How often have you heard someone say “so what do you call a group of giraffe?” or mongooses or whatever? Well, we did some research and came up with the following wildlife collective nouns, some of which had us giggling 🙂
A clan of hyena
A leap of leopards
A dazzle of zebra
A memory of elephant
A prickle of porcupine
An armoury of aardvarks
A pod or raft of hippos
A crash of rhino
A parliament of owls
A confusion of guinea fowl
A convocation of eagles
A whoop of gorillas
A business of mongoose
An obstinacy of buffalo
An implausibility of wildebeest
A wake of vultures
A fling of oxpeckers
A gaggle of geese
A hedge of herons
A pod of pelicans
A tower of giraffe (when the giraffe are standing still)
A journey of giraffe (for moving animals)
A pride of lion
A coalition of cheetah
A bask of crocodiles
A flamboyance of flamingoes
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