Animal Collective Nouns

During lock down, we did a lot of quizzes over Zoom with friends and family, animal collective nouns came up a few times. The kids and I have been talking about them and have researched to find the ones that amused us. Do you have any to add?!

• Alligators or crocodiles: a congregation
• Apes: a shrewdness
• Armadillos: a roll
• Bats: a camp
• Ants or Bees: a bike
• Buffalo: a gang
• Butterflies: a flutter
• Camels: a caravan
• Caterpillars: an army
• Cats: a glaring
• Wild cats: a destruction
• Clams: a bed
• Cobras: a quiver
• Cockroaches: an intrusion
• Crows: a murder
• Elephants: a parade or memory
• Elk: a gang
• Ferrets: a business
• Flamingos: a stand or flamboyance
• Frogs: an army
• Geese: a gaggle
• Giraffes: a tower
• Gorillas: a band
• Hamsters: a horde
• Hippopotami: a bloat
• Hyenas: a cackle
• Iguanas: a mess
• Jellyfish: a smack
• Kangaroos: a mob
• Lemurs: a conspiracy
• Leopards: a leap
• Lions: a pride
• Lizards: a lounge
• Monkeys: a troop
• Otters: a family
• Oxen: a team or yoke
• Owls: a parliament
• Parrots: a pandemonium
• Penguins: a huddle
• Pigs: a team (older pigs)
• Porcupines: a prickle
• Puffins: a circus
• Rattlesnakes: a rhumba
• Ravens: an unkindness
• Razorbills: a strop
• Rhinoceroses: a crash
• Sardines: a family
• Shark: a shiver
• Skunk: a stench
• Squirrels: a scurry
• Stingrays: a fever
• Tigers: an ambush or streak
• Toads: a knot
• Walruses: a huddle
• Weasels: a gang or pack