Editor's Corner

Greetings, fellow humans. At the zoo the other evening, my spouse and I were trying to remember names for groups of animals. We started with our own species, and due to the mass of people around us, we settled on the term crowd: we were part of a pretty big crowd of people. But our game got a lot more fun when we started remembering or looking up names for groups of animals.

At the front of the San Diego Zoo, there is a flamboyance of flamingos. They are striking, for sure. And that led us down a very entertaining rabbit hole: as you may know, a group of rabbits is called a colony or a warren. Following is a partial list of lesser-known names for groups of animals:

• A troop of baboons
• A colony, cloud, or cauldron of bats
• A caravan of camels
• A coalition of cheetahs
• A bed of clams
• A band of coyotes
• A convocation of eagles
• A parade of elephants
• A charm of finches
• A tower of giraffes
• A cloud or hoard of gnats
• A bloat of thunder of hippopotami
• A cackle of hyenas
• A shadow of jaguars
• A troop or mob of kangaroos
• An ascension or exaltation of larks
• A conspiracy of lemurs
• A leap of leopards
• An aggregation of manatees
• A watch of nightingales
• A parliament of owls
• A prickle of porcupines
• A gaze of raccoons
• An unkindness of ravens
• A stench of skunks
• A dray or scurry of squirrels
• A fever of stingrays
• A wisdom of wombats
• A descent of woodpeckers
• A zeal of zebras

What should we call a group of Jack Henry associates? A jump? A jaunt? A jewel? Or maybe you can think of something else…

Have a lovely Thursday, my people.

Donna Bradley Burcher |Technical Editor, Advisory | jack henry

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