###   Collective Names for Animals

When animals gather in collective groups, they are called the following:

Apes: a shrewdness

Badgers: a cete

Bats: a colony or a camp

Bears: a sloth or a sleuth

Bees: a swarm

Buffalo: a gang or obstinacy

Camels: a caravan

Cats: a clowder or a glaring, Kittens: a litter or a kindle, Wild cats: a destruction

Cobras: a quiver

Crocodiles: a bask

Crows: a murder

Dogs: a pack, Puppies: a litter

Donkeys: a drove

Eagles: a convocation

Elephants: a parade

Elk: a gang or a herd

Falcons: a cast

Ferrets: a business

Fish: a school

Flamingos: a stand

Fox: a charm

Frogs: an army

Geese: a gaggle

Giraffes: a tower

Gorillas: a band

Hippopotami: a bloat

Hyenas: a cackle

Jaguars: a shadow

Jellyfish: a smack

Kangaroos: a troop or a mob

Lemurs: a conspiracy

Leopards: a leap

Lions: a pride

Moles: a labor

Monkeys: a barrel or a troop

Mules: a pack

Otters: a family

Oxen: a team or a yoke

Owls: a parliament

Parrots: a pandemonium

Pigs: a drift or drove (younger pigs) or a sounder or a team (older pigs)

Porcupines: a prickle

Rabbits: a herd

Rats: a colony

Ravens: an unkindness

Rhinoceroses: a crash

Shark: a shiver

Skunk: a stench

Snakes: a nest

Squirrels: a dray or a scurry

Stingrays: a fever

Swans: a bevy or a game (if in flight: a wedge)

Tigers: an ambush or a streak

Toads: a knot

Turkeys: a gang or a rafter

Turtles: a bale or a nest

Weasels: a colony, a gang or a pack

Whales: a pod, a school, or a gam

Wolves: a pack

Zebras: a zeal