Here’s a fun list of collective nouns for animals. Check it out below!
COLLECTIVE NOUNS FOR ANIMALS – This type of noun is always interesting and these are the names for these animal groups.
A noun is the name of a person, place, or object. Nouns can be concrete or abstract, singular or plural and in a sentence, it has several functions. Its functions include subjects, direct objects, indirect objects, subject complements, object complements, appositives, adjectives, or adverbs.
There are several types of nouns and one of them is collective nouns. As defined, these are the “words that function as a singular noun while referring to a group of people or things”. They refer to multiple things at once by definition but in form, they are singular.
Some people find this fun. For one, a group of lions is called a pride, and a group of otters is sometimes called a raft while a group of swans can be called a wedge but only when they are flying.
Here are some more:
- Antelope: a herd
- Ants: a colony or an army
- Apes: a shrewdness
- Baboons: a troop
- Badgers: a cete
- Bass: a shoal
- Bats: a colony, cloud or cauldron
- Bears: a sloth or sleuth; Cubs: a litter
- Beavers: a colony
- Bees: a swarm
- Boar: a sounder
- Buffalo: a gang or obstinacy
- Camels: a caravan
- Caterpillars: an army
- Cats: a clowder, glaring, pounce, nuisance or clutter; Kittens: a litter or kindle; Wild cats: a destruction
- Cattle: a herd or drove
- Cheetahs: a coalition
- Chickens: a brood or peep; Chicks: a clutch or chattering
- Clams: a bed
- Cobras: a quiver
- Colts: a rag
- Cows: a kine, drove, herd, or fold; twelve or more cows are a flink
- Coyotes: a band
- Cranes: a sedge
- Crocodiles: a float or bask
- Crows: a murder
- Deer: a herd
- Dogs: a pack or cowardice; Puppies: a litterDolphins: a pod
- Donkeys: a drove
- Doves: a dule
- Ducks: a brace, paddling or team
- Eagles: a convocation
- Elephants: a herd or parade
- Elk: a gang or herd
- Emus: a mob
- Falcons: a cast
- Ferrets: a business or fesnyng
- Finches: a charm
- Fish: a school, shoal, run, haul, or catch
- Flamingos: a stand or flamboyance
- Flies: a swarm, hatch, or business
- Foxes: a skulk or leash
- Frogs: an army or a colony
- Geese: a gaggle or flock, a skein when in flight
- Giraffes: a tower
- Gnats: a cloud or horde
- Goats: a herd, tribe, or trip
- Goldfinches: a charm
- Goldfish: a troubling
- Gorillas: a band
- Grasshoppers: a cloud
- Greyhounds: a leach
- Hares: a down or husk
- Hawks: a cast or kettle
- Hippopotami: bloat or thunder
- Hogs: a drift or parcel
- Horses: a team or harras
- Hounds: a pack, mute or cry
- Hyenas: a cackle
- Jaguars: a shadow
- Jellyfish: a smack or brood
- Kangaroos: a troop or mob
- Larks: an ascension or exaltation
- Lemurs: a conspiracy
- Leopards: a leap
- Lice: a flock
- Lions: a pride
- Locust: a plague or cloud
- Magpies: a tiding or tittering
- Mallards: a sord
- Manatees: an aggregation
- Mares: a stud
- Martens: a richness
- Minnows: a steam
- Moles: a labor
- Monkeys: a barrel, cartload, or troop
- Mules: a pack, barren, or span
- Nightingales: a watch
- Otters: a family, romp, or raft
- Owls: a parliament
- Oxen: a team or yoke
- Oysters: a bed
- Parrots: a pandemonium or company
- Partridges: a coveyPeacocks: a muster or ostentation
- Penguins: a colony
- Pheasants: a nest, nide, or bouquet
- Pigeons: a flock or flights
- Pigs: a drift or drove (younger pigs), or a sounder, litter, or team (older pigs)
- Ponies: a string
- Porcupines: a prickle
- Rabbits: a colony or warren
- Raccoons: a gaze
- Rats: a colony, pack, swarm, or mischief
- Rattlesnakes: a rhumba
- Ravens: an unkindness
- Rhinoceroses: a crash
- Sharks: a shiver
- Sheep: a drove or flock
- Skunks: a stench
- Snakes: a nest or knot
- Sparrows: a host
- Squirrels: a dray or scurry
- Starlings: a murmuration
- Stingrays: a fever
- Storks: a mustering
- Swans: a bevy or lamentation, a wedge when in flight
- Tigers: an ambush or a streak
- Toads: a knot or knab
- Trout: a hover
- Turkeys: a gang, posse or rafter
- Turtles: a bale or nest
- Vultures: a venue
- Wasps: a pledge
- Weasels: a colony, gang, or pack
- Whales: a pod, school, or gam
- Wolves: a pack or route
- Wombats: a wisdom
- Woodpeckers: a descent
- Zebras: a zeal