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Names for groups of animals

alligators: congregation

ants: army, colony, swarm

apes: shrewdness, troop

bats: colony

bears: sleuth, sloth

bees: colony, swarm, hive, grist

birds: flight, volery

boars/swine: singular, sounder

buffalo: gang, obstinacy

butterflies: flutter

buzzards: wake

camels: caravan, flock, train

cats: clowder, cluster, glaring, pounce

cattle: drove

cheetahs: coalition

clams, oysters: bed

cockroaches: intrusion

cranes: sedge, siege

crocodiles: bask, nest, float

crows: murder, horde

dolphins: pod

doves: dule, pitying

ducks: brace, team

eagles: convocation, aerie

ferrets: business

finches: charm

fish: school, shoal

flamingos: stand, flamboyance

foxes: skulk

geese: flock, gaggle, skein

giraffes: corps, herd, tower

goats: tribe, trip

gorillas: band, whoop

grasshoppers: cloud

hares: down, husk, trip

hawks: cast, kettle

hedgehogs: array, prickle

hippopotami: bloat

horses: pair, team

hounds: cry, mute, pack

hyenas: cackle

iguanas: mess

jellyfish: smack

kangaroos: mob, troop

larks: exaltation

leopards: leap
lions: pride

locusts: plague, swarm

moles: labor

monkeys: troop

mules: barren, span

nightingales: watch

otters: romp

owls: parliament

oxen: yoke

peacocks: muster

pheasants: nest, nide, bouquet

ponies: string

raccoons: gaze

ravens: unkindness

rhinoceroses: crash

seals: pod

sheep: flock, drove, hurtle

snakes: nest

squirrels: dray, scurry

starlings: flock, murmuration

swans: bevy

tigers: streak

toads: knot

trout: hover

turkeys: rafter

turtles: bale

vultures: committee

whales: gam, herd, pod

woodchucks: fall

woodpeckers: descent

zebras: herd, zeal

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