Mammals: | |
Apes | A shrewdness |
Asses | A herd or pace |
Antelope | A herd of antelope |
Baboons | A troop of baboons |
Badger | A cete of badgers |
Bats | A colony |
Bear | A sleuth or sloth of bears |
Beaver | A colony of beavers |
Boar | A sounder of boars |
Buck | A brace or clash of bucks |
Buffalo | A gang, an obstinacy for old world buffalo, herd for American bison |
Cats | A clutter, kindle, intrigue, clowder or glaring of cats; a litter, or pounce for kittens |
Cattle | A drove, herd |
Colt | A rag or rake of colts |
Cow | A kine of cows (twelve cows are a flink) |
Coyote | A band of coyote |
Cub | A litter of cubs |
Curs | A cowardice of curs |
Deer | A herd or mob; a bevy (refers only to roe bucks), |
Dogs | A puppies (young) litter (group of pups) young, pack (wild), cowardice (of curs); specific to hounds... A cry, mute, pack, kennel |
Dolphins | A school |
Donkey | A herd or pace of asses |
Elephant | A herd or parade of elephants |
Elk | A gang or herd |
Ferret | A business or busyness or fesnyng of ferrets |
Fox | A leash, skulk, earth |
Giraffes | A tower, a herd |
Goat | A herd, tribe, a trip a flock goats |
Gorilla | A band of gorillas |
Greyhound | A leash of greyhounds |
Hare | A down, a mute or husk of hares |
Hippopotamuses | A bloat |
Hog | A drift, or parcel of hogs |
Horses | A drove, team, harras, rag (for colts), stud (a group of horses belonging to a single owner, string (ponies) pair (grouped pulling horses), a string of racehorses |
Hound | A pack, kennel, mute or cry of hounds |
Hyenas | A cackle |
Kangaroo | A troop or mob of kangaroos |
Kitten | A kindle or litter of kittens |
Leopard | A leap (leep) or lepe of leopards |
Lion | A pride or sawt |
Mare | A stud of mares |
Mole | A labor or movement of moles |
Monkey | A troop or cartload of monkeys |
Mule | A barren or span of mules |
Monkeys | A troop, barrel |
Mules | A pack, span, barren |
Otters | A romp |
Oxen | A yoke, drove, team or herd of oxen |
Pigs | A drift, drove, litter (young), herd, sounder (of swine), team, passel (of hogs), singular (refers to a group of boars) |
Pony | A string of ponies |
Porcupines | A prickle |
Porpoise | A pod or school or herd or turmoil |
Rabbits | A colony, warren, nest, herd (domestic only), litter (young); specific to hares...A down, husk |
Raccoon | A gaze of raccoons |
Rat | A pack or swarm of rats |
Rhino | A crash or herd of rhinos |
Seals | A pod or herd or rookery |
Sheep | A drove, a flock or herd or trip or mob |
Squirrels | A dray, scurry |
Swine | A sounder or drift or herd of swine |
Tigers | A streak |
Walrus | A pod of walrus |
Weasel | A pack of weasels |
Whale | A school, herd, gam or pod of whales |
Wild Boars | A sounder |
Wild cats | A destruction |
Wild pigs | A drift |
Wolves | A pack, rout or route (when in movement) |
Monday, June 9, 2014
Mammal Group Names
I've found there are many names to call something by, but perhaps some of the most fun are the words for groups of animals.
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