Finches (A charm)Fish (A school, shoal, run, haul, or catch)Fly (A swarm or business)Fox (A skulk or leash)Frog (An army or colony)Geese (A flock, gaggle or skein (in flight))Giraffe (A tower)Gnat (A cloud or horde)Gnu (An implausibilty or herd)Goat (A herd, tribe or trip)Goldfinch (A charm)Goldfish (A troubling)Gorilla (A band)Greyhound (A leash)Grouse (A covey or pack)Hare (A down or husk)Hawk (A cast or kettle)Hen (A brood)Heron (A hedge or sedge)Hippopotamus (A bloat)Hog (A drift, or parcel)Horse (A team, pair or harras)Hound (A pack, mute or cry)Jellyfish (A smack)Kangaroo (A troop or mob)Kitten (A kindle or litter)Lark (An ascension or exaultation)Leopard (A leap)Lion (A pride)Locust (A plague)Magpie (A tiding, gulp, charm or murder)Mallard (A sord)Mare (A stud)Marten (A richness)Mouse (A mischief)Mole (A labour)Monkey (A troop)Mule (A barren or span)Otter (A romp)Owls (A parliament)Oxen (A yoke, drove, team or herd)Oyster (A bed)Parrot (A company)Partridge (A covey)Peacock (A muster or ostentation or pride)Peep (A litter)Penguin (A parcel or huddles or colonies)Pheasant (A nest, nide (nye) or bouquet)Pig (A litter)Pigeon (A flock or flight)Pony (A string)Porpoise (A pod)Quail (A covey or bevy)Rabbit (A nest)Rat (A pack or swarm)Rattlesnake (A rhumba)Raven (An unkindness or storytelling)Rhino (A crash or herd)Roebuck (A bevy)Rook (A building or clamour)Sardines (A family)Seal (A herd or pod)Sheep (A drove or flock)Snake (A nest)Sparrow (A host)Squirrel (A dray or scurry)Starling (A murmuration)Stork (A mustering)Swallow (A flight)Swan (A bevy, herd, lamentation or wedge)Swift (A flock)Swine (A sounder or drift)Tiger (A swift or ambush)Toad (A knot)Trout (A hover)Turkey (A rafter)Turtle (A bale)Turtledove (A pitying or dule)Viper (A nest)Walrus (A pod)Whale (A school, gam or pod)Wolf (A pack or route)Woodpecker (A descent)Zebra (A herd, zeal, dazzle, or crossing (joke))
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