What is a group of sloths called?

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 are 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.
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What do you call a family of sloths?

A group of sloths, by the way? They're called a bed.
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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 frogs called?

An army or colony of frogs.
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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 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 kangaroos called?

A male kangaroo is called a buck, boomer, or jack and a female is referred to as a doe, flyer, or jill. A group of kangaroos (usually ten or more roos) is known as a mob, troop, or court.
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What is a group of alligators called?

It typically refers to an important gathering. The US Fish & Wildlife Service asks: “What is more important than [a gathering of] the symbol of our country?” Interestingly, a group of alligators is also referred to as a congregation.
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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 do you call a group of giraffes?

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 sloth plural?

noun. \ ˈslȯth , ˈsläth also ˈslōth \ plural sloths\ ˈslȯths , ˈslȯṯẖz , ˈsläths , ˈsläṯẖz also ˈslōths , ˈslōṯẖz \
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What is a group of possums called?

A group of opossums is called a passel. They have a whopping 50 teeth in that hungry mouth, more than any other land mammal in North America. Opossums are excellent climbers, thanks to a prehensile tail and “thumbs” (called hallux) on its feet that help it keep a grip.
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What is a group of hedgehogs called?

Hedgehogs are insectivores, meaning they love the bugs in your garden. 9. A group of hedgehogs is called an 'array'.
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What is a group of crabs called?

A group of crabs is called a 'cast'.
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What is a group of skunks called?

Skunks are nocturnal and forage for food while most animals and humans sleep. Though you typically see skunks by themselves, they gather to mate. A group of skunks are called a surfeit.
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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 hyenas called?

Spotted hyenas are highly social animals, forming large groups called clans, which range from 6 to over 100 members.
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What group of animals is called a business?

Elk: a gang or a herd. Falcons: a cast. Ferrets: a business.
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How many nipples does a possum have?

The opossum is the only marsupial in North America. The female usually gives birth to 18 to 25 babies, each smaller than a honey bee. The mother has only 13 nipples so if a baby doesn't latch on to one it will not survive. Once the baby finds a nipple it will hang on tight and will not let go for six weeks.
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What is a male opossum called?

Opossums reproduce twice a year. Once mating is done, the male, called a jack, leaves and doesn't return. After a gestation of just 12 to 13 days, female opossums, called jills, give birth to up to 20 live young at a time. The babies, called joeys, are about the size of jelly beans when they are born.
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Why is sloth a sin?

The Catholic Church teaches that faith in God's love encompasses the call and the obligation to respond with sincere love to divine charity. Sloth is a sin against God's love in that it goes so far as to refuse the joy that comes from God and to be repelled by divine goodness.
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What does sloth mean as a sin?

Sloth has also been defined as a failure to do things that one should do, though the understanding of the sin in antiquity was that this laziness or lack of work was simply a symptom of the vice of apathy or indifference, particularly an apathy or boredom with God.
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Is it pronounced sloth or Sloath?

There is one dictionary of American English which shows a distinction between sloth the sin and sloth the animal: Dictionary.com Unabridged here, which is based upon the Random House Dictionary. It shows the pronunciation (using the IPA option) as /slɔθ or, especially for 2, sloʊθ/.
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