Have you by any chance come across a flock of birds or a swarm of backyard pests and your first thought was what do we call this group of animals officially? Most of us rely on collective nouns like ...

Language is full of surprises, but few corners of the English lexicon are as delightfully bizarre as the collective nouns used to describe groups of animals. Forget “a group of crows” or “some sharks” ...

If you’ve ever stumbled across a ‘charm of goldfinches’ or a ‘crash of rhinos’, you’ll know that the names we give groups of animals can be particularly poetic in the English language. Some of them ...

Sure, you could just slap an “s” on the end of “bear” and people will know what you mean. But most animals actually have a unique name for their collective group. Though uncommon, these are all unique ...