Weird Names for Groups of Animals
It's a business of flies! How many of these collective nouns for animals do you know?
What do you call a group of pugs?
This isn't a trick question, it's a 'grumble' of pugs (and we can see why)
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A romp of otters
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A prickle of porcupines...makes sense
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A troubling of goldfish
...eh? They look pretty relaxed to us!
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A rhumba of rattlesnakes
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A sloth of bears
There's no such thing as a bear of sloths though. That would be silly.
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A business of flies
This one suits those hard-working flies perfectly, doesn't it?
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