The English language has some wonderfully anthropomorphic collective nouns for the various groups of animals.
We are all familiar with a Herd of cows, A Flock of chickens, A School of fish And a Gaggle of geese. However, less widely known is: A Pride of lions, A Murder of crows (as well as their cousins the rooks and ravens), An Exaltation of doves
And, presumably because they look so wise: A Congress of owls. Now consider a group of Baboons. They are the loudest, most dangerous, most obnoxious, most viciously aggressive and least intelligent of all primates. And what is the proper collective noun for a group of baboons? ? ?
Believe it or not ……. A Parliament A PARLIAMENT OF BABOONS!
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