BABY ANIMALS and THEIR GROUP NAMES:

Animals whose babies are called Calves (calf for just one):
Cow Bison Elephant Antelope
Rhinoceros Walrus Dolphin Whale
Giraffe Porpoise Yak Water Buffalo

Animals whose babies are called Kittens:
Cat Porcupine Squirrel

Animals whose babies are called Kits:
Fox Beaver Cat Rabbit
A baby fox can be called a Kit or a Pup!

Animals whose babies are called Pups:
Dog Seal Sea Lion Fox
Prairie Dog Rat Shark Wolf

Baby hedgehogs are called urchins

Fish Babies!
Adult Fish Baby Fish
Fish in general Fry
Codfish Codling
Salmon Smolt
Mackerel Tinker
Herring Sprat
Eel Elver

Insect Babies!
Adult Insect
Baby Insect
Ant Antling
Dragonfly Naiad
Firefly Glowworm

Bird Babies!
Adult Bird
Baby Bird
Birds in general Nestling
Owl Owlet
Turkey Poult
Pigeon Squab
Chicken Chick
Quail Peeper

Group Definitions

Brood: A group of young animals still under their mother’s care.
Flight: A group of birds in flight.
Flock: A group of animals on the ground, as in sheep.
Herd: A group of animals kept together by people, as in cows.
Litter: A group of newborn animals.
School: A group of fish, whales or other sea creatures.
Swarm: A group of insects in motion.

Animals: Group Names

Ants

Colony

Apes

Shrewdness

Baby pigs

Litter or Farrow or Fearh

Badger

Cete or colony

Bear

Sloth

Bees

Swarm

Birds

Flock

Boar

Sounder

Cats

Clowders or clutters!

Cattle

Herd or drove

Clams

Bed

Colts

Rake

Coots

Covert

Deer

Herd or Leash

Dogs

Litter or pack or kennel

Dolphins

Pod

Donkey

Pace or Drove or herd

Dove

Bevy or Cote or piteousness

Ducks

Paddling

Eagles

Convocation

Elephants

Herd

Ferret

Business or fesnying or cast

Finches

Charm

Fish

Schools or shoals

Flamingos

Flock

Foxes

Leash or skulk

Frog

Army or colony or knot

Geese

Gaggle, flock, skein or flight

Goats

Tribe or trip

Goldfish

Charm

Gorillas

Band

Greyhounds

Leash

Hawks

Cast

Hens

Clutch

Herons

Siege

Horses

Herd or stable or harras or team or troop

Kangaroos

Troop or herd or mob

Kittens

Kindle or kendles or litters

Larks

Exaltation

Leopards

Leap

Lions

Sault or troop or Pride

Locusts

Plague

Magpie

Tidings

Marten

Richness

Mallards

Sord

Mole

Labor or movement or company

Monkeys

Troop or tribe or cartload

Mules (team)

Barren or rake or pack or span

Nightingale

Watch or flock

Otters

Family or bevy

Owls

Parliament

Oysters

Bed

Partridges

Covies

Peacocks

Muster or Flock

Penguins

Colony or rhuddles or crhche (nursery group)

Pheasants

Nide

Pigs

Herd or sounder

Plover

Congregation

Polecat

Chine

Quail

Bevies or covies

Rabbits

Drove or trace or down or husk or trip or leash or colony or bury

A nest of young rabbits

Rats

Colony or plague

Ravens

Murder or unkindness

Rhinos

Crash

Rook

Storytelling

Seal

Colony or crash or harem or bob or herd or pod, or team

Sheep

Flock

Snake

Den or pit or nest

Snipe

Whisp

Squirrel

Dray

Starling

Murmuration

Stork

Mustering

Swan

Bevies

Tiger

Ambush

Toads

Knot

Turkey

Rafter

Turtles

Bale

Walrus

Herd or pod

Whales

Gam or Pod (A Pod is a Small Gam)

Wildfowl

Plump

Wolves

Pack or herd or rout or route

Woodpecker

Descent

Zebra

Crossing or herd




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