I’m amazed at how long this blog thread has grown! Each post describes what to call groups of animals … See how many you can guess. Answers listed at the bottom of the page.
This tell could tell tales!
The glimmer glimmered in the dying light.
The last thing you want is this intrusion intruding!
The raft’s feet make it difficult to sit on a raft.
I want a kaleidoscope of this kaleidoscope.
Is there wisdom in thinking a wisdom wise?
Glimmer memberTell visit in Yangon, Myanmar home
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Tell of crows
Glimmer of dragonflies [1]
Intrusion of cockroaches
Raft of loons [2]
Kaleidoscope of butterflies
Wisdom of wombats
Perching on the top leftWisdom memberKaleidoscope, back trails, Cranberry Lake, Adirondacks
I present installment #27 from my blog thread describing what to call groups of animals … See how many you can guess. Answers listed at the bottom of the page.
If you agitate the pandemonium you’ll create pandemonium!
He cast the cast free.
The murder murdered the afternoon quiet.
A memory has very long memories.
What a shock to find this nest nestled in the rocks.
A mischievous mischief causes so much mischief.
Memory, Angkor Wat, Cambodia
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Pandemonium of parrots
Cast of falcons [1]
Murder of crows
Memory of elephants
Nest of snakes [2]
Mischief of mice
Nest member, Wilhelma Zoo, Stuttgart, GermanyA critter this smart could definitely cause pandemonium…. Loro Parque, Tenerifa
Somewhere my father is grinning with approval at my never-ending blog thread for him! I present installment #26 describing what to call groups of animals … See how many you can guess. Answers listed at the bottom of the page.
The scurry scurried off.
I always fall for a fall in fall. [1]
A hood lived under the hood.
The cover covered the shoreline.
The sawt sawed at the meat.
Is a cowardice cowardly?
Cowardice member, U Bein Bridge, Amarapura, Myanmar
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Scurry of squirrels
Fall of woodcocks
Hood of snails
Cover of coots
Sawt of lions
Cowardice of curs
Scurry member, Granary Burying Ground est. 1660, Boston, USACover, North Island, New Zealand
I present installment #25 from my blog thread describing what to call groups of animals … See how many you can guess. Answers listed at the bottom of the page.
Here is installment #23 from my blog thread describing what to call groups of animals … See how many you can guess. Answers listed at the bottom of the page.
This bite bites.
The cluster clustered at the bottom of the bowl.
The draft drifted in the draft.
The descent descended, making their way around the tree trunk.
Here is installment #22 from my eternal blog thread describing what to call groups of animals … See how many you can guess. Answers listed at the bottom of the page.
They gammed about the gam’s lack of gams!
Sometimes a pounce pounces.
A vagrant vagrant member is all alone.
Is a deceit deceitful?
A sord is not sordid.
The posse shot the posse – and ate it.
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Vagrant vagrant, Loro Parque, Tenerifa
Gam of whales [1] [2]
Pounce of cats
Vagrant of sea urchin
Deceit of lapwings
Sord of mallards (in flight)
Posse of turkeys
Pounce, Nga Phe Chaung Kyaung Temple, Inle Lake, Myanmar
As 2018 begins I present to you Installment #21 from 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 flock flocked together.
She dug up a clot of clats.
A flock of these solitary creatures would be one big flock!
The husk wasn’t particularly husky.
The wreck covered the wreck.
An audience for the audience, please!
Flock member, Mission Beach, AustraliaClat, Silk showroom, Bangkok, Thailand
Happy New Year, Everyone!!! My gift to you is Installment #20 from my blog thread describing what to call groups of animals … See how many you can guess. Answers listed at the bottom of the page.
Man, a flamboyance is flamboyant!
See the run run.
Is a zeal zealous?
I saw a rainbow rainbow!
The route kept to the route.
Did you find the bazaar at the bazaar?
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Rainbow part, Khao Yai National Park, ThailandRainbow part, Khao Yai National Park, ThailandRainbow part, Khao Yai National Park, Thailand
Patiently waiting for the full moon to rise, Hampi, India
India is good for a surprise around any corner and on any street. We once passed a band of musicians blowing horns and banging drums, marching nonchalently down the middle of the road. Cows, of course, are sacred in the Hindu faith and go wherever they damn well please.
And on our way to the airport near Bhopal, our taxi driver asked if we wanted to halt and watch a truck feed the passengers.
They were transporting a brood of hens to market. [1] Properly defined, a brood is the family produced at a single hatching. This group had to be several broods. [2]
Unbuckling the passengers, so to speak….Hey! Are we there yet?Everyone likes a chance to stretch their legs
We were bemused by how healthy the hens were, and how agreeable to being transported together in baskets. They promptly headed for the field and their feed – and then back to the roadside to be placed again in baskets.
Chickens can’t fly (although they will get a running start and stay airborne for a second or two). There are more chickens than any other bird. According to Wikipedia, “[t]he domestic chicken is descended primarily from the red junglefowl (Gallus gallus).” They’re a gregarious species, and chicks are both incubated and raised communally.
The brood didn’t brood long with lunch being served [2]
We didn’t witness any of the usual pecking order. Maybe these hens were too hungry.
What’s for dessert?
Later that night over dinner (no, I don’t recall if I ordered a chicken dish) we talked about animal husbandry. The fowl transport truck seemed to both of us much less cruel than an industrial chicken factory.