Did you know..........

[matriarch]

That the name for a group of Meerkats is.............A MOB ??

I was just watching 'Animal Park' on BBC TV where they film regularly from Longleat Park (near Bath), they were introducing a new male to a group of females...(I'm saying nothing more), and the word came up.

http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/3697/meerkat.jpg

 

[Boota]

A group of -

Lions - pride
rhinos - crash
crows - murder
whales - pod
sperm whales - wad

 

[AppleBiter]

A group of crows is a Murder -- How creepy is that?

 

[BlackSnake]

A group of crows is a Murder -- How creepy is that?

Yeah, real creepy.

 

[chris 44]

A group of crows is a Murder -- How creepy is that?

My father used to tell me that a flock of Crows were Rooks, and a Rook on it's own was a Crow. Bet you didn't know that

 

[R. Richard]

A group of squirrels is call either a dray or a scurry [either term is proper.]

 

[lucky-E-leven]

A group of squirrels is call either a dray or a scurry [either term is proper.]

That would make Charley the queen of the scurry.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Geese: gaggel
Fish: School

Iused to know a lot of these way back when

 

[ElizabethWest]

That the name for a group of Meerkats is.............A MOB ??

I was just watching 'Animal Park' on BBC TV where they film regularly from Longleat Park (near Bath), they were introducing a new male to a group of females...(I'm saying nothing more), and the word came up.

http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/3697/meerkat.jpg

All they need are little trenchcoats.

 

[Tom Collins]

My father used to tell me that a flock of Crows were Rooks, and a Rook on it's own was a Crow. Bet you didn't know that

Actually, chris, a rook is a European bird that resembles the North American crow but isn't.

Is this a useless information thread or is it just about animals?

 

[entitled]

Actually, chris, a rook is a European bird that resembles the North American crow but isn't.

Is this a useless information thread or is it just about animals?

Yes.

How useless an answer is that?

 

[Tom Collins]

Yes.

How useless an answer is that?

Well, I was just going to say that if it's for useless info in general it was made for me, cuz I'm full of it. Useless information, that is.

For instance, Mel Blank was alergic to carrots but he insisted that nothing but a carrot sounded right when he was chewing for Bugs so the kept a large trash can right next to him so he could spit the carrot out after each take.

 

[entitled]

Well, I was just going to say that if it's for useless info in general it was made for me, cuz I'm full of it. Useless information, that is.

For instance, Mel Blank was alergic to carrots but he insisted that nothing but a carrot sounded right when he was chewing for Bugs so the kept a large trash can right next to him so he could spit the carrot out after each take.

Not just after each take, but between chewing and words, else his face and throat would swell.

They also recorded him taking bites of various other root vegetables to make see if they would make a good enough substitute.

 

[RogueLurker]

Well, I was just going to say that if it's for useless info in general it was made for me, cuz I'm full of it. Useless information, that is.

For instance, Mel Blank was alergic to carrots but he insisted that nothing but a carrot sounded right when he was chewing for Bugs so the kept a large trash can right next to him so he could spit the carrot out after each take.

Not just after each take, but between chewing and words, else his face and throat would swell.

They also recorded him taking bites of various other root vegetables to make see if they would make a good enough substitute..

You're both right ...that pretty useless information.
And now I won't be able to watch Looney Tunes without the image of some little man horking carrot pieces into a pail...

BTW, Ent .... what do you call a group of Badgers Badgers Badgers?

 

[entitled]

You're both right ...that pretty useless information.
And now I won't be able to watch Looney Tunes without the image of some little man horking carrot pieces into a pail...

BTW, Ent .... what do you call a group of Badgers Badgers Badgers?

Doesn't matter. They get chased off by.... EEEEEEEEEEEEEK! It's a snake!

 

[RogueLurker]

That the name for a group of Meerkats is.............A MOB ??

I was just watching 'Animal Park' on BBC TV where they film regularly from Longleat Park (near Bath), they were introducing a new male to a group of females...(I'm saying nothing more), and the word came up.

