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| | Common Questions: What Do You Call a Group of...? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19) |
 | | Whatever the motivating factor, we have received a spate of questions on collective nouns or group names for all sorts of critters. |
 | | This listing exhausts the meager pile of references available at Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center; if the animal that you are interested in doesn't appear here, please, please, ask someone else, because I can't help you! |
 | | A draft, nest, school, shoal (some authors claim that the common "school" is a corruption of shoal, and therefore incorrect) |
| www.npwrc.usgs.gov /info/faqs/animals/names.htm (375 words) |
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