What is a flock of pigs called?

A Sounder of Swine.
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Is a group of pigs called a pack?

A group of pigs or pigs herd is called a drift or drove. A swine group is called a sounder, whereas, a hog's group is called a passel or team.
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What is a colony of pigs called?

• Pigs: a drift or drove (younger pigs) or a sounder or a team (older pigs) • Porcupines: a prickle. • Rabbits: a herd. • Rats: a colony.
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How many pigs is a herd?

The U.S. Census of Agriculture's hog inventory backs Dr. Zimmerman's estimate. Figures from the 2012 census indicate that, among farms with at least 25 pigs, the mean herd size was about 3,050 pigs. When every farm with at least one pig is counted, the mean was about 1,000 pigs.
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What is a sounder of pigs?

A sounder is a herd of feral hogs primarily comprised of one or more adult sows and one or multiple generations of offspring.
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What is a group of donkeys called?

A group of donkeys is called a drove.
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What is a bunch of goats called?

Goat. A herd, tribe or trip goats.
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Can you call a group of pigs a herd?

Yes, a group of pigs is called a herd of pigs.
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What is a group of humans called?

Families, being the basic building blocks in human society, traditionally grouped together to form clans. A group of human families could therefore be called a 'clan'.
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What is the collective name of a group of cows?

The collective noun of cattle is herd.
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What is a group of giraffes called?

Take giraffe for example: “a tower” is their collective noun, and we can't think of a better way to describe a group of these gangly giants, towering as they do above all but the tallest trees around them. A group of giraffe are called a 'tower', which is a great example of collective nouns at their descriptive best.
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What is a group of elephants called?

The family group is called a herd. A herd is made of all the mother elephants and their babies. There might be six to 12 members in a family. Female elephants stay in the herd forever. Male elephants leave between the ages of 7 and 12.
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What is a group of snakes called?

A group is called a snake den or pit. When someone refers to a snake den, the word den is being used as a collective noun. The collective noun highlights the fact that there's more than one snake in the group. Along with den and pit, a person may use another collective noun like a snake knot or even a snake bed.
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What do you call a group of squirrels?

A group of squirrels are called a scurry. Squirrels are quite territorial and will fight to the death in order to defend their living area. Some squirrels are crepuscular.
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What is a bunch of foxes called?

A group of foxes is called a skulk. The word skulk comes from a Scandinavian word, and generally means to wait, lurk or move stealthily. Foxes have a bit of a reputation for being sneaky so this word seems to work quite well! A destruction of wild cats. Getty Images.
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What is a group of bears called?

A group of bears is called a sleuth or a sloth. In the same way that the word “long” becomes “length” or the word “moon” becomes month, the old-fashioned –th added to an adjective form a noun.
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What is a group of raccoons called?

A group of raccoons is called a nursery. Although raccoons only live 2-3 years in the wild, a raccoon can live up to 20 years in captivity.
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What is a group of sharks?

A Shiver of Sharks

One of our favourite collective nouns on the list is the name for a group of sharks – a 'shiver'.
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What is a group of snails called?

A group of snails can be referred to as a rout, walk or escargatoire of snails. The word snail is used for thousands of animal species in the gastropod mollusk family.
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What's a group of zebras called?

a herd, dazzle, or zeal of zebras.
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What is a group of pigeons called?

pigeons - a kit of pigeons.
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What is a group of jellyfish called?

A group of jellyfish is called a SMACK! Here are more collective nouns for ocean animals you. might not know...
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What is a group of wolves called?

Wolves live in family groups called packs. A pack is usually made up of a male parent, a female parent and their pups from the last few years. Usually, four to six pups are born together in a litter.
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What is a group of sloth?

A Snuggle of Sloths

As you can see, a “snuggle” of sloths was the resounding winner, which now makes this the most popular term for a group of sloths!
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What is a group of otters?

A group of resting otters is called a raft.

Researchers have seen concentrations of over 1,000 otters floating together. To keep from drifting away from each other, sea otters will wrap themselves up in seaweed, forming something that resembles a raft. A raft of otters resting in a group.
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