106 Animals With Unusual Group Names

From a gang of elk to a trip of goats, some animal groups have strange names.

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What do you call a group of buzzards? (It's a wake.) What about a gathering of lizards? (That's a leap.)
Leave it to the animal kingdom to bring us some unusual and fun-to-say names for certain animal groups. While it may be easy to think of all animals in terms of herds packs, it's so much more fun to learn the true group names for some of your favorite animals. 
Whether it's an unkindness of ravens or a cete of badgers, the animal kingdom is rich with clever and creative names for groupings of animals.

Want to have a little fun? Check out this list of odd and awesome animal group names. Then quiz your friends to see how many they can list:
  1. Albatross: a rookery
  2. Alligators: a congregation
  3. Apes: a shrewdness
  4. Baboons: a troop
  5. Badgers: a cete
  6. Bats: a cauldron
  7. Bears: a sloth or sleuth
  8. Bitterns: a sedge
  9. Bloodhounds: a sute
  10. Bobolinks: a chain
  11. Buzzards: a wake
  12. Bobolinks: a chain
  13. Buffalo: a gang or obstinacy
  14. Bullfinches: a bellowing
  15. Caterpillars: an army
  16. Cats: a clowder, pounce or glaring; (kittens: a kindle, litter or intrigue)
  17. Cheetahs: a coalition
  18. Cobras: a quiver
  19. Coots: a cover
  20. Cormorants: a gulp
  21. Crows: a murder or horde
  22. Dogs: a litter (puppies), pack (wild) or cowardice (curs)
  23. Donkeys: a pace
  24. Dotterel: a trip
  25. Doves: a dule or pitying (specific to turtle doves)
  26. Ducks: a brace, team, flock (in flight), raft (on water), paddling or badling
  27. Eagles: a convocation
  28. Elephants: a parade
  29. Elk: a gang
  1. Emus: a mob
  2. Ferrets: a business
  3. Finches: a charm
  4. Flamingos: a stand
  5. Fox: a leash, skulk or earth
  6. Giraffes: a tower
  7. Goats: a tribe or trip
  8. Gorillas: a band
  9. Grasshoppers: a cloud
  10. Guillemots: a bazar
  11. Guinea Fowl: a confusion
  12. Hippopotamuses: a bloat or thunder
  13. Hyenas: a cackle
  14. Jaguars: a shadow
  15. Jays: Party or scold
  1. Jellyfish: a smack or a brood
  2. Kangaroos: a troop or mob
  3. Lapwings: a deceit
  4. Larks: an exaltation
  5. Lemurs: a conspiracy
  6. Leopards: a leap
  7. Lions: a pride or sawt
  8. Lizards: a leap
  9. Mallards: a sord (in flight) or brace
  10. Magpies: a tiding, gulp, murder or charm
  11. Martens: a richness
  12. Mice: A mischief
  13. Moles: a labor
  14. Monkeys: a troop or barrel
  15. Mules: a pack, span or barren
  16. Nightingales: a watch
  17. Otters: a romp
  18. Owls: a parliament
  19. Parrots: a pandemonium or company
  20. Partridge: a covey
  21. Peacocks: an ostentation or muster
  22. Penguins: a colony, muster, parcel or rookery
  23. Pigs: a drift, drove, sounder, team or passel
  24. Polecats: a chine
  25. Porcupines: a prickle
  26. Porpoises: a pod, school, herd or turmoil
  27. Prarie Dogs: a coterie
  28. Ptarmigans: a covey
  29. Rabbits: a colony, warren, nest, down, husk or herd (domestic only)
  30. Rooks: a building
  31. Raccoons: a gaze
  32. Rattlesnakes: a rhumba
  33. Ravens: a kindness 
  34. Rhinoceroses: a crash
  35. Salamanders: a congress
  36. Salmon: a run
  37. Sandpipers: a fling
  38. Sharks: a shiver, shoal, or school
  39. Skylarks: an exultation
  40. Snipe: a walk or wisp
  41. Sparrows: a host
  42. Spiders: a cluster or a clutter
  43. Squirrels: a dray or scurry
  44. Starlings: a murmuration
  45. Stingrays: a fever
  46. Storks: a mustering
  47. Swans: a bevy, game or wedge (in flight)
  1. Teal: a spring
  2. Thrush: a mutation
  3. Tigers: an ambush or streak
  4. Toads: a knot
  5. Turkeys: a rafter or gang
  6. Turtle Doves: a pitying or a dule
  7. Vultures: A venue or a kettle (circling)
  8. Waterfowl: a knob 
  9. Whales: a pod, gam or herd
  10. Wildfowl: a plump
  11. Wolves: a pack, rout or route (moving)
  12. Wombats: a wisdom
  13. Woodcocks: a fall
  14. Woodpeckers: a descent
  15. Zebras: a zeal, crossing, dazzle, cohorts, or herd

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