On a possibly related (possibly not related) note .... Would you know if British TV still film Monkey World/Monkey Business? It was a sort of continuting documentary saga about the rescued monkeys in a refuge park. It was very much like a soap opera with all the interactions in the different groups. I used to love watching it, but can't seem to find it on our version of Animal Planet.

 

[matriarch]

On a possibly related (possibly not related) note .... Would you know if British TV still film Monkey World/Monkey Business? It was a sort of continuting documentary saga about the rescued monkeys in a refuge park. It was very much like a soap opera with all the interactions in the different groups. I used to love watching it, but can't seem to find it on our version of Animal Planet.

I know it well, one of my favourites.
It used to be shown on ITV (the main commercial tv station on UK terrestrial TV), on a southern regional tv station.

This is a link to their website.

 

[matriarch]

A 'congregation' of Alligators
A 'shrewdness' of Apes
A 'cete' of Badgers
A 'sleuth' or 'sloth' of Bears
A 'gang' of Bison
A 'singular' or 'sounder' of Boar
A 'flock' of Camel .............. ???????????
A 'clutter', 'clowder' or 'kindle' of Cats
A 'coalition' of Cheetah
A 'bed' of Clam
A 'sedge' or 'siege' of Crane
A 'murder' or 'muster' of Crow
A 'dole', 'flight' or 'piteousness' of Dove
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(more later)

 

[RogueLurker]

I know it well, one of my favourites.
It used to be shown on ITV (the main commercial tv station on UK terrestrial TV), on a southern regional tv station.

This is a link to their website.

Thank you! Due to the subject matter ... this deserves the following:

The last thing I remember seeing was when they were trying to bring orangutans and gibbons from Thailand or Taiwan (I think?).

It was an absolutely fascinating show ... I'll check out the website and see if I can find it playing anywhere.

Thanks again!

 

[matriarch]

I know it well, one of my favourites.
It used to be shown on ITV (the main commercial tv station on UK terrestrial TV), on a southern regional tv station.

This is a link to their website.

Not sure what's happening folks, but the link I put in (which still shows the correct address), is now taking you to a Microsoft page.......Bastards !!

The address for those interested is http://www.monkeyworld.co.uk/main.php

 

[impressive]

A group of -

...
whales - pod
sperm whales - wad

 

[zeb1094]

Not sure what's happening folks, but the link I put in (which still shows the correct address), is now taking you to a Microsoft page.......Bastards !!

The address for those interested is http://www.monkeyworld.co.uk/main.php

Go back an correct your original link and take out the extra http:// that was placed in front of it!

 

[Guest]

I like watching Animal planet and National Geograffic and stuff cause I learn all kinds of really neat stuff like a pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes so in my next life I want to be a pig and humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for fun and stuff but is that why Flipper was always smiling? And, why isn't the pig on the list? Some lions mate over 50 times a day but In my next life I still want to be a pig cause of quality over quantity and stuff and the boy praying mantis cant have sex while its head is attached to its body so the girl starts sex by ripping the boys head off which is just grose and stuff but I wouldnt want to be the guy coming home from work to a horney wife and stuff cause thats not the kind of fourplay Id like.

Debbie

 

[oggbashan]

According to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in his novel 'Sir Nigel' and Sir Walter Scott in 'Ivanhoe' these collective nouns for animals were invented by the Normans who also had special words for the meat at table.

So, a Saxon swineherd looked after swine or pigs that became pork on the Norman's table.

A shepherd looked after sheep that were served as mutton.

A chicken became a poulet when roasted and stuffed.

The coney, cared for by a warrener, might became a Norman rabbit if the Saxon peasant didn't steal it first.

Deer became venison.

The collective nouns were for use only in hunting. Cattle/kine remained as herds because no one hunted cows.

Og

 

[rgraham666]

If you want a really useless piece of information, there's a species of termite that defends the nest by blowing itself up.