| 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, |
9 April 2011
Something I've always wondered
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