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    This document lists collective nouns used to describe groups of different animal species. It provides 49 entries with the collective noun terms for animals like apes, bats, bears, bees, buffalo and more. The collective nouns include standard terms like a pack for dogs and a pride for lions as well as more unusual terms like a shrewdness for apes and a smack for jellyfish.

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    This document lists collective nouns used to describe groups of different animal species. It provides 49 entries with the collective noun terms for animals like apes, bats, bears, bees, buffalo and more. The collective nouns include standard terms like a pack for dogs and a pride for lions as well as more unusual terms like a shrewdness for apes and a smack for jellyfish.

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    This document lists collective nouns used to describe groups of different animal species. It provides 49 entries with the collective noun terms for animals like apes, bats, bears, bees, buffalo and more. The collective nouns include standard terms like a pack for dogs and a pride for lions as well as more unusual terms like a shrewdness for apes and a smack for jellyfish.

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    PRACTICAL ENGLISH - COLLECTIVE NOUNS(ANIMALS)

    1. Apes: a shrewdness 27. Kangaroos: a troop or a mob


    2. Bats: a colony or a camp 28. Leopards: a leap
    3. Bears: a sloth 29. Lions: a pride
    4. Bees: a swarm 30. Monkeys: a barrel or a troop
    5. Buffalo: a gang 31. Owls: a parliament
    6. Camels: a caravan 32. Parrots: a pandemonium
    7. Cats: a clowder or a glaring; 33. Pigs: a drift or drove (younger pigs)

    Kittens: a litter or a sounder or a team (older pigs)


    8. Wild cats: a destruction 34. Porcupines: a prickle
    9. Cobras: a quiver 35. Rabbits: a herd
    10. Crocodiles: a bask 36. Rats: a colony
    11. Crows: a murder 37. Ravens: an unkindness
    12. Dogs: a pack; Puppies: a litter 38. Rhinoceroses: a crash
    13. Donkeys: a drove 39. Shark: a shiver
    14. Eagles: a convocation 40. Snakes: a nest
    15. Elephants: a parade 41. Stingrays: a fever
    16. Fish: a school 42. Swans: a bevy or a game (if in

    17. Flamingos: a stand flight: a wedge)


    18. Fox: a charm 43. Tigers: an ambush or a streak
    19. Frogs: an army 44. Toads: a knot
    20. Geese: a gaggle 45. Turkeys: a gang or a rafter
    21. Giraffes: a tower 46. Turtles: a bale or a nest
    22. Gorillas: a band 47. Weasels: a colony, a gang or a

    23. Hippopotamus: a bloat pack


    24. Hyenas: a cackle 48. Whales: a pod, a school, or a gam
    25. Jaguars: a shadow 49. Wolves: a pack
    26. Jellyfish: a smack 50. Zebras: a zeal

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