A pride of lions, a murder of crows, a crash of rhinos, and every other collective noun for animals. This is a listing of every animal congregation I could find after scouring the web. If you see any missing, let me know. Note: Wikipedia has a more complete and scholarly list of names here. Animal Collective Nouns Animal Group Name Albatross Rookery Alligators Congregation Apes Shrewdness, Troop Antelope Herd Ants Colony, Army, Swarm, Nest Asses Pace, Herd, Drove Auks Colony, Flock, Raft Baboons Troop, Flange Bacteria Culture Badgers Cete, Colony, Set, Company Barracudas Battery Bats Colony, Cloud Bass Shoal Bears (General) Sloth, Sleuth Bears (Cubs) Litter Beavers Colony, Family Bees Grist, Hive, Swarm, Nest Birds (Chicks) Brood, Clutch Birds (Flight) Flight Birds (Game) Volary, Brace, Plump, Knob Birds (Ground) Flock, Dissimulation Birds (Sea) Wreck Bison Herd Bitterns Sedge, Seige Bloodhounds Sute Bobolinks Chain Buffalo Herd, Troop, Gang, Obstinancy Bullfinches Bellowing Bullocks Drove Butterflies Flight, Flutter, (Many more) Buzzards Wake Camels Caravan, Train, Flock Capons Mews Caribou Herd Caterpillars Army Cats (General) Clowder, Clutter, Pounce, Dout, Nuisance, Glorying, Glare Cats (Kittens) Kindle, Litter, Intrigue Cats (Wild) Destruction Cattle Drove, Herd, Team Cheetahs Coalition Chickens (General) Brood, Peep Chickens (Chicks) Clutch, Chattering Chinchilla Colony Choughs Clattering Clams Bed Cobras Quiver Cockroaches Intrusion Cod Lap Coots Cover, Raft Cormorants Gulp Cows Kine Coyotes Band Crabs Cast Cranes Sedge, Seige Crocodiles Bask, Float Crows Murder, Horde, Parcel, Storytelling Curlews Herd Deer (General) Herd, Leash, Gang Deer (Buck) Brace, Clash Deer (Roe) Bevy Dogs (General) Kennel Dogs (Curs) Cowardice Dogs (Hounds) Cry, Mute, Pack Dogs (Puppies) Litter Dogs (Wild) Pack Dolphins Pod Donkeys Drove, Pace, Herd Dotterel Trip Doves (General) Dule, Bevy, Cote, Dole, Paddling Doves (Turtle) Pitying, Piteousness Ducks (Flight) Flock Ducks (Ground) Brace, badling Ducks (Water) Raft, Team, Paddling Dunlins Fling Eagles Convocation, Aerie Eels Swarm, Bed, Fry Elephants Herd, Memory Elk Gang, Herd Emus Mob Falcons Cast Ferrets Business, Cast, Fesnying Finches Charm Fish (General) Draft, Nest, Shoal, School ("school" is possibly a corruption of shoal) Fish (Caught) Catch, Drought, Haul Flamingoes Stand, Flamboyance Flies Business, Swarm, Cloud Frogs Army, Colony, Knot Fox Leash, Skulk, Earth, Lead, Troop Geese (General) Flock Geese (Flight) Skein Geese (Ground) Gaggle, Herd, Corps Giraffes Tower Gnats Cloud, Horde, Swarm Gnus Implausibility Goats Tribe, Trip, Drove, Herd, Flock Goldfinches Charm Goldfish Glint, Troubling Gorillas Band, Troop Goshawks Flight Grasshoppers Cloud Greyhounds Leash Grouse Pack, Covey Guillemots Bazaar Gulls Colony, Screech Guinea Fowl Confusion Hawks (General) Cast Hawks (Flight) Kettle Hawks (Spiraling) Boil Hedgehogs Array Herons Sedge, Siege, Hedge Herring Army, Shoal Hippopotamuses Bloat Hornets Nest, Bike Horses (General) Team, Harras, Stable, Troop, Stud (a group belonging to one