A bask of crocodiles… A business of ferrets… A pickle of hedgehogs… These are collective nouns of the animal kingdom, and we love them…
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A bask of crocodiles… A business of ferrets… A pickle of hedgehogs… These are collective nouns of the animal kingdom, and we love them…