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Post by Guest Fri Feb 28, 2014 11:34 pm

The English language has some wonderfully anthropomorphic collective nouns for the various groups of animals.

We are all familiar with a
Herd of cows,

Flock of chickens,

School of fish

And a Gaggle of geese, and


A Pride of lions.

However, less widely known is:
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?

The correct answer, believe it or not … is

A Parliament

YEP....A PARLIAMENT OF BABOONS!
Pretty much explains everything doesn't it?

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Post by Irn Bru Fri Feb 28, 2014 11:42 pm

Victor, you missed out ' a Dose of Crabs'

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Post by Eilzel Fri Feb 28, 2014 11:44 pm

Haha, victor that is brilliant, a parliament of baboons, do they wear blue ties  lol! 
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Post by Guest Sat Mar 01, 2014 10:51 am

Irn Bru wrote:Victor, you missed out ' a Dose of Crabs'

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