What is a group of hippos called?

Why a group of hippos is called a bloat - BBC Travel.
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What are 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 zebras called?

A group of zebras can also be called a herd of zebras or a zeal of zebras, but those aren't quite as much fun.
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Is a group of hippos called a crash?

A herd of hippos is known as a crash, bloat, school, or pod.
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What is a group of Platypus called?

A PADDLE of Platypus

The cutest collective noun since a 'Cuddle' of puppies or a 'Waddle' of penguins.
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What is a group of koalas called?

There's no collective noun for a group of Koalas moving around together because Koalas don't move around in groups like dolphins or some birds. They are fairly solitary creatures, although they do like to be living in overlapping home ranges in bushland with other Koalas.
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What are a group of donkeys called?

A group of donkeys is called a drove.
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What is a group 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!
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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. They live alone or in small herds of males.
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What is a group of sharks?

For a group of sharks, there is no one conventional name to refer to them as one. Nevertheless, shiver, frenzy, herd, gam, shoal, grind, shoal, or college are used to describe sharks collectively. But, a group of dolphins and whales are collectively called a “school” or “pod.”
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What is a bunch of pandas called?

A group of pandas is known as an embarrassment.
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What is a group of penguins called?

A group of penguins in the water is called a raft but on land they're called a waddle! Other names for a group of penguins include rookery, colony, and huddle.
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What is a group of turtles called?

Formed various groups called a bale of turtles, a dole of turtles, a nest of turtles. Just like we call a group of fish a school, a group of squirrels a scurry, or like how a herd is the name for a group of cows, a group of turtles is called a 'bale' in a fanciful way.
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What is a group of octopus called?

The cephalopods do have eight tentacles and there may be three ways to describe a group of them, but only one is technically correct. Grammatically speaking, the plural for octopus is octopuses. As the Merriam-Webster dictionary points out, people use three different terms, however: octopi, octopuses, and octopodes.
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What is a group of gorillas called?

When gorillas are in a group, they are often referred to as a troop. In the wild and in human care, gorillas find themselves in both family and bachelor troops. Western lowland gorilla families typically consist of around three to 11 individuals.
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What is a group of bears called?

A Sleuth of Bears

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 crocodiles called?

A bask of crocodiles

Crocodiles are cold-blooded creatures, meaning they can't regulate their own body temperature and rely on the surrounding temperature to do it for them.
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What's 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 is the name of a group of whales?

A group of whales is known as a “pod.” Other terms used for groups of whales are a “gam” and “school,” but pod is by far the most common name. The term “pod” refers to a group of animals living together. In general smaller animals are more likely than larger animals to form pods.
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What is a herd of camels called?

A group of camels is also known as this.

A group of camels is called a "caravan."
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What is a group of sloths?

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 goats called?

Goat. A herd, tribe or trip goats.
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What is a group of dogs called?

dogs. pack, mute, kennel.
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What is the collective noun for hummingbirds?

Collective nouns describing hummingbirds include: a charm of hummingbirds, a troubling of hummingbirds, and a hover of hummingbirds.
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