owner) Horses (Colts) Rag, Rake Horses (Ponies) String Horses (Wild) Herd Hummingbirds Charm Hyenas Cackle, Clan Impalas Herd Insects Horde, Nest, Swarm, Rabble, Plague Jays Party, Scold, Band Jellyfish Smack, Brood Kangaroos Troop, Mob, Herd Lapwings Deceit Larks Exaltation, Ascension Leopards Leap Lice Flock Lions Pride, Sault, Troop Lizards Lounge Locusts Plague Magpies Tiding, Gulp, Murder, Charm Mallards (General) Brace Mallards (Flight) Sord Martens Richness Mice Mischief Midges Bite Minnows Shoal, Steam, Swarm Moles Labor, Company, Movement Monkeys Troop, Barrel, Carload, Cartload, Tribe Moose Herd Mosquitoes Scourge Mudhens Fleet Mules Pack, Span, Barren, Rake Nightingales Watch Otters Romp, Bevy, Family, Raft Owls Parliament, Stare Oxen Team, Yoke, Drove Oysters Bed Parrots Company, Pandemonium Partridge Covey, Bew Peacocks Muster, Ostentation, Pride Pekingese Pomp Pelicans Pod Penguins (General) Colony, Rookery, Huddle Penguins (Nursery) Cr�che Pheasants (General) Nest, Nye Pheasants (Brood) Nide Pheasants (Take-Off) Bouquet Pigeons Flight, Flock, Kit Pigs (General) Drift, Drove Pigs (Boars) Singular, Sounder Pigs (Hogs) Team, Passel, Drift, Parcel Pigs (Piglets) Litter, Farrow Pigs (Swine) Sounder Pilchards Shoal Plovers (General) Congregation Plovers (Flight) Wing Polecats Chine Porcupines Prickle Porpoises Herd, Pod, School, Crowd, Shoal Prairie Dogs Coterie Ptarmigans Covey Quail Bevy, Covey Rabbits (General) Colony, Warren, Bury, Trace, Trip Rabbits (Domestic) Herd Rabbits (Hares) Down, Husk Rabbits (Jackrabbit) Husk Rabbits (Young) Litter, Nest Raccoons Gaze Rats Colony, Pack, Plague, Swarm Rattlesnakes Rhumba Ravens Unkindness, Storytelling Reindeer Herd Rhinoceroses Crash, Stubbornness Roebucks Bevy Rooks Building, Clamor, Parliament Ruffs Hill Salamandars Congress Salmon Run Sandpipers Fling Sardines Family Scorpions Bed, Nest Seabirds Wreck Seals Pod, Bob, Harem, Herd, Rookery Sharks Shiver, School, Shoal Sheep Drove, Flock, Down, Hurtle, Fold, Pack, Trip Sheldrakes Doading Skylarks Exultation Snails Escargatoire, Rout, Walk Snakes Den, Nest, Pit, Bed, Knot Snipe Walk, Wisp Sparrows Host Spiders Cluster, Clutter Springbok Herd Squirrels Dray, Scurry Starlings Murmuration, Chattering Stingrays Fever Stoats Pack, Trip Storks Mustering, Muster Swallows Flight, Gulp Swans (General) Bevy, Bank, Herd Swans (Flight) Wedge, Flight Swifts Flock Teal Spring Termites Colony, Nest, Swarm, Brood Thrush Mutation Tigers Streak, Ambush Toads Knot, Knab, Nest Trout Hover Turkeys Rafter, Gang, Posse Turtles Bale, Nest, Turn, Dole Turtle Doves Pitying, Dule Vipers Generation, Nest Vultures Venue Vultures (Circling) Kettle Walruses Herd, Pod Wasps Nest, Swarm Waterfowl Knob, Plump Weasles Gang, Colony, Pack Whales Pod, Gam, Herd, School, Mod Widgeons Company Wildfowl Plump Wolves (General) Pack Wolves (Moving) Route, Rout Wombats Wisdom Woodcocks Fall Woodpeckers Descent Worms Bed, Clew, Bunch, Clat Wrens Herd Zebras Zeal, Crossing, Dazzle, Cohorts, Herd Another animal group that you may consider is a nag of wives and a jerk of husbands.