Many of the weird collective nouns for names for groups of animals are no longer used, but it is fun and informative to learn about them. We’ve arranged our list in alphabetical order based on ...

Animal group names highlight a fascinating aspect of animal behavior: From social butterflies to solitary scavengers, virtually all animals gather into groups at some point in their lives.

Collective nouns for animals are weird and wonderful – here's where they came from.

Some collective nouns given to groups of animal might leave you with raised eyebrows or giggling uncontrollably as you read through the list. Some types of animals even have more than one collective ...

In an exhaustive piece in the Transactions of the Philological Society 1907-1910 (digitized by Google), a man named John Hodgkin examines many of these collective nouns for groups of animals, birds, ...

You probably know that a group of wolves is called a pack or that a group of puppies is called a litter, but there are many collective nouns for animals that are much less well-known and frankly ...

Talk to the animals: The art and humour of the collective noun From 'a dazzle of zebras' to 'a shiver of sharks', collective nouns are a fascinating quirk of the English language, dating back ...

The oddest names for groups of wild animals: Buffalo: obstinacy Some collective names describe the character of the animals, considering that obstinacy means stubbornness, it makes sense why this ...