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Have you herd? When birds and animals congregate, we humans give these groups some really interesting names. A gaggle of geese in the water is a skein of geese in flight, which becomes a wedge of geese in flight formation. There seems to be a different name for every congregation of bird species, from a colony of penguins to a company of parrots, and even a parliament of owls. There's the unkindness of ravens and a murder of crows.

Some of the names of animal gatherings actually make a lot of sense, like a lounge of lizards, a prickle of porcupines, a crash of rhinoceroses, a bloat of hippos, a pride of lions, a cackle of hyenas, and a tower of giraffes. Others seem rather arbitrary, like a gang of elk, a troop of monkeys, and a pace of asses.

These names for animal congregations might spark the creative imagination during any naming and branding exercise. By far, the largest congregation of all is a google of animal groups.

SNARKUPDATE 7/7: And, of course, Wordlab has a couple hundred such names of its own in the Collective Nouns category.

Posted by abnu on Tuesday, July 06, 2004 @ 8:13 AM [ + ]

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