What do you call a group of beavers?
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Colony
A beaver colony is a family: the parent pair, this year's kits and last year's young.
💡 Did you know? Beavers pair for life: if one partner dies, the other looks for a new one.
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What do you call a group of rabbits in their burrow system?
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Warren
Wild rabbits dig branching burrows where several families live side by side.
💡 Did you know? Hares, by contrast, are loners and dig no burrow at all: they crouch in a shallow scrape.
What do you call a group of bats in a roost?
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Colony
In maternity colonies the females raise their young together, often in attics.
💡 Did you know? Some colonies use the same roost for decades.
What do you call a group of badgers in a sett?
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Cete
Setts are extended over generations and can hold hundreds of metres of tunnels.
💡 Did you know? Badgers dig separate latrines: the sett itself stays remarkably clean.
What do you call a group of whales?
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Pod
Among toothed whales the pod often stays together for life.
💡 Did you know? Orca pods have their own call dialects that differ from group to group.
What do you call a group of dolphins?
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Pod
Pods can join into superpods of several hundred animals.
💡 Did you know? Dolphins have signature whistles that work much like names.
What do you call a group of baboons?
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Troop
A baboon troop can hold more than a hundred animals under a strict hierarchy.
💡 Did you know? On the move the troop keeps formation: experienced animals guard front and rear.
What do you call a group of gorillas?
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Troop
A troop is led by a silverback, with several females and their offspring.
💡 Did you know? Gorilla troops are peaceful; the silverback's displays are mostly bluff.
What do you call a group of hyenas?
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Clan
A spotted hyena clan can hold 80 animals and is led by females.
💡 Did you know? Female spotted hyenas are larger than males and outrank every one of them.
What do you call a group of moose?
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Herd
Moose are mostly solitary; only in winter do they gather into loose herds.
💡 Did you know? The moose is the largest living deer: bulls exceed 700 kilograms.
What do you call a group of seals on a beach?
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Colony
On North Sea sandbanks hundreds gather to rest and moult.
💡 Did you know? Seals can dive for over 30 minutes, slowing their heartbeat dramatically.
What do you call a breeding group of storks?
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Colony
In stork villages dozens of nests stand close together on roofs and poles.
💡 Did you know? Storks clatter instead of calling: their vocal apparatus is strongly reduced.
What do you call a group of flamingos?
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Flamboyance
The everyday word is colony; 'flamboyance' is the traditional term of venery.
💡 Did you know? The pink comes from their food, without crustaceans and algae flamingos stay white.
What do you call the community of a termite mound?
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Colony
A termite colony can hold millions and ventilate its mound for decades.
💡 Did you know? Termites are not ants: their closest relatives are cockroaches.
What do you call a loose group of fish, as opposed to a tightly packed one?
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Shoal
In a school all fish move in the same direction and close together; a shoal stays looser.
💡 Did you know? Many species switch: at the first sign of danger a shoal turns into a tight school.
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