Collective Nouns

The English language has some wonderfully anthropomorphic collective nouns for the various groups of animals.

We are all familiar with a:

Herd of cows,


a Flock of chickens,


a School of fish


and a Gaggle of geese.

However, less widely known is:

Pride of lions,

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!

A CONGRESS OF BABOONS!

I guess that pretty much explains the everything that comes out (or doesn’t come out) of Congress!

You just can’t make this stuff up.

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