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A Barrel of Monkeys: A Compendium of Collective Nouns for Animals

By Samuel Fanous (Compiler)
Hardcover
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By Samuel Fanous (Compiler)
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What should we call the wild animals we spot from our windows? A surfeit of skunks? A dray of squirrels? A patient watch of wildlife enthusiasts might even catch sight of a skulk of foxes or a scavenging sloth of bears. The practice of inventing collective nouns for animals is an ancient pastime which derives from medieval hunts, but the list has been augmented in every age—and it remains an entertaining pastime today.A Barrel of Monkeys brings together more than one hundred collective noun...

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