Collective Names for Animals

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Collective Names for Animals
We've gathered together a list of 60 groups of animals and their collective nouns - some animal groups can have more than one collective noun - that you may or may not have heard of. Whenever animals gather in groups, they are formally called:

• Apes: a shrewdness
• Badgers: a cete
• Bats: a colony or a camp
• Bears: a sloth or a sleuth
• Bees: a swarm
• Buffalo: a gang or obstinacy
• Camels: a caravan
• Cats: a clowder or a glaring; Kittens: a litter or a kindle; Wild cats: a destruction
• Cobras: a quiver
• Crocodiles: a bask
• Crows: a murder
• Dogs: a pack; Puppies: a litter
• Donkeys: a drove
• Eagles: a convocation
• Elephants: a parade
• Elk: a gang or a herd
• Falcons: a cast
• Ferrets: a business
• Fish: a school
• Flamingos: a stand
• Fox: a charm
• Frogs: an army
• Geese: a gaggle
• Giraffes: a tower
• Gorillas: a band
• Hippopotami: a bloat
• Hyenas: a cackle
• Jaguars: a shadow
• Jellyfish: a smack
• Kangaroos: a troop or a mob
• Lemurs: a conspiracy
• Leopards: a leap
• Lions: a pride
• Moles: a labor
• Monkeys: a barrel or a troop
• Mules: a pack
• Otters: a family
• Oxen: a team or a yoke
• Owls: a parliament
• Parrots: a pandemonium
• Pigs: a drift or drove (younger pigs) or a sounder or a team (older pigs)
• Porcupines: a prickle
• Rabbits: a herd
• Rats: a colony
• Ravens: an unkindness
• Rhinoceroses: a crash
• Shark: a shiver
• Skunk: a stench
• Snakes: a nest
• Squirrels: a dray or a scurry
• Stingrays: a fever
• Swans: a bevy or a game (if in flight: a wedge)
• Tigers: an ambush or a streak
• Toads: a knot
• Turkeys: a gang or a rafter
• Turtles: a bale or a nest
• Weasels: a colony, a gang or a pack
• Whales: a pod, a school, or a gam
• Wolves: a pack
• Zebras: a zeal