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The English language has some wonderfully anthropomorphic collective nouns for the various groups of animals. We are all familiar with a a flock of chickens, a school of fish and a gaggle of geese. Perhaps
less widely known is:
a pride of lions, a murder of crows (as well as their cousins the rooks and ravens), an exaltation of doves and, presumably because they look so wise: a parliament of owls. They are the loudest, most dangerous, most obnoxious, most viciously aggressive and sex-perverted of all primates. And what is the proper collective noun for a group of baboons? ? ? ? ? ? Believe it or not a Congress! A CONGRESS OF BABOONS! |