I’ve always loved those strange names for animal groups with which English teems, and they were brought back to my mind by my sister, who was coming up against them in a crossword puzzle. I’ve read lists of them before, but I found a particularly nice one today at the San Diego zoo website (warning to sister sledge: contains answers to crossword clues.)

Here are a few of my new favorites:
A siege of herons
A leap of leopards
A scold of jays
A smack of jellyfish
A scurry of squirrels
An intrusion of cockroaches

Great crash of rhinoceroses, people, don’t you just love English?