Collective Nouns

 

The English language has some wonderfully anthropomorphic collective nouns for the various groups of animals.


We are all familiar with a

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Herd of cows,

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a Flock of chickens,

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a School of fish


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and a Gaggle of geese.

However, less widely known is:

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a Pride of lions,

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a Murder of crows

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(as well as their cousins the rooks and ravens),

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an Exaltation of doves

and, presumably because they look so wise:

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a Congress of owls.

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Now consider a group of Baboons.
They are the loudest, most dangerous, most obnoxious, most viciously aggressive and least intelligent of all primates.

 

And what is the proper collective noun for a group of baboons?
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Believe it or not ……. a Parliament


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A PARLIAMENT OF BABOONS!

I guess that pretty much explains the things that come out from the Parliament


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You just can’t make this stuff up.