Today is a depressing day history-wise (Gandhi’s assassination, The Beatles’ last public performance, Dick Cheney’s birthday) so instead I am sharing some of my favourite bits of trivia: collective nouns for animal groups!
Delightful examples include
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- A shrewdness of apes
- A sloth of bears (and yet, a group of sloths is a bed)
- A clowder of cats
- (although a group of wild or feral cats is a “destruction”)
- A skulk of foxes
A clowder (or possibly a destruction) - A troubling of goldfish
- An array of hedgehogs
- A parliament of owls
- A pandemonium of parrots
- An unkindness of ravens
- A crash of rhinoceros
- a mutation of thrush
- A zeal of zebras
