Here and There

It’s come up a lot lately, ever since that time a few months ago I (embarrassingly) first learned that a group of crows is referred to as a “murder.”

What about other groups of animals? What is a groups of jellyfish called? (smack)

Well, of course the Internet can answer just about any question posed to it.

Enchanted Learning has a wonderfully infantile page with the names of species’ babies and groups.

Some of the best group names:

* a shrewdness of apes
* an obstinacy of buffalo
* a coalition of cheetahs
* a convocation of eagles
* a business (I like to think it’s pronounced BUSY-ness) of ferrets
* a troop of monkeys
* a parliament of owls (my favorite)
* a rookery of penguins
* a crash of rhinoceros
* a descent of woodpeckers

I didn’t find too many charming baby names, though tumbler (baby mosquito) stands out, as does spat (baby oyster). A baby platypus is called a puggle.

Okay, time to get some work done.

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