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@lxskllr The term "tuna fish" is used to distinguish between tuna in the sea and tuna in a can. The word "tuna" refers to the fish, while "tuna fish" refers to the canned product.

It still seems ridiculous to me. They are both tuna...and tuna is a fish. Either way you use it, it's correct as far as I'm concerned lol
 
@lxskllr The term "tuna fish" is used to distinguish between tuna in the sea and tuna in a can. The word "tuna" refers to the fish, while "tuna fish" refers to the canned product.

It still seems ridiculous to me. They are both tuna...and tuna is a fish. Either way you use it, it's correct as far as I'm concerned lol
Then you call it canned tuna.

Moo cow is another one that gets me. I never hear of oink pigs.
 
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Animal Group Names​

Antelope: a herd

Ants: a colony or an army

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Apes: a shrewdness

Baboons: a troop

Badgers: a cete

Bass: a shoal

Bats: a colony, cloud or cauldron

Bears: a sloth or sleuth; Cubs: a litter

Beavers: a colony

Bees: a swarm

Boar: a sounder

Buffalo: a gang or obstinacy

Camels: a caravan

Caterpillars: an army

Cats: a clowder, glaring, pounce, nuisance or clutter; Kittens: a litter or kindle; Wild cats: a destruction

Cattle: a herd or drove

Cheetahs: a coalition

Chickens: a brood or peep; Chicks: a clutch or chattering

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Clams: a bed

Cobras: a quiver

Colts: a rag

Cows: a kine, drove, herd or fold; twelve or more cows are a flink

Coyotes: a band

Cranes: a sedge

Crocodiles: a float or bask

Crows: a murder

Deer: a herd

Dogs: a pack or cowardice; Puppies: a litter

Dolphins: a pod

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Donkeys: a drove

Doves: a dule

Ducks: a brace, paddling or team

Eagles: a convocation

Elephants: a herd or parade

Elk: a gang or herd

Emus: a mob

Falcons: a cast

Ferrets: a business or fesnyng

Finches: a charm

Fish: a school, shoal, run, haul or catch

Flamingos: a stand or flamboyance

Flies: a swarm, hatch or business

Foxes: a skulk or leash

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Frogs: an army or a colony

Geese: a gaggle or flock, a skein when in flight

Giraffes: a tower

Gnats: a cloud or horde

Goats: a herd, tribe or trip

Goldfinches: a charm

Goldfish: a troubling

Gorillas: a band

Grasshoppers: a cloud

Greyhounds: a leach

Hares: a down or husk

Hawks: a cast or kettle

Hippopotami: a bloat or thunder

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Hogs: a drift or parcel

Horses: a team or harras

Hounds: a pack, mute or cry

Hyenas: a cackle

Jaguars: a shadow

Jellyfish: a smack or brood

Kangaroos: a troop or mob

Larks: an ascension or exaltation

Lemurs: a conspiracy

Leopards: a leap

Lice: a flock

Lions: a pride

Locust: a plague or cloud

Magpies: a tiding or tittering

Mallards: a sord

Manatees: an aggregation

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Mares: a stud

Martens: a richness

Minnows: a steam

Moles: a labor

Monkeys: a barrel, cartload or troop

Mules: a pack, barren or span

Nightingales: a watch

Otters: a family, romp or raft

Owls: a parliament

Oxen: a team or yoke

Oysters: a bed

Parrots: a pandemonium or company

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Partridges: a covey

Peacocks: a muster or ostentation

Penguins: a colony

Pheasants: a nest, nide or bouquet

Pigeons: a flock or flights

Pigs: a drift or drove (younger pigs), or a sounder, litter or team (older pigs)

Ponies: a string

Porcupines: a prickle

Rabbits: a colony or warren

Raccoons: a gaze

Rats: a colony, pack, swarm or mischief

Rattlesnakes: a rhumba

Ravens: an unkindness

Rhinoceroses: a crash

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Sharks: a shiver

Sheep: a drove or flock

Skunks: a stench

Snakes: a nest or knot

Sparrows: a host

Squirrels: a dray or scurry

Starlings: a murmuration

Stingrays: a fever

Storks: a mustering

Swans: a bevy or lamentation, a wedge when in flight

Tigers: an ambush or a streak

Toads: a knot or knab

Trout: a hover

Turkeys: a gang, posse or rafter

Turtles: a bale or nest

Vultures: a venue

Wasps: a pledge

Weasels: a colony, gang or pack

Whales: a pod, school or gam

Wolves: a pack or route

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Wombats: a wisdom

Woodpeckers: a descent

Zebras: a zeal
 
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Bees are a colony. A swarm is when half of the bees and the queen leave their old home and cluster somewhere while they look around for a new place to live.

Lots of cool names. I will have to ask my primate loving neighbor if he knows all the terms for apes, lemurs, monkeys....
 
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Bees are a colony. A swarm is when half of the bees and the queen leave their old home and cluster somewhere while they look around for a new place to live.

Lots of cool names. I will have to ask my primate loving neighbor if he knows all the terms for apes, lemurs, monkeys....
I love the one for ferrets. They