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 ...

What businesses are these ferrets running, and what conspiracies are these lemurs devising? It's a question that you might be asking after learning that a group of ferrets is called a business, while ...

The phrase “a murder of crows” has survived more than five centuries of English usage, tracing back to a printed book from ...

I’m mystified by the origin of animal groups’ names, like a murder of crows or a congregation of alligators. I am not looking for a complex, scientific reason. I understand the classification of ...