Unusual Animal Collectives

You’d be surprised at what the ‘official’ English collective nouns are for groups of animals, we certainly were when we looked into it.

Here are a few of what we consider to be the more ‘exotic …

Reptiles

• A quiver of cobras
• A float of crocodiles

Insects

• An intrusion of cockroaches
• A grist of bees

Mammals

• A sounder of boar
• An obstinacy of buffalo
• A caravan of camels
• A tower of giraffes
• An implausibilty of gnus
• A leash of greyhounds
• A husk of hares
• A parade of elephants
• A gang of elk
• A leap of leopards
• A business of ferrets
• An array of hegehogs
• A bloat of hippopotamuses
• A parcel of hogs
• A mob of kangaroos
• A mischief of mice
• A labour of moles
• A troop of monkeys
• A romp of otters
• A crash of rhinos
• An ambush of tigers
• A huddle of walruses
• A zeal of zebras

Birds

• A murder of crows
• A charm of finches
• A skulk of flamingoes
• An exultation of larks
• A dule of doves
• A kettle of hawks
• A paddling of duck
• A cast of falcons
• A gulp of magpies
• A parliament of owls
• A company of parrots
• A parcel of penguins
• A bouquet of pheasants
• A clamour of rooks
• A host of sparrows
• A murmuration of starlings
• A mustering of storks
• A lamentation of swans
• A gang of turkeys
• A carpet of vultures
• A descent of woodpeckers

Fish (& other ‘wet’ things)

• A troubling of goldfish
• A smack of jellyfish
• A knot of toads