Collective Terms for Animals

This section is a pretty comprehensive list of Collective Terms for Animals. Many will be familiar but others will be unheard of, deriving from 15th century witticisms or literary imagination, and some are simply archaic or erroneous. There are also some terms for pairs of animals and groups of three animals.


The list has been arranged alphabetically.


Here is the list of Terms for Animals beginning with E.

animal	group or collective term	notes
eels	fry	properly, a name for the young of fishes, not a collective
	swarm
eland	herd
elephants	herd
elk	gang
	herd