{"id":12628,"date":"2022-01-20T22:35:19","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T06:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailyfinn.tinafoo.com\/?p=12628"},"modified":"2022-01-20T22:35:19","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T06:35:19","slug":"english-is-weird-animal-group-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyfinn.tinafoo.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/20\/english-is-weird-animal-group-names\/","title":{"rendered":"English is weird: Animal Group Names"},"content":{"rendered":"

I mean, everyone knows that cows and elephants live in herds, wolves in packs, sheep in a flock, and fish in schools\u2026<\/p>\n

But although horses are counted in herds, zebras congregate in a zeal. Cats are found in a clowder, but lions in a pride and leopards in a leap. Frogs, ants, and termites all live in colonies or armies. You can have a pit of vipers or a quiver of cobras or even a rhumba of rattlesnakes.<\/p>\n

Generally birds live in flocks, but\u2026 chickens live in a brood, owls in a parliament, eagles in a convocation, emus in a mob, and crows in a murder! Geese are normally found in a gaggle, but if they are in flight, it\u2019s called a skein! And don\u2019t forget the vultures: a wake when they are crowded around a carcass eating, but a kettle if they are flying, and a committee if they are resting in a tree!<\/p>\n

So weird, and so confusing! Mom says we will address these again numerous times over the years.<\/p>\n

Fortunately this puzzle of big cats was fun to do, no matter what you call them!
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I mean, everyone knows that cows and elephants live in herds, wolves in packs, sheep in a flock, and fish in schools\u2026 But although horses are counted in herds, zebras congregate in a zeal. Cats are found in a clowder, but lions in a pride and leopards in a leap. Frogs, ants, and termites all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfinn.tinafoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12628"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfinn.tinafoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfinn.tinafoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfinn.tinafoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfinn.tinafoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfinn.tinafoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12631,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfinn.tinafoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12628\/revisions\/12631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfinn.tinafoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfinn.tinafoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfinn.tinafoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfinn.tinafoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}