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Science and technology: Sample tables
Collective Names for Animals
| Animal |
Collective name |
| Antelopes |
troop |
| Ants |
colony, nest, swarm |
| Apes |
shrewdness |
| Asses |
pace |
| Baboons |
troop |
| Badgers |
cete |
| Bears |
sleuth, sloth |
| Bees |
colony, drift, grist, hive, nest, swarm |
| Birds |
flight, flock, volery |
| Bitterns |
sedge, siege |
| Boars |
singular, sounder |
| Bucks |
leash |
| Camels |
caravan, string |
| Cats |
clowder, clutter, litter |
| Cattle |
drove, herd |
| Chicks |
brood, clutch |
| Choughs |
chattering |
| Clams |
bed |
| Colts |
rag |
| Coots |
covert, raft |
| Cubs |
litter |
| Cranes |
sedge, siege |
| Crows |
hover, murder |
| Deer |
bevy, herd, parcel |
| Dogs |
litter, kennel, pack (wild) |
| Dolphins |
school |
| Donkeys |
pace |
| Doves |
dole, dule, flight, pitying |
| Ducks |
badling, brace, flock, paddling, team (in flight) |
| Eagles |
convocation |
| Eels |
swarm |
| Elephants |
herd |
| Elk |
gang |
| Falcons |
cast |
| Ferrets |
busyness, fesnying |
| Finches |
charm |
| Fish |
draught, school, shoal |
| Flies |
swarm |
| Foxes |
lead, leash, skulk |
| Frogs |
army |
| Geese |
flock, gaggle, nide, skein (in flight), wedge (in flight) |
| Gnats |
cloud, horde, swarm |
| Goats |
herd, tribe, trip |
| Goldfinches |
charm, chirm |
| Gorillas |
band |
| Greyhounds |
leash |
| Grouse |
covey |
| Gulls |
colony |
| Hares |
down, husk |
| Hawks |
cast |
| Herons |
sedge, siege |
| Horses |
drove, herd, pair, team, stable, string |
| Hounds |
cry, mute, pack |
| Jays |
band |
| Kangaroos |
herd, mob, troop |
| Kittens |
kindle, litter |
| Lapwings |
desert |
| Larks |
bevy, exaltation |
| Leopards |
leap, lepe |
| Lions |
pride |
| Mallards |
flush, sord (on land), sute |
| Martens |
richesse |
| Mice |
nest |
| Moles |
labour |
| Monkeys |
band, troop |
| Mules |
span |
| Nightingales |
charm, watch |
| Oxen |
drove, herd, yoke |
| Oysters |
bed |
| Partridges |
covey |
| Peafowl |
muster, ostentation, pride |
| Penguins |
parcel, rookery |
| Pheasants |
bevy, nest, nide, nye |
| Pigs |
litter |
| Piglets |
farrow, litter |
| Plovers |
congregation, wing |
| Pochards |
knob, rush |
| Polecats |
chine |
| Porpoises |
school |
| Puppies |
litter |
| Quails |
bevy, covey |
| Rabbits |
nest |
| Ravens |
unkindness |
| Rhinoceroses |
crash |
| Rooks |
clamour, parliament, rookery |
| Seals |
bob, harem, herd, pod, rookery |
| Sheep |
drove, flock, trip |
| Sheldrakes |
dopping |
| Skunks |
busyness |
| Snipe |
wisp |
| Sparrows |
host |
| Starlings |
chattering, murmuration |
| Storks |
mustering |
| Swallows |
flight |
| Swans |
bevy, wedge |
| Swine |
drift, sounder |
| Teal |
knob, spring, raft |
| Termites |
colony, nest, swarm |
| Thrushes |
mutation |
| Toads |
army, knob, knot |
| Tortoises |
bale |
| Turtles |
bale, dole, dule, rafter |
| Vipers |
nest |
| Walruses |
pod |
| Waterfowl |
plump |
| Whales |
gam, herd, pod, school |
| Whiting |
pod |
| Wigeons |
company, knob |
| Wildfowl |
sute |
| Wolves |
pack, rout |
| Woodcocks |
fall, plump |
Geological Eras, Periods, and Epochs
| Eon |
Era |
Period |
Epoch |
Began |
Stage of life |
| Phanerozoic |
Cenozoic |
Quaternary |
Holocene |
10,000 years ago |
end of last ice age; civilization develops |
| Pleistocene |
1.64 million years ago |
Homo sapiens evolves |
| Tertiary |
Pliocene |
5.2 million years ago |
earliest hominids evolve |
| Miocene |
23.5 million years ago |
grasslands spread; hoofed mammals evolve |
| Oligocene |
35.5 million years ago |
first anthropoid apes evolve |
| Eocene |
56.5 million years ago |
predecessors of most modern mammals evolve |
| Palaeocene |
65 million years ago |
mammals flourish |
| Mesozoic |
Cretaceous |
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146 million years ago |
seed-bearing plants evolve; mass extinction (including dinosaurs) at end of period |
| Jurassic |
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208 million years ago |
birds evolve |
| Triassic |
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245 million years ago |
early dinosaurs; first mammals; mass plant extinction at end of period |
| Palaeozoic |
Permian |
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290 million years ago |
mass extinction |
| Carboniferous |
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360 million years ago |
reptiles evolve |
| Devonian |
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409 million years ago |
amphibians and insects evolve |
| Silurian |
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439 million years ago |
land plants and jawed fishes evolve |
| Ordovician |
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510 million years ago |
reef-building algae and jawless fish evolve |
| Cambrian |
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570 million years ago |
invertebrate animals evolve |
| Precambrian |
Proterozoic |
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2.5 billion years ago |
first biological activity; bacteria and algae |
| Archaean |
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4.6 billion years ago |
none |
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