« on: September 01, 2013, 08:02:20 AM »
Forum contributor Ben Sanchez wishes to share with us this delightful photo-essay about the nature of beasts and humankind. Enjoy!Priceless.
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, A Gaggle of Geese, and A Pride of Lions.However, less widely known is:
A Murder of Crows, (as well as of 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 Yep... A Parliament of Baboons!*Pretty much explains everything, doesn’t it? You just can’t make this up.---------------
*Editor’s note: This is the British version, of course. The Philippines has its own. Do you know what the collective anthropomorphic noun for them is? Do tell us your answer.
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