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Collective Terms for Groups of Animals

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animal	group or collective term	notes

camels	flock
	herd
	caravan	with merchandise
	train	as a column

capercailzes	tok

capons	mews

caribou	herd

cats	clowder
	cluster or clutter
	glaring

cats, wild	destruction
cats, wild	dowt or dout	also (perhaps erroneously) `dour'

caterpillars	army

cattle	drift	when driven in a group
	drove	when driven in a group
	herd
	mob

chamois	herd

chickens	brood	standard
	cletch or clutch
	peep	possibly fanciful

chinchilla	colony

choughs	chattering
choughs	clattering

clams	bed	strictly, a place where they grow together

cockles	bed	strictly, a place where they grow together

colts	rack, rag, or rake

conies	bury or bery
conies	game

coots	covert
	flock
	pod
	rasp
	shoal	swimming

cormorants	flight

coyotes	pack

cranes	herd
cranes	siege or sedge

crocodiles	bask
crocodiles	nest

crows	hover	perhaps properly used of rooks
	murder
	parcel

cubs	litter	standard

curlew	herd

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