animal group

Noun
  1. A group of animals (synset 108010371)
    is a type of: biological group - a group of plants or animals
    subtypes:
    • team - two or more draft animals that work together to pull something
    • brood - the young of an animal cared for at one time
    • flock - a group of birds
    • flock, fold - a group of sheep or goats
    • herd - a group of cattle or sheep or other domestic mammals all of the same kind that are herded by humans
    • herd - a group of wild mammals of one species that remain together: antelope or elephants or seals or whales or zebra
    • pack - a group of hunting animals
    • pod - a group of aquatic mammals
    • pride - a group of lions
    • clowder - a group of cats
    • school, shoal - a large group of fish
    • caste - in some social insects (such as ants) a physically distinct individual or group of individuals specialized to perform certain functions in the colony
    • colony - (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell
    • warren - a colony of rabbits
    • breed, stock, strain - a special variety of domesticated animals within a species
    • drove - a group of animals (a herd or flock) moving together
    • litter - the offspring at one birth of a multiparous mammal
    belongs to: fauna, zoology - all the animal life in a particular region or period

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