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15.8 - There's More than One of Us

Read a book with a word in the title or subtitle from this list of collective nouns for animals . https://www.treehugger.com/strange-co... (Collective animal names)
The word must be the collective name, not the name of the specific animal, and extraneous words (such as "a" "or") cannot be used. Words must match exactly, except for plurals and possessives.
REQUIRED: state the animal used
For example,
"Bats: a cauldron" - the word is "cauldron" - Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble

Mammals and Marsupials
• Apes: a shrewdness
• Badgers: a cete
• Bats: a cauldron
• Bears: a sloth or sleuth
• Buffalo: a gang or obstinacy
• Cats: a clowder, pounce or glaring; for kittens: a kindle, litter or intrigue
• Dogs: a litter (puppies), pack (wild) or cowardice (curs)
• Donkeys: a pace
• Elephants: a parade
• Elk: a gang
• Ferrets: a business
• Fox: a leash, skulk or earth
• Giraffes: a tower
• Goats: a tribe or trip
• Gorillas: a band
• Hippopotamuses: a bloat or thunder
• Hyenas: a cackle
• Jaguars: a shadow
• Kangaroos: a troop or mob
• Lemurs: a conspiracy
• Leopards: a leap
• Lions: a pride or sawt
• Martens: a richness
• Moles: a labor
• Monkeys: a troop or barrel
• Mules: a pack, span or barren
• Otters: a romp
• Pigs: a drift, drove, sounder, team or passel
• Porcupines: a prickle
• Porpoises: a pod, school, herd or turmoil
• Rabbits: a colony, warren, nest, down, husk or herd (domestic only)
• Rhinoceroses: a crash
• Squirrels: a dray or scurry
• Tigers: an ambush or streak
• Whales: a pod, gam or herd
• Wolves: a pack, rout or route (when in movement)
Birds
• Bitterns: a sedge
• Buzzards: a wake
• Bobolinks: a chain
• Coots: a cover
• Cormorants: a gulp
• Crows: a murder or horde
• Dotterel: a trip
• Doves: a dule or pitying (specific to turtle doves)
• Ducks: a brace, team, flock (in flight), raft (on water), paddling or badling
• Eagles: a convocation
• Finches: a charm
• Flamingos: a stand
• Geese: a flock, gaggle (on the ground) or skein (in flight)
• Grouse: a pack (in late season)
• Hawks: a cast, kettle (in flight) or boil (two or more spiraling in air)
• Herons: a sedge or siege
• Jays: a party or scold
• Lapwings: a deceit
• Larks: an exaltation
• Mallards: a sord (in flight) or brace
• Magpies: a tiding, gulp, murder or charm
• Nightingales: a watch
• Owls: a parliament
• Parrots: a pandemonium or company
• Partridge: a covey
• Peafowl: an ostentation or muster
• Penguins: a colony, muster, parcel or rookery
• Pheasant: a nest, nide (a brood), nye or bouquet
• Plovers: a congregation or wing (in flight)
• Ptarmigans: a covey
• Rooks: a building
• Quail: a bevy or covey
• Ravens: an unkindness
• Snipe: a walk or wisp
• Sparrows: a host
• Starlings: a murmuration
• Storks: a mustering
• Swans: a bevy, game or wedge (in flight)
• Teal: a spring
• Turkeys: a rafter or gang
• Woodcocks: a fall
• Woodpeckers: a descent
Reptiles and Amphibians
• Cobras: a quiver
• Crocodiles: a bask
• Frogs: an army
• Toads: a knot
• Turtles: a bale or nest
• Salamanders: a maelstrom
• Snakes, vipers: a nest
Fish
• Fish in general: a draft, nest, run, school or shoal
• Herring: an army
• Sharks: a shiver
• Trout: a hover
Invertebrates
• Bees: a grist, hive or swarm
• Caterpillars: an army
• Clams: a bed
• Crabs: a consortium
• Cockroaches: an intrusion
• Flies: a business
• Grasshoppers: a cloud
• Jellyfish: a bloom, fluther or smack
• Lobsters: a risk
• Oysters: a bed
• Snails: a hood
• Squid: an audience

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Could you put a list here in the help thread? The website you list keeps locking up my computer.

Kathy wrote: "Could you put a list here in the help thread? The website you list keeps locking up my computer."

When I can get to it.

Sandy wrote: "Kathy wrote: "Could you put a list here in the help thread? The website you list keeps locking up my computer."

When I can get to it."

Thanks, that will help my blood pressure!

It’s been in the help thread for about a week now!