The English language has some wonderfully anthropomorphic collective nouns for the various groups of animals.It took me a minute to regain my composure after reading this one...
We are all familiar with a:
Herd of cows,
Flock of chickens,
School of fish
Gaggle of geese.
Pride of lions,
However, less widely known is:
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.
Now consider a group of Baboons. They are the loudest, most dangerous, most obnoxious, most viciously aggressive and least intelligent of all primates.
And what is the proper collective noun for a group of baboons?
Believe it or not ……. a Congress!
That is all.
7 comments:
Jenny S keeps telling me I need to move to Alaska.
Articles like this help make her point!
Pretty mean to the poor owls.
One incompetent man is a disgrace; two, a law firm, and three or more become a Congress!!
Glad you liked it :-)
I knew the crow one(and would've been able to answer it correctly and swiftly), however while I'm sure I've heard the others before(the owl one sounds especially familiar), I wouldn't have been able to answer those.
Very fitting with the baboons. :)
A conspiracy of attorneys
And a patchouli of hippies ...
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