I give you Installment #32 of my blog thread describing what to call groups of animals! … See how many you can guess. Answers listed at the bottom of the page.
- The durante MUST be named for Durante.
- A raffle is perfect for a Thanksgiving raffle.
- Have you ever heard a drumming drumming?
- An orchestra plays their orchestra on summer evenings.
- A trip seldom trips.
- I’d love to see an aurora during an aurora.
- Durante of toucans [1]
- Raffle of turkeys
- Drumming of grouse [2]
- Orchestra of crickets
- Trip of goats
- Aurora of polar bears [3]
NOTES: [1] I had to check that this one was real because I instantly thought of Jimmy Durante and his famous schnozz with this definition for the big-beaked toucan… [2] Drumming comes from the birds’ mating call, generated with the wings [3] Could the name be any more wonderfully appropriate for an animal that lives at the North Pole?!
© Jadi Campbell 2017. Durante member photo courtesy of Pexels. Goat photo © Uwe Hartmann.To see Uwe’s animal photos and pics from our trips go to viewpics.de. Fun animal names from en.wiktionary.org, www.writers-free-reference.com, Mother Nature Network and www.reference.com.
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I did not know this – thanks for providing my become-a-little-smarter factoid for the day!
At first I wondered if the drumming might refer to emus. They have a drumming call.