Why Is A Group Of Crows Called A “Murder”?
Buy our clowder of cats T-shirt! https://store.dftba.com/products/cat-cat-shirt AND SUPPORT US ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/MinuteEarth Collective nouns are a great way to have fun...
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Hey, it’s Kate! Please stick around at the end of the video for a quick message from the MinuteEarth team. In the 15th century, aristocratic British hunters invented some whimsical labels for groups of animals, like a “gaggle of geese", a “skulk of foxes”, and a “charm of finches”. These “collective nouns” allowed the hunters to share their appreciation for nature's animals...before shooting them. And unlike those unlucky critters, this fanciful way of describing groups of animals has survived the centuries, giving rise to “pods of whales”, “mobs of kangaroos”, and “clowders of cats”. Even though these terms rarely make it into the formal scientific literature – where it’s often clearer to just refer to groups of anim...
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Hey, it’s Kate! Please stick around at the end of the video for a quick message from the MinuteEarth team. In the 15th century, aristocratic British hunters invented some whimsical labels for groups of animals, like a “gaggle of geese", a “skulk of foxes”, and a “charm of finches”. These “collective nouns” allowed the hunters to share their appreciation for nature's animals...before shooting them. And unlike those unlucky critters, this fanciful way of describing groups of animals has survived the centuries, giving rise to “pods of whales”, “mobs of kangaroos”, and “clowders of cats”. Even though these terms rarely make it into the formal scientific literature – where it’s often clearer to just refer to groups of anim...
