What Is a Group of Animals Called? 10 Collective Nouns
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Collective Noun questions and answers
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What is a group of swans called?
a bevy
A group in the air gets a different name: swans flying together in their distinctive V shape are usually called a wedge, while bevy stays reserved for birds on land or water.
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What is a group of hippos called?
a bloat
The traditional collective noun for hippos is a bloat. They spend the day packed into rivers and pools, sometimes dozens together, and come ashore at night to graze.
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What is a group of hyenas called?
a cackle
A group of hyenas is traditionally called a cackle. The name reflects their distinctive, laughing-like vocalizations.
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What is a group of cats called?
a clowder
A group of cats is called a clowder. A group of kittens is sometimes called a kindle.
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What is a group of penguins on land called?
a colony
Penguins breed in colonies, some of them hundreds of thousands of birds strong. A group swimming together at sea is called a raft instead.
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What is a group of crows called?
a murder
A murder is the traditional collective noun for crows.
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What is a group of bees called?
a swarm
A group of bees that leaves its hive and flies together is called a swarm. Swarming usually happens when a colony splits and the queen travels with part of the colony to establish a new home.
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What is a group of giraffes called?
a tower
A tower is the traditional collective noun for giraffes.
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What is a group of baboons called?
a troop
A troop is the standard collective noun for baboons.
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What is a group of sheep called?
flock
Sheep move together in a flock, an instinct so strong that one sheep will follow another over a gap in a wall. The same word covers a group of birds.
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