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The 11 most perfect collective nouns for animals

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A group of ferrets is called a business.

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A group of hedgehogs is called a prickle.

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A group of otters is called a romp.

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A group of giraffes is called a tower.

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A group of hippos is called a bloat.

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A group of penguins is called a huddle.

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A group of owls is called a parliament.

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A group of lizards is called a lounge.

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A group of mice is called a mischief.

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A group of cats is called a pounce.

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And a group of rhinos is called a crash.

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Dave Sherman 08/03/13 #

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A dose of squirts

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- Eoin Donovan 08/03/13 #
  
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  The most I’ve laughed all week!
  
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- Antoinette Duffy 09/03/13 #
  
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  A tightness of Cavanmen
  
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- Jamie McCormack 09/03/13 #
  
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  a waffle of politicians
  
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- fiona gaffney 09/03/13 #
  
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  A boll ..x of lawyers
  
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Liam Brady 08/03/13 #

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A mince of horses..

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Stephen Hughes 09/03/13 #

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A shower of hoors

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Ian Aston 08/03/13 #

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A sandwich of fish fingers

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Jamie McCormack 08/03/13 #

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A blessing of unicorns, and a murder of crows : )

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- Bo11ocks_to_this 08/03/13 #
  
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  Anyone else watch A Spy in the Huddle on the BBC?
  
  I so want a pet penguin. Extremely awfully cute!!
  
  ;)
  
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- Mairead Hynes 09/03/13 #
  
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  a smack of jellyfish!
  
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Ronan Jameson 08/03/13 #

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A cacophony of Spanish students.

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Dermot Fennelly 08/03/13 #

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A lash of pints :-)

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- Ian Aston 08/03/13 #
  
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  Is it not a rake of pints? :)
  
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- Daffy TheBear 08/03/13 #
  
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  A deluge of disappointments..
  
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Mumble Mumble 09/03/13 #

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A pair of tits.

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- Harry Martin 09/03/13 #
  
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  A Toss of w***kers !
  
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- Ann Mc Kennedy 09/03/13 #
  
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  Excellent mumble mumble! I spat out me tea with the laughing!!
  
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- Eoin Troy 09/03/13 #
  
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  Ha
  
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Mary 08/03/13 #

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A murmuration of starlings

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Deirdre Donaghy 08/03/13 #

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I was wrong – it’s a murder of crows, an unkindness of ravens. The ravens must have a better pr machine…

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Niamh Byrne 08/03/13 #

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I HAVE to do this… It’s a bike of bees…yes, it is..check it.

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Ciara Lawler 08/03/13 #

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A flange of baboons and a implausibility of gnus are my personal favourites.

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Dwickedchicken 08/03/13 #

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A hape of Guinness.

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Leslie Alan Rock 08/03/13 #

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Love that ferret picture. Like he was expecting the camera.

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ognetty 08/03/13 #

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A philander of footballers.

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John Murphy 09/03/13 #

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A langer load of leopards. Or so the fella in Fota told me…

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Darragh Feiritear 08/03/13 #

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An unkindness of ravens. Outside of the animal kingdom you have a pontification of prelates, a superfluity of nuns, a wolfpack of submarines, and Shakespeare once described ‘a cry of players (actors)’. My favourite one that I heard though was a jam of tarts.

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- Darragh Feiritear 08/03/13 #
  
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  Strangely enough, James Lipton (he of Inside the Actors Studio fame) has a buke on the subject, ‘An Exaltation of Larks’. I’ll stick to my Beanos but it’s nice to know it’s out there anyway.
  
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Shea Fitzgerald 09/03/13 #

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A wunch of bankers…

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- Dexter Gordon 09/03/13 #
  
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  Cleverest so far ;-)
  
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dna30 08/03/13 #

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A flamboyance of flamingos!

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Lester Jeffcoat 09/03/13 #

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A bag of crisps.

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- RP McMurphy 09/03/13 #
  
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  @Lester….funny.
  
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ptriley 08/03/13 #

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A congress of baboons and it also applies to bishops who are quite similar

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Dhakina's Sword 09/03/13 #

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A murder of crows has to be the winner. A mob of kangaroos is interesting, but doesn’t have the implied sense of menace, that a bunch of murderous crows have.

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danny sheehan 09/03/13 #

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a dose of the shits

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Jamie McCormack 09/03/13 #

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what would you call a load of trolls gathered together?

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- Irish Red 09/03/13 #
  
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  A Journal of trolls
  
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- Dónal O'Flynn 09/03/13 #
  
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  A bridge of trolls?
  
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- Dónal O'Flynn 09/03/13 #
  
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  http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090109062218AA0he3o
  A “Deviousness” of Trolls according to Yahoo Answers
  
  http://ergosphere.blogspot.ie/2007/12/irritation-of-trolls.html
  My personal favourite from this blog: An “irritation” of Trolls
  
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Daffy TheBear 09/03/13 #

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Gaggle of gee-bags..

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divide by zero 09/03/13 #

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A bandwagon of Munster supporters…

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Sam Rhodes 08/03/13 #

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I thought cats were a clouder or a glaring?

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Roy Scott 08/03/13 #

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Any seen the Shower of ministers ?

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Anneliese Schnittger 09/03/13 #

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A loveliness of ladybirds!

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Keith Holland 09/03/13 #

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An ugly of walruses. Personal favourite

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Fiona Balfe 09/03/13 #

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Best laugh I’ve had all week! :D

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Ailís McKernan 08/03/13 #

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An ubiquity of sparrows and a chattering of choughs. A company of parrots and a grumble of pugs. A piddle of puppies.

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- Paul Sheehan 09/03/13 #
  
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  A dose of crabs
  
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Danielle Reck 09/03/13 #

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Group of cats is a ‘clowder’or a ‘glaring’ not a pounce

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White Strand Lodge 08/03/13 #

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More than one batter sausage is called a nigs!!

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- Jamie McCormack 09/03/13 #
  
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  a feed of sausages
  
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Thomas Lyndon 10/03/13 #

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I think you’ll find it’s a shower of bastards.

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Martin Greene 10/03/13 #

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A conclave of paedophiles

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Kate Horgan 09/03/13 #

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An attack of the heebie-jeebies.

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Seamus Flynn 09/03/13 #

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A wake of Buzzards
An intrusion Cockroaches

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Joe Harney 10/03/13 #

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A barfull of T.D’s

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Larry Sneeg 09/03/13 #

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http://www.englishclub.com/vocabulary/animal-terms.htm

Correct terms above

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Larry Sneeg 09/03/13 #

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A liar of Endas

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Patrice Auburn 09/03/13 #

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A herd of deaf people?

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Deirdre Donaghy 08/03/13 #

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A murder of ravens.

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- Harry Martin 09/03/13 #
  
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  A Stable of burger’s.
  
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- Michael Nyhan 09/03/13 #
  
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  It’s an unkindness of ravens!
  
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Gary wynne 08/03/13 #

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What’s with the animals??? How about some cars like this so called Provo that’s coming..

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- Leslie Alan Rock 08/03/13 #
  
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  Or flegs
  
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- Jordan Salanger 09/03/13 #
  
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  A bunch of C*n*s!
  I know this wont get comment of the week but it sure should get a good laugh!
  
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- Seamus Holohan 09/03/13 #
  
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  A shower of cnuts
  
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Áine O'Reilly 09/03/13 #

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A murder of crows

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- Dexter Gordon 09/03/13 #
  
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  Where have you been Aine?
  
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- Áine O'Reilly 09/03/13 #
  
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  I know, I didn’t read all the previous comments, lesson learnt!
  
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- My Anarchic Trek 09/03/13 #
  
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  A sty of politicians.
  
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