Posted by Pablo on April 6, 2017, 1:43 am, in reply to "Re: a BASK of Crocodiles"

Except Ron, a group of baboons is actually called a troop. https://www.quora.com/Why-is-a-large-group-of-baboons-called-a-congress-How-did-that-designation-come-about In fact, and somewhat surprisingly, it seems congress is not used as a collective pronoun for any animals (my web search was not that deep). https://www.macquariedictionary.com.au/resources/view/resource/4/ The things you end up learning off this board... I particularly like a smack of jellyfish, a covert of coots and a shrewdness of apes. Great photo by the way, Robin...

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