According to this random website (just one of the first results on Ecosia): “While clowder is the most common collective noun for cats, a group of cats is also called a cluster, litter (kittens of the same mother), destruction (wild cats), or nuisance.”
First time I’ve heard any of those apart from litter, personally. There’s also a pride of lions.
A bunch of crows is called a
gang<a murder> iirc, is there a term for multiple cats jumping out at you?Update: damn I learned a lot from you guys with the google and whatnot.
A group of crows is a murder, and ravens are an unkindness. Smart black birds were not named with politeness.
The unpoliteness was likely mutual
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According to this random website (just one of the first results on Ecosia): “While clowder is the most common collective noun for cats, a group of cats is also called a cluster, litter (kittens of the same mother), destruction (wild cats), or nuisance.”
First time I’ve heard any of those apart from litter, personally. There’s also a pride of lions.
feral cats are a colony, too.
An ambush of cats?
A cataclysm