Collective noun for animals.

            
     
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Animal Groups / Animal Babies

A table giving the collective noun for various animals as well as names given to animal young. 

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
     
Animal Animal Group Baby
Alligator -  A congregation or pod (young). A hatchling.
Antelopes -  A herd. A calf.
Ants -  A colony.  
Apes -  A shrewdness. A baby.
Asses -  A herd or pace.  
Badgers

A cete.

A kit or cub.
Bats -  A colony. A pup.
Bears -  A sloth or sleuth. A cub.
Beavers -  A colony of beavers. A pup or kitten.
Bees -  A grist, hive, swarm, drift or bike. A larva.
Birds -  A flock, flight or parcel. A pod (small flock). A volary (in an aviary).  A hatchling or chick.
Bison - A herd. A calf.
Bitterns - A sedge.  
Boar - A sounder or singular. A piglet, shoat or farrow.
Buffalo - A herd, gang or obstinacy. A calf.
Bullocks - A drove.  
Butterflies -  A flutter. A caterpillar, larve, pupa or chrysalis
Buzzards - A wake.  
Camels - A caravan. A calf.
Caterpillars - An army.  
Cattle - A herd, drove or drift. A mob (U.S. and Australia) A calf.
Cats - A clowder or pounce. A litter, kindle or intrigue (kittens). A kitten.
Chickens - A brood or clutch. A chick, pullet or cockrell.
Clams - A bed. A larva.
Cockroaches - An intrusion. A nymph.
Crocodiles -  A bask.  
Crows - A murder or horde. A chick.
Cubs - A litter.  
Deer - A herd of mob. A fawn.
Dogs - A pack (wild dogs) or kennel. A litter of puppies. A pup.
Dolphins - A school. A pup or calf.
Donkeys - A herd. A colt or foal.
Doves - A flight, dule or dole. A squab or chick.
Ducks - A raft or bunch (ducks on water). A team, brace or flock (ducks in flight). A duckling.
Eagles - A convocation. A fledgling or eaglet.
Elephants - A herd or parade. A calf.
Elk - A herd or gang (US). A calf.
Ferrets - A business. A kit.
Finches - A charm. A chick.
Fish -  A shoal, draft, nest or school. A run (fish in motion). Fry or fingerling.
Flamingoes - A stand.  
Flies - A cloud, business or swarm. Maggots.
Foxes - A skulk, company, leash or earth. A kit, cub or pup.
Frogs - An army. A tadpole, polliwog (US)  or froglet.
Geese A gaggle. A skein, team or wedge (geese in flight). A gosling.
Giraffes - A herd or tower. A calf.
Gnats - A cloud or horde. Larva.
Goats - A flock, herd or tribe. A kid or billy.
Goldfinches - A charm.  
Gorillas - A band. An infant.
Grasshoppers - A cloud. A nymph.
Grouse - A pack or covey.  
Gulls - A colony. A chick.
Hares - A husk, down or mute. A leveret.
Hawks - A cast. A kettle (flying in large numbers). A boil (two or more). An eyas.
Hedgehogs - An array. A piglet or pup.
Hens - A brood.  
Herons - A siege or sedge. A chick.
Herring - An army.  
Hippopotami - A bloat. A calf.
Hornets - A nest. Larva.
Horses - A stud. A string (breeding). A team, harras or rag. A foal or colt (male), a filly (female)
Hounds - A pack, kennel, mute or cry. A pup.
Hyenas - A cackle or clan. A cub.
Insects - A swarm.  
Jellyfish - A smack. Ephyna.
Kangaroos - A mob or troop. A joey.
Koala   A joey.
Kittens - A kindle or litter.  
Larks A bevy.  
Leopards -  A leap. A cub.
Lions - A pride. A cub.
Llama - A herd. A cria.
Locusts - A plague or swarm.  
Louse - A colony or infestation. Nymph.
Magpies - A tittering, tiding, gulp, murder or charm. A chick.
Mallards - A sord or brace. A duckling.
Martens - A richness.  
Moles - A labour. A pup.
Monkeys - A troop or barrel. An infant.
Moose - A herd. A calf.
Mosquito - A swarm. A nymph, wriggler or tumbler.
Mouse - A horde or mischief. A pup, pinkie or kitten.
Mules - A barren, pack or span. A foal.
Nightingales - A watch. A chick.
Opossum -   A joey.
Ostrich - A flock. A chick.
Otters - A family or romp. A whelp or pup.
Owls - A parliament. An owlet.
Oxen - A team or yoke. A stot or calf.
Oysters - A bed. A spat.
Panda -   A cub.
Parrots - A pandemonium or company. A chick.
Partridges - A covey.  
Peafowl - A muster or ostentation.  A peachick.
Penguins - A rookery or colony. A chick.
Pheasants - A head, nye, nest, bouquet, nide or bevy. A chick.
Pigeons - A kit. (Flying together) A squab or squeaker.
Pigs - A herd or litter. A drift, drove or sounder (swine). A team or passel (hogs). A piglet, shoat or farrow.
Platypus -   A puggle.
Ponies - A drove.  
Porcupines - A prickle.  
Porpoises - A herd, school or pod. A calf.
Pups - A litter.  
Quail - A bevy, drift or covey. A chick.
Rabbits - A bury, colony, warren, nest or herd. A litter (young rabbits). A kitten, bunny or kit.
Raccoons - A nursery. A cub.
Racehorses - A string.  
Rats - A colony. A pup, pinkie or kitten.
Ravens - An unkindness.  
Rhinos - A crash. A calf.
Seals - A herd or rookery. A pup.
Sharks - A shiver. A pup.
Sheep - A flock, herd, drove or trip. A lamb, lambkin or cosset.
Skunk - A surfeit. A kit.
Snakes - A bed, nest or pit. A snakelet, neonate or hatchling.
Sparrows - A host.  
Spider -   A spiderling.
Squid  - A school.  
Squirrels - A dray or scurry. A pup, kit or kitten.
Starlings - A murmation.  
Storks - A mustering.  
Swallows - A flight or gulp.  
Swans - A game, herd or bevy. A cygnet or flapper.
Tigers - An ambush or streak. A cub or whelp.
Toads - A knot. A tadpole.
Trout - A hover.  
Turkeys - A rafter or gang. A poult.
Turtles - A bale, nest or turn. A hatchling.
Wallaby - A mob. A joey.
Walrus - A herd or pod. A cub or pup.
Wasp - A colony. Larva.
Weasel - A gang. A kit.
Whales - A school, herd, grind, pod or gam. A calf.
Wolves - A pack or rout. A pup or whelp.
Wombat - A mob. A joey.
Yak - A herd. A calf.
Zebras - A zeal. A colt or foal.

     Last Updated:  4th October 2006

     

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