Can You Match the Collective Noun with the Animal Group It Describes?

A roll of armadillos. A raft of otters. A shrewdness of apes.

The English language is a difficult and miraculous place. A collective noun is a word that refers to a collection of things taken as a whole. A “group” of people. A “bouquet” of flowers. You know these words and probably use them often — words like a bushel, a squad, a stack, a swarm, a cast, a pack, a fleet, a bunch, a set.

There are so many amazing words for groups of animals, some of which were more intuitive or simple and some of which were a little more creative and intentional. For example, there’s a pack of dogs and a herd of buffalo, but humans also created names like a memory of elephants, a hover of trout, and a cackle of hyenas.