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Thanks to Lisa for sending this one!
The English language has some wonderfully anthropomorphic
collective
nouns for groups of animals.
There is a Pride of lions
a Murder of crows (as well as their cousins the rooks and ravens);
a School of fish
an Exaltation of doves
and
presumably because they look so wise, a Parliament of owls.
Now consider the baboon.
The
loudest, most dangerous and viciously aggressive of all primates.
And what is the proper collective noun for a group of baboons?
A Congress.
