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- Antelope: herd
- Ants: colony, army
- Apes: shrewdness
- Baboons: troop
- Badgers: cete
- Bass: shoal
- Bats: colony, cloud, cauldron
- Bears: sloth, sleuth
- Cubs: litter
- Beavers: colony
- Bees: swarm
- Boar: sounder
- Buffalo: gang, obstinacy
- Camels: caravan
- Caterpillars: army
- Cats: clowder, glaring, pounce, nuisance, clutter
- Kittens: litter, kindle
- Cats (wild): destruction
- Cattle: herd, drove
- Cheetahs: coalition
- Chickens: brood, peep
- Chicks: clutch, chattering
- Clams: bed
- Cobras: quiver
- Colts: rag
- Cows: kine, drove, herd, fold, flink (12 or more)
- Coyotes: band
- Cranes: sedge
- Crocodiles: float, bask
- Crows: murder
- Deer: herd
- Dogs: pack, cowardice
- Puppies: litter
- Dolphins: pod
- Donkeys: drove
- Doves: dule
- Ducks: brace, paddling, team
- Eagles: convocation
- Elephants: herd, parade
- Elk: gang, herd
- Emus: mob
- Falcons: cast
- Ferrets: business, fesnyng
- Finches: charm
- Fish: school, shoal, run, haul, catch
- Flamingos: stand, flamboyance
- Flies: swarm, hatch, business
- Foxes: skulk, leash
- Frogs: army, colony
- Geese: gaggle, flock, skein (when in flight)
- Giraffes: tower
- Gnats: cloud, horde
- Goats: herd, tribe, trip
- Goldfinches: charm
- Goldfish: troubling
- Gorillas: band
- Grasshoppers: cloud
- Greyhounds: leach
- Hares: down, husk
- Hawks: cast, kettle
- Hippopotami: bloat, thunder
- Hogs: drift, parcel
- Horses: team, harras
- Hounds: pack, mute, cry
- Hyenas: cackle
- Jaguars: shadow
- Jellyfish: smack, brood
- Kangaroos: troop, mob
- Larks: ascension, exaltation
- Lemurs: conspiracy
- Leopards: leap
- Lice: flock
- Lions: pride
- Locust: plague, cloud
- Magpies: tiding, tittering
- Mallards: sord
- Manatees: aggregation
- Mares: stud
- Martens: richness
- Minnows: steam
- Moles: labor
- Monkeys: barrel, cartload, troop
- Mules: pack, barren, span
- Nightingales: watch
- Otters: family, romp, raft
- Owls: parliament
- Oxen: team, yoke
- Oysters: bed
- Parrots: pandemonium, company
- Partridges: covey
- Peacocks: muster, ostentation
- Penguins: colony
- Pheasants: nest, nide, bouquet
- Pigeons: flock, flights
- Pigs: drift, drove (younger pigs), sounder, litter, team (older pigs)
- Ponies: string
- Porcupines: prickle
- Rabbits: colony, warren
- Raccoons: gaze
- Rats: colony, pack, swarm, mischief
- Rattlesnakes: rhumba
- Ravens: unkindness
- Rhinoceroses: crash
- Sharks: shiver
- Sheep: drove, flock
- Skunks: stench
- Snakes: nest, knot
- Sparrows: host
- Squirrels: dray, scurry
- Starlings: murmuration
- Stingrays: fever
- Storks: mustering
- Swans: bevy, lamentation, wedge (when in flight)
- Tigers: ambush, streak
- Toads: knot, knab
- Trout: hover
- Turkeys: gang, posse, rafter
- Turtles: bale, nest
- Vultures: venue
- Wasps: pledge
- Weasels: colony, gang, pack
- Whales: pod, school, gam
- Wolves: pack, route
- Wombats: wisdom
- Woodpeckers: descent
- Zebras: zeal