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 Collective Terms for Groups of Animals beginning with T.





animal group or collective term notes
 
teal bunch  
coil  
knob  
raft a dense flock
spring  
 
thrushes mutation  
 
tigers ambush possibly fanciful
 
toads knob  
knot  
nest  
 
trout hover  
shoal  
 
tunnies flote (float)  
troup (troop)  
 
turkeys (male) posse  
 
turkeys rafter  
 
turtles bale possibly an error for `a dule of turtles' (i.e. turtledoves)
turn  
 



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