collective animal names | 2016-08-24
given the recent interest in collective names for animals, i’ve compiled a set of what i find to be the funniest and most interesting names for groups of animals.
i’ve also included a column pertaining to the family role names for the same animals (male; female; offspring). not all of those are filled out because many of them are uninteresting — the ones that are tickled my fancy for one reason or another.
please enjoy:
| Animal | Group Name | Family (male; female; offspring) |
| Alligators | Congregation | bull; cow; hatchling |
| Apes | Shrewdness | blackback/silverback; ape; baby |
| Asses | Pace | jack/jackass; jennet/jenny; foal/colt |
| Barracudas | Battery | |
| Bats | Cloud | male; female; pup |
| Bears (General) |
Sloth, Sleuth | boar; sow; cub |
| Birds (small; grounded) | Dissimulation | cock; hen; chick |
| Bloodhounds | Sute | |
| Bobolinks | Chain | |
| Buffalo | Obstinancy | |
| Cats (General) | Clowder, Clutter, Pounce, Nuisance, Glorying, Glare |
tom; queen; kitten |
| Cats (Kittens) |
Kindle, Intrigue | |
| Cats (Wild) | Destruction | |
| Cheetahs | Coalition | |
| Crows | Murder, Storytelling | |
| Dogs (Curs) |
Cowardice | dog; bitch; pup |
| Doves (Turtle) | Piteousness | cock; hen; squab |
| Ducks (Water) |
Paddling | drake; duck; duckling |
| Dunlins | Fling | |
| Emus | Mob | |
| Falcons | Cast | tiercel; falcon; chick |
| Ferrets | Business, Busyness, Cast, Fesnying |
hob; jill; kit |
| Finches | Charm | |
| Flamingoes | Flamboyance | |
| Fox | Leash, Skulk, Earth, Lead | reynard; vixen; kit |
| Giraffes | Tower | bull; doe; calf |
| Gnus | Implausibility | bull; cow; calf |
| Guinea Fowl |
Confusion | |
| Hawks | Cast, Kettle (flight), Boil (spiraling) | tiercel; hen; eyas |
| Hippopotamuses | Bloat | bull; cow; calf |
| Hummingbirds | Charm | |
| Jellyfish | Smack | male; female; ephyna |
| Lapwings | Deceit | |
| Larks | Exaltation, Ascension | |
| Leopards | Leap | leopard; leopardess; cub |
| Lizards | Lounge | |
| Magpies | Murder, Charm | |
| Moles | Labor | male; female; pup |
| Owls | Parliament, Stare | male; female; owlet |
| Parrots | Pandemonium | |
| Peacocks | Ostentation, Pride | peacock; peahen; peachick |
| Pheasants | Bouquet (take-off) | |
| Porcupines | Prickle | male; female; procupette |
| Raccoons | Gaze | boar; sow; cub |
| Rattlesnakes | Rhumba | |
| Ravens | Unkindness, Storytelling | |
| Rhinoceroses | Crash, Stubbornness | |
| Salamandars | Congress | |
| Squirrels | Dray, Scurry | buck; doe; pup/kit/kitten |
| Stingrays | Fever | |
| Tigers | Streak, Ambush | tiger; tigress; cub/whelp |
| Vultures (Circling) |
Kettle | |
| Wildebeest | Implausibility | bull; cow; calf |
| Wombats | Wisdom | jack; jill; joey |
| Zebras | Zeal, Dazzle | stallion; mare; colt/foal |
my personal favourites are: obstinacy of buffalo, pounce & glare of cats, boil of hawks, deceit of lapwings, unkindness of ravens, and wisdom of wombats
but, really, all of them are awesome!
so far on collective animal names
