I don’t recall that our English teachers emphasized the different names of groups of animals during their classes. Either I dozed during those tedious lessons, or they were never given to us. I just can’t recall. As I read books, magazines, newspapers and watched movies and videos, I picked some of them. However, there are some groups of animals, I didn’t have the faintest clue existed.
Some of the most common ones I had no problems with are:
- A school of fish.
- A herd of cattle.
- A flock of birds.
- A swarm of bees.
- A litter of cats
However, I had no idea the following terms existed in the English language. But that’s nothing new, English as you all know, has been a tough cookie for me since I was six.
Are you familiar with the names of the following groups of animals?
- A shrewdness of apes.
- A sloth or sleuth of bears.
- A tower of giraffes.
- A band of gorillas.
- A bloat of hippopotamuses.
- A wake of buzzards.
- A gulp of cormorants.
- A sedge of cranes.
- A bask of crocodiles.
- A shoal of bass.
And the list goes on and on for mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates. A dear friend recently sent me a link which includes a lengthy list of these unusual terms which I thought you could use as a reference website. If you like to write in English, sooner or later, this site could be your deus-ex-machina.
And now you know the rest of the story of my experiences with the English language. Good Day.
