![]() ![]() Porcupines may be small, but they are mighty Their collective nouns of prickle, bed, and rump are a testament to their strength in numbers. Porcupines are herbivores and mostly eat plants. The following are a comprehensive live list of animal collective nouns, for your reference and ease of perusal. Porcupines have over 30,000 quills on their body. When it comes to animals, things can get a bit tricky, since animals are creatures that roam either on their own, like a lone wolf other times, they live in groups, such as any of the herd species.īecause of the variety of ways in which animals live with respect to quantity or count, English has evolved to reflect their ways of social or asocial living. In English, nouns (which are names given to people, places, things and ideas) come in two kinds, singular or plural, as mentioned in the above section. We’re not talking about the band, Animal Collective, though they do make good music. Phrases like a pack of wolves, or a herd of bison, or a school of fish. Meanwhile, the more traditional collective noun for sharks is a ‘shoal’. You could refer to a ‘frenzy of sharks’ when they are particularly fierce. There are a few other collective nouns that are also used to describe sharks. Plural nouns refers to more than one person, place, thing or idea. Some nouns in the English language, Im relieved to say, make logical sense in referring to a group or collection of animals. So it’s only fitting that a group of sharks is called a shiver. Grammar rule: singular nouns refers to one subject or object. Language is structured to reflect the count of subjects (or sentence objects) by distinguishing between when there is one of something, or more than one: i.e., singular and plural noun forms. When we speak or write, we communicate in count or number even if we don’t consciously realize it. In the lists which follow, terms marked with a + belong to the 15th-century list of 'proper terms' contained in the Book of St Albans. A collective noun is a special kind of noun that refers to a collection of objectsoften animalssuch as a flock of birds, or a pride of lions. We hope you find these names entertaining, at the very least. Want to impress whilst on a safari game drive Here’s the perfect list to brush up your knowledge of collective nouns for animals you might see. Here is a list of collective nouns by subject. Regale in the absurdity of these animal collective group names, such as an implausibility of gnus, or a mischief of mice. Business: An apt term for a group of busy ferrets. It’s safe to say that this list is pretty wild, pun intended. Collectives for lesser-known or more specific animals include: Drift or Parade: When referring to a group of pigs. A list of all the animal collective group namesĭid you know that animals have collective noun terms? This post is ALL about them: we cover the names for animal collectives, broken down by species and animal type. The collective nouns for animals are often bizarre (e.g., an 'opera' of canaries, a 'whoop' of chimpanzees).
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