Pyewacket  +  130325 Wed, 24 Aug 05 06:10 PM Do you know the words used to talk about groups of animals? For example: A pride of lions A murder of crows A troop of.... A band of.... A tribe of... .... Please list the ones you know... Pyewacket Joined on Wed, Jul 13 2005 Northern California, USA Junior Member 67 "The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware." -- Henry Miller

	Clive  +  130334 Wed, 24 Aug 05 07:05 PM Hi, A troop of....hyenas, baboons. A band of ... primitive people? A tribe of...I believe this is a classification term used by zoologists. A gaggle of ... grammarians? While this is fun to discuss here, I hope you realize that terms like 'a murder of crows' are not prat of normal, modern English. (Same thing for words for groups of fruits and vegetables, like 'a hand of bananas'.) Best wishes, Clive Clive Joined on Thu, Oct 28 2004 Canada Veteran Member 29,630 El tango argentino es un pensamiento triste que se puede bailar (The tango argentino is a sad thought which can be danced) Enrique Santos Discépolo

	LanguageLover  +  130363 Wed, 24 Aug 05 08:18 PM school of fish   LanguageLover Joined on Fri, Feb 25 2005 Contributing Member 1,507 The similarities among the languages are more than their differences!

	nona the brit  +  130403 Wed, 24 Aug 05 11:03 PM Herd of cows/horses/deer/elephants/zebras....herd is very common for groups of large animals Flock of sheep/hens Gaggle of geese       nona the brit Joined on Wed, Sep 22 2004 England Veteran Member 11,713 The name says it all.

	LanguageLover  +  130420 Thu, 25 Aug 05 12:07 AM And flock of birds, thanks to you Nona. LanguageLover

	LanguageLover  +  130423 Thu, 25 Aug 05 12:20 AM Here are two detailed lists: http://dictionary.reference.com/writing/styleguide/animal.html http://www.indianchild.com/babyanimalnames.htm LanguageLover

	Pyewacket  +  132073 Tue, 30 Aug 05 05:46 AM  LanguageLover wrote: school of fish a colony of ants a swarm of bees a litter of kittens a pack of dogs .... What more do you know? Pyewacket

	Pyewacket  +  132081 Tue, 30 Aug 05 06:02 AM  LanguageLover wrote: Here are two detailed lists: http://dictionary.reference.com/writing/styleguide/animal.html http://www.indianchild.com/babyanimalnames.htm Cool sites LanguageLover!!!   Pyewacket