You probably know that a group of wolves is called a pack or that a group of puppies is called a litter, but there are many collective nouns for animals that are much less well-known and frankly very strange.
Find the oddest of these collective nouns in the slides below:
A shrewdness of apes
Chimpanzees in Kibale National Park in Uganda.Yannick Tylle via Getty Images
A congregation of alligators
REUTERS/Carlos Jasso
A cete of badgers
REUTERS/Russell Cheyne
A cauldron of bats
Flickr / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters
A sloth or sleuth of bears
Bears in Grand Teton National Park.Johnny Johnson via Getty Images
A gang or an obstinacy of buffalo
Two buffaloes gather by the waters of the Chebayesh marsh in Nassiriya, southeast of Baghdad, February 11, 2015. Picture taken February 11, 2015. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Marjani
A clowder, clutter, pounce, dout, nuisance, glorying, or a glare of cats
Cats crowd around village nurse and Ozu city official Atsuko Ogata as she carries a bag of cat food to the designated feeding place on Aoshima Island in Ehime prefecture in southern Japan February 25, 2015.REUTERS/Thomas Peter
An army of caterpillars
Caterpillars walking on leaf.Oleksandr Chornyi via Getty Images
A caravan of camels
CamelsJohn M Lund Photography Inc via Getty Images
A coalition of cheetahs
CheetahsPradeep Ravi / 500px via Getty Images
A murder of crows
CrowsDavid Akers / 500px via Getty Images
A cowardice of dogs
DogsAlexandra Robins via Getty Images
A pod of dolphins
Dolphins and whales jump out of the water at a media preview for the Epson Aqua Park Shinagawa aquarium's re-opening in Tokyo, July 6, 2015.REUTERS/Toru Hanai
A pace of donkeys
Matt Cardy / Stringer / Getty Images
A convocation of eagles
REUTERS/ Lucy Nicholson
A parade of elephants
Mario Tama/Getty
A gang of elk
An elk herd in Colorado.David Zalubowski/AP
A business of ferrets
FerretTina Riches / EyeEm via Getty Images
A flamboyance of flamingos
Snow falls on a flock of flamingos standing on a snow-covered field at a wildlife zoo in Hefei, Anhui province January 29, 2015. REUTERS/Stringer
A leash, skulk, or earth of foxes
Bob Hilscher/Getty Images
An army of frogs
FrogsAmarasiri Peasena Wigemanna / 500px via Getty Images
A tower of giraffes
GiraffesJames Warwick via Getty Images
Shutterstock/Gorb Andrii
A gorilla sits in it's enclosure at London Zoo February 16, 2008.Kevin Coombs
A bloat, or a thunder of hippopotamuses
HipposImage Source via Getty Images
A cackle of hyenas
Frank Bienewald/LightRocket via Getty Images
A shadow of jaguars
JaguarDeAgostini/Getty Images
A smack of jellyfish
JellyfishPhotography by Zack Podratz via Getty Images
Near the northern tip of the Antarctic peninsula, a group of Adelie penguins launch themselves from an iceberg into the frigid waters of the ocean.Jay Dickman/Getty Images
A drift, drove, sounder, team, or passel of pigs
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A prickle of porcupines
PorcupinesMartin Harvey via Getty Images
An unkindness of ravens
Raven`Ugo Bukudjian / EyeEm via Getty Images
A colony or warren of rabbits
RabbitsFiona McAllister Photography via Getty Images
A crash of rhinoceroses
Courtesy of San Diego Zoo
A building of rooks
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A maelstrom of salamanders
Sirac Karadeniz/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
A dray or scurry of squirrels
SquirrelsVicki Jauron, Babylon and Beyond Photography via Getty Images
A bevy, game, or wedge of swans
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An ambush or streak of tigers
TigersMark Newman via Getty Images
A rafter, gang, or posse of turkeys
TurkeysNick David via Getty Images
A venue of vultures
File photo of vultures feasting on a road kill in Great Falls VirginiaThomson Reuters
A gam, pod, or herd of whales
A pod of sperm whales swimming underwater.Getty Images
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