Language is full of surprises, but few corners of the English lexicon are as delightfully bizarre as the collective nouns used to describe groups of animals. Forget “a group of crows” or “some sharks” ...

If you’ve ever stumbled across a ‘charm of goldfinches’ or a ‘crash of rhinos’, you’ll know that the names we give groups of animals can be particularly poetic in the English language. Some of them ...

If you play trivia regularly this will be good information for you. Animals that are gathered together in a group have some very unusual names. Let’s warm up with some well-known common examples. We ...