Animal groups

I got a call from my dear friend MK this weekend, closing the loop on a very important question that surfaced during the Road Trip: what is a group of deer called? Well if you didn't know (and we didn't, but speculated much) it's a herd.

So for those of you that enjoy interesting tidbits:

alligator > congregation or pod (if it's little guys)
bat > colony
beaver > colony
butterfly > swarm
camel > flock
cat > clutter, clowder (what?) and the female is called the queen
cattle > herd or drift or drove or mob, but apparently you can't say "cow herd" (as the female is the cow)
crow > murder or muster
deer are a herd or a mob (who doesn't love the mob)
elephant > herd or parade
falcon > cast
ferrett > business
flog > army or knot
gerbil > horde (oh yea, here comes that horde of gerbil...oh my)
goat > herd or ribe or trip
geese > glock or gaggle (I love gaggle)
gorilla > band
guinea pig > group
hampster > also horde (as the horde of hampster go up against the horde of gerbil)
hippopotamus > herd or bloat (how insulting, bloat)
lion > pride
llama > herd
mole > labor (we have lots of moles around here, pushing up the yard all over the place)
otter > family or raft or romp (ha..romp..funny)
owl > parliament
prarie dog > coterie or town
racoon > nursery or gaze
rhinoceros > crash (well that is fitting isn't it)
seal > herd, pod, rookery or harem
tiger > ambush or streak (also fitting I think)
toad > knot
turkey > rafter
weasel > gang
woodpecker > decent
zebra > herd or crossing (haha...get it crossing, stripes...haha)