[Found in here.]
A pride of lions, a bevy of beetles, a murder of crows, etc. Names for various groups of animal are bizarre, and I’m not sure where the etymology began.
This site lists many that I’d never “herd” of before, like “A Business of Ferrets,” “An Implausibility of Gnus,” “A Bloat of Hippos,” “A Fleet of Mudhens,” “A Gaze of Raccoons.” My favorite from that list is “A Pace of Asses.”
Conspicuously missing from the list is the name for the plural of the primates in the image above, so in honor of a certain poster who injured one of her own, I hereby dub them A Calo of Lemurs.
Remember that you heard it here first, on the Overnight Open Thread.
Tags: entymology, lemurs, Open thread
