Collective Names of Animals



Collective Names of Animals

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
Boars a sounder
Buffalo a gang or obstinacy
Buffaloes 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 litter
Dolphins 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 a 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
Locusts 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

Collective Names of Animals

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 covey
Peacocks 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
Trouts 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