Animal Group Names

October 22, 2008

So I always wanted to know these, found it here:

aardvark:  aarmory
albatross:  rookery
alligator:  congregation
alpaca:  flock, herd
ant:  colony, nest, army, swarm, bike
antelope:  herd, cluster
ape:  shrewdness, troop
ass:  pace, drove, herd, coffle
auk:  colony, flock, raft
baboon:  troop, flange, congress, tribe
badger:  cete, colony, set, company
barracuda:  battery
bass:  shoal, fleet
bat:  colony, cloud
bear:  sleuth, sloth, slought, maul
beaver:  family, lodge, colony
bee:  colony, grist, hum, swarm, hive, cluster
beetle:  swarm
bird (general):  fleet, parcel, dissimulation, flight, volery, cast, flock, aviary
bison:  herd, troop, gang, thunder
bittern:  sedge, flock, siege
bloodhound:  sute
boar:  singular, sounder, herd
bovine:  herd
buffalo:  gang, troop, herd, obstinacy
bullfinch:  bellowing
bullock:  drove
butterfly:  rabble, flight, swarm
buzzard:  wake, flock
camel:  flock, train, caravan, herd
caribou:  herd
cat:  clowder, clutter, pounce, cluster, colony, glorying, destruction (wild cats)
caterpillar:  army, nest
cattle:  drove, herd, bow, bunch, draft, drift, mob
cheetah:  coalition
chicken:  brood, clutch, flock, peep, hatching, battery
chimpanzee:  cartload
chinchilla:  colony
clam:  bed, flaccidity
cockroach:  intrusion, swarm
cod:  lap, school
colt:  rake, rage
coot:  cover
cow:  herd, drove, pack, team
coyote:  pack, rout
crab:  cast
crane:  sedge, siege, flock, herd
cricket:  orchestra
crocodile:  bask, nest, congregation, float
crow:  murder, horde, parcel, hover, muster

