Collective Nouns
African Animals
Do you know your dazzles from your barrels? Your parliaments from your cackles? While most collective nouns for groups of animals are rather fanciful and not often actually used by wildlife biologists, they are an awful lot of fun! So let us take you through some of our favourite collective nouns for African animals.
A dazzle of zebras
A tower of giraffes (standing still)
A journey of giraffes (on the move)
A leap of leopards
A cackle of hyena
A flamboyance of flamingoes
A barrel of monkeys
A pride of lions
A parade of elephants
A crash of rhinos
A parliament of owls
A shiver of sharks
A coalition of cheetah
A troop of chimpanzees
A bask of crocodiles