Media Scan 10-3-26

 

Answers

1. English collective nouns for animals are called the terms of venery.

2. A group humorously called a “congress” refers to baboons.

(“A congress of baboons”; the normal term is a troop of baboons.)

3. The ominous birds described are ravens.

Collective noun: an unkindness of ravens.

4. A group of rhinoceroses is called a crash.

(“A crash of rhinoceroses”.)

5. The collective noun for apes is a shrewdness of apes.

Visual Question:

The birds forming the phenomenon shown are starlings, and the collective noun is a murmuration.