deer:  herd, leash, bevy, game, quarry, bunch, mob, parcel
dog:  gang, legion, kennel, pack (wild), litter (young)
dolphin:  team, school, pod, herd
donkey:  drove, herd, pace
dove:  dule, duet, flight, troop
duck:  brace, flock, gaggle, paddling, team, raft, badling, bunch, waddling
eagle:  convocation, brood, aerie
eel:  swarm, bed. draft, wisp, knot
elephant:  herd, host, flock, parade, memory
elk:  gang, herd
falcon:  passager, cast
ferret:  business, cast
finch:  charm, chirm, trembling, trimming
fish (general):  school, shoal, draft, nest, cast, draught, run, catch, drift, haul
flamingo:  stand, flamboyance
fly:  business, hatch, swarm, community, cloud, grist
flying fish:  glide
fowl:  plump
fox:  leash, skulk, earth, troop
frog:  army, colony, froggery, knot
gerbil:  horde
giraffe:  tower, troop, corps, herd, group, stretch
gnat:  cloud, horde, swarm, plague
gnu:  herd
goat:  tribe, trip, flock, herd
goldfinch:  charm, chattering, drum, troubling, vein
goldfish:  troubling
goose:  flock, gaggle, skein, line, wedge, nide
gorilla:  band
grasshopper:  cloud, cluster
greyhound:  gallop, leash
grouse:  covey, pack, brace, drumming
guinea pig:  group
gull:  colony, pack
hamster:  horde
hare:  down, husk, leap, , leash, flick, kindle, drove, warren
hawk:  cast, kettle, boil, leash, mews, aerie
hedgehog:  nest, array, prickle
hen:  brood, battery, parcel, roost, mews
heron:  siege, sedge
herring:  army, glean, shoal
hippopotamuses:  bloat, pod, herd, huddle
hog:  drift, drove, herd
hornet:  nest, bike, swarm
horse:  harras, herd, pair, team, stud, field, mob, troop
hound:  cry, mute, pack, kennel
hummingbird:  charm, chattering, drum, hover, troubling
hyena:  cackle, clan
impala:  herd
jackrabbit:  husk
jellyfish:  smack, brood, smuth, smuck, fluther
kangaroo:  mob, troop, herd
kitten:  kindle, kendle, litter, intrigue
lark:  ascension, exaltation, bevy, flight
lemur:  group
leopard:  leap, prowl
lice:  flock
lion:  pride, tribe, sault, sowse
llama:  herd
locust:  host, plague, swarm, cloud
louse:  colony, infestation, lice
mackerel:  school, shoal
magpie:  tiding, gulp, murder, charm, tittering, flock
mallard:  sord, brace, puddling, flush
manatee:  herd
marten:  richness
minnow:  shoal, steam, swarm
mole:  labor, company, movement
monkey:  troop, barrel, tribe, cartload
moose:  herd
mosquito:  scourge, swarm
mouse:  nest, colony, harvest, horde, mischief
mule:  barren, pack, span, rake
nighthawk:  kettle
nightingale:  watch, flock, route, match
orangutan:  buffoonery
ostrich:  flock
otter:  romp, bevy, lodge, family, raft
owl:  parliament, stare
ox:  yoke, team, drove, herd, nye
oyster:  bed, hive, cast, culch
parrot:  company, flock, prattle
partridge:  covey, bew
peacock:  muster, ostentation, pride
penguin:  colony, rookery, parade, parcel
pheasant:  bouquet, nest, nide, nye, brood, covey
pig:  drove, litter, drift, flock, hoggery, herd, sounder
pigeon:  flight, loft, flock, dropping
plover:  congregation, wing, leash
polar bear:  aurora, pack
polecat:  chine
pony:  string
porcupine:  prickle, family
porpoise:  school, crowd, herd, pod
possum:  passel
prairie dog:  coterie, town
quail:  bevy, covey, drift
rabbit:  colony, nest, warren, bevy, bury, drove
racoon:  nursery, mask
raptor:  cauldron, kettle
rat:  horde, mischief, rabble
raven:  unkindness, congress, conspiracy, parliament
reindeer:  herd
rhinoceros:  crash, herd
rook:  building, shoal, congregation, pack, parliament
salmon:  run, bind, gib, school, shoal
sardine:  family
scorpion:  bed, nest, colony
sea horse:  herd
seal:  pod, herd, school, trip, rookery, harem, team
shark:  shiver, school, shoal
sheep:  drove, flock, herd, drift, fold, mob, pack, trip
skunk:  stench, surfeit
snail:  escargatoire, rout, walk
snake:  bed, knot, den, pit, nest, slither
snipe:  walk, wisp
sparrow:  host, flight, quarrel, tribe
spider:  cluster, clutter, venom
squirrel:  dray, scurry, colony
starling:  murmuration, cloud, chattering, clutter
stork:  mustering, flight
swallow:  flight, rush, swoop
swan:  bevy, wedge, flock, game, team, ballet, regatta
swine:  drift, sounder, herd
swordfish:  flotilla
termite:  colony
tiger:  streak, ambush, hide. ambush
toad:  knot, nest, knob, lump
tortoise:  creep
trout:  hover, leash, troup
turkey:  rafter, posse, gang, dole, flock, raffle
turtle:  bale, bevy, nest, dule, turn
turtle dove:  pitying
toucan:  durante
viper:  nest, den
vulture:  wake
wallaby:  mob
walrus:  pod, herd, huddle
wasp:  nest, knot, bike, swarm, colony, pail
weasel:  pack, gang, sneak
whale:  gam, herd, grind, pod, shoal, school, mob
wild boar:  sounder
wolf:  pack, rout, route, horde
wombat:  mob, warren
woodcock:  fall, covey, plump
woodpecker:  descent, gatling
worm:  bed, bunch, clew
wren:  herd
yak:  herd
zebra:  herd, cohorts, crossing, stripe

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