Collective Nouns (Animals)

Noun Collective Noun

Antelopes Herd

Asses Pace, Drove, Herd

Baboons Flange, Troop

Bears Sloth, Sleuth

Boars Sounder, Herd

Buffalo Herd

Camels Flock

Cats Cluster, Glaring

Cattle Herd, Drove

Colts Rake, Rag

Deer Herd, Leash. Parcel

Dogs Pack, Kennel

Dolphins Pod, Flock

Donkeys Herd, Drove

Elephants Herd

Elk Gang

Foxes Skulk, Lead, Leash

Giraffes Tower, Corps

Goats Trip, Flock, Herd, Tribe

Gorillas Band

Hamsters Horde

Hedgehogs Prickle, Array

Hogs Drift

Horses Drove, Harass, Herd, Stable, Team

Hounds Pack, Mute

Kangaroos Mob

Lions Pride, Sault, Sowse, Troop

Moles Labour, Company, Movement

Monkeys Troop,Tribe, Mission

Mice Nest

Otters Family, Bevy

Oxen Team, Yoke, Span

Pigs Drove, Herd, Sounder

Rabbits Colony, Bury, Nest

Rats Colony

Rhinoceroses Crash

Seals Colony, Harem, Herd, Pod, Spring

Sheep Flock, Drove, Fold

Squirrels Dray

Swine Sounder

Tigers Streak, Ambush

Unicorns Marvel

Whales School, Herd, Pod

Wolves Pack

Zebra Dazzle, Zeal

English

• There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
• English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candles while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.
• Quicksand works slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham?
• If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth?
• One goose, two geese. So - one moose, two meese? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend. If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it? Is it and odd, or an end?
• If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? In what language do people recite a play and play a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship?
• Have noses that run and feet that smell? How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are the opposites?
• You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out, and in which an alarm is going off by going on. English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all.
• That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.