Species Name |
Animal Group Name |
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Classification: Mammals |
Aardvarks |
Armory |
Antelopes |
Herd, Cluster, or Tribe |
Apes |
Shrewdness or Troop |
Armadillos |
Roll |
Baboons |
Flange or Troop |
Badgers |
Cete |
Bats |
Colony |
Bears |
Sleuth or Sloth |
Beavers |
Colony |
Boars |
Singular |
Buffalo |
Gang, Obstinacy, or Herd |
Camels |
Caravan |
Cats |
Clowder, Cluster, Glaring, or Pounce; Litter or Kindle (for kittens); Destruction (for wild cats) |
Cattle |
Drove or Herd |
Cheetahs |
Coalition |
Deer |
Herd or Bevy |
Dogs |
Pack, Mute, or Kennel; Litter (for puppies) |
Donkeys (or Asses) |
Pace or Drove |
Dugong |
Herd |
Elephants |
Parade or Herd |
Elk |
Gang or Herd |
Emus |
Mob |
Ferrets |
Business |
Fox |
Leash, Skulk, or Earth |
Giant Panda |
Sleuth |
Giraffes |
Tower |
Goats |
Tribe or Trip |
Gorillas |
Band |
Hares |
Husk or Down |
Hippopotamuses |
Bloat or Thunder |
Hogs |
Passel or Team |
Horses |
Team, Harras, or String; Rag (for colts); Stud (for a breeding group) |
Hyenas |
Cackle |
Indonesian Mountain Weasels |
Boggle |
Jaguars |
Leap, Prowl, or Parade |
Kangaroos |
Troop or Mob |
Lemurs |
Conspiracy |
Leopards |
Leap |
Lions |
Pride |
Manatees |
Aggregation |
Martens |
Richness |
Mice |
Horde or Mischief |
Moles |
Labor |
Monkeys |
Troop or Barrel |
Mules |
Pack, Span, or Barren |
Otters |
Romp or Raft |
Oxen |
Team or Yoke |
Pigs |
Drift, Drove, or Team |
Porcupines |
Prickle |
Porpoises |
Pod, Shoal, or School |
Rabbits |
Colony, Warren, or Nest |
Raccoons |
Smack, Gaze, or Nursery |
Rats |
Mischief |
Rhinoceroses |
Crash or Stubbornness |
Seals |
Bob, Pod, or Harem |
Sheep |
Drove, Flock, or Herd |
Skunks |
Surfeit or Stench |
Squirrels |
Dray or Scurry |
Swine |
Sounder |
Tigers |
Streak or Ambush |
Weasels |
Gang or Sneak |
Whales |
Pod, Gam, or Herd |
Wolves |
Pack or Rout |
Wombats |
Wisdom |
Zebras |
Herd, Dazzle, or Zeal |
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Species Name |
Animal Group Name |
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Classification: Birds |
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Birds in General |
Flight, Flock, Volary, or Brace |
Birds in a Breeding Colony |
Rookery |
Bitterns |
Sedge |
Blackbirds |
Grind |
Bobolinks |
Chain |
Budgerigars |
Chatter |
Bullfinches |
Bellowing |
Buzzards |
Wake |
Bobolinks |
Chain |
Chickens |
Brood or Peep |
Chicks (Of Many Species) |
Brood or Clutch |
Coots |
Cover |
Cormorants |
Gulp or Flight |
Cranes |
Sedge |
Crows |
Murder or Horde |
Dotterel |
Trip |
Doves |
Dole/Dule, Bevy, Piteousness, or Pitying |
Ducks |
Raft, Bunch, or Paddling (when on water); Flock, Flush, Badling, Badelynge, Safe, or Team (when in flight) |
Eagles |
Convocation |
Falcons |
Cast |
Finches |
Charm |
Flamingos |
Stand or Flamboyance |
Geese |
Flock, Gaggle, or Skein |
Grouse |
Pack |
Gulls |
Colony |
Hawks |
Cast, Kettle, or Boil |
Herons |
Sedge or Siege |
Jackdaws |
Clattering or Train |
Jays |
Party or Scold |
Lapwings |
Deceit |
Larks |
Exaltation or Ascension |
Mallards |
Sord or Brace |
Magpies |
Tiding, Gulp, Murder, or Charm |
Nightingales |
Watch |
Owls |
Parliament |
Parrots |
Company or Pandemonium |
Partridge |
Covey |
Peacocks |
Muster or Ostentation |
Penguins |
Colony |
Pheasant |
Nest, Nide, Brood, Nye, or Bouquet |
Pigeons |
Flock, Litter, Kit, or Loft |
Plovers |
Congregation or Wing |
Ptarmigans |
Covey |
Quail |
Bevy or Covey |
Ravens |
Unkindness |
Robins |
Round |
Rooks |
Building, Clamor, or Parliament |
Seagulls |
Flock, Colony, Squabble, Flotilla, Scavenging, or Gullery |
Snipe |
Walk or Wisp |
Sparrows |
Host |
Starlings |
Murmuration |
Storks |
Mustering |
Swallows |
Flight |
Swans |
Bevy or Wedge |
Teal |
Spring |
Turkeys |
Rafter or Gang |
Vultures |
Committee |
Widgeons |
Company |
Woodcocks |
Fall |
Woodpeckers |
Descent |
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Species Name |
Animal Group Name |
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Classification: Reptiles and Amphibians |
Alligators |
Congregation |
Cobras |
Quiver |
Crocodiles |
Bask |
Frogs |
Army |
Lizards |
Lounge |
Rattlesnakes |
Rhumba |
Toads |
Knot |
Tortoises |
Creep |
Turtles |
Bale or Nest |
Snakes |
Vipers’ Nest, Snakes’ Den, Ball, or Slither |
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Classification: Fish |
Fish in General |
Draft, Nest, School, or Shoal |
Bass |
Shoal |
Dogfish |
Troop |
Eels |
Bed or Swarm |
Goldfish |
Troubling |
Herring |
Army |
Koi |
Glint |
Sharks |
Shiver |
Stingrays |
Fever |
Trout |
Hover |
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Classification: Invertibrates |
Ants |
Colony |
Bees |
Grist, Hive, or Swarm |
Butterflies |
Kaleidoscope, Flight, Flutter, or Rabble |
Caterpillars |
Army |
Clams |
Bed |
Cockroaches |
Intrusion |
Flies |
Business |
Gnats |
Cloud or Horde |
Grasshoppers |
Cloud |
Hornets |
Nest |
Jellyfish |
Smack |
Lobsters |
Risk |
Locusts |
Plague or Cloud |
Octopuses |
Consortium |
Oysters |
Bed |
Scorpions |
Bed or Nest |
Snails |
Escargatoire, Walk, or Rout |
Spiders |
Clutter or Cluster |
Squids |
Shoal |
Wasps |
Pledge |
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