Top 9 Nouns for a Group of Animals

Garrick van Buren January 23, 2011 3 Comments

an apocalypse of snakes
a pot of water buffalos
a tower of giraffes
a boil of hawks
a sneak of weasels
a cabinet of yaks
a smack of jellyfish
a cream of turkeys
a bale of turtles

Culled from Wikipedia’s List of Animal Names

3 replies on “Top 9 Nouns for a Group of Animals”

Wojciech says:

January 27, 2011 at 1:02 pm

I thought it’s a kind of joke (just less than obvious for a non-native English speaker) and tried to wrap my head around it, until I noticed Wikipedia link. Awesome!

Well, 2. through 9. at least. Number one is not on the Wikipedia. It was too good to be true anyway (-:
Garrick Van Buren says:

January 28, 2011 at 1:34 pm

Wojciech – drat – foiled by the continuous edit-ability of the wiki.
Here’s the revision that included an apocalypse of snakes
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