Names of Animal Groups

Everything Everywhere Daily

Gary Arndt

History, Education

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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The English language is weird. We have words that are spelled the same but sound different. We have words that are spelled differently but sound the same. We have words that sound nothing like how they are spelled, and a host of exceptions that you just have to know and remember. …and then for some reason, we have totally different arbitrary words for different groups of animals. In fact, we have a lot of those words. Learn more about the words we have for groups of animals and why they exist on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors Newspapers.com Get 20% off your subscription to Newspapers.com Quince Go to quince.com/daily for 365-day returns, plus free shipping on your order! Mint Mobile Get your 3-month Unlimited wireless plan for just 15 bucks a month at mintmobile.com/eed Jerry Compare quotes and coverages side-by-side from up to 50 top insurers at jerry.ai/daily. Subscribe to the podcast! https://everything-everywhere.com/everything-everywhere-daily-podcast/ -------------------------------- Executive Producer: Charles Daniel Associate Producers: Austin Oetken & Cameron Kieffer Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhere Discord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFh Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/everythingeverywheredaily Twitter: https://twitter.com/everywheretrip Website: https://everything-everywhere.com/ Disce aliquid novi cotidie Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The English language is weird.
0:03.0	We have words that are spelled the same but sound different, and we have words that are spelled
0:07.0	differently but sound the same.
0:09.0	We have some words that sound nothing like how they're spelled, and a host of exceptions
0:13.0	that you just kind of have to know and remember.
0:16.0	And then for some reason, we have totally different, arbitrary words for different groups of animals. In fact,
0:23.1	we have a lot of those words. Learn more about the words we have for groups of animals and why
0:29.7	they exist on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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1:04.1	I'm sure that most of you have realized that the English language has a lot of different words for groups of animals.
1:10.7	In fact, each animal seems to have its own word for a lot of different words for groups of animals. In fact, each animal
1:11.9	seems to have its own word for a group of them. Some of those you might be familiar with,
1:16.9	but there's a good chance you probably haven't heard even a fraction of the collective
1:21.2	nouns that are associated with different species of animals. The ones you're probably
1:25.9	familiar with include a pride of lions, a pack of wolves,
1:30.7	a giggle of geese, a pot of whales, a murder of crows, and a brood of chickens. And of course,
1:36.9	the name that was very popular in the 1980s, a flock of seagulls. However, this is barely
1:43.1	scratching the surface of the words that exist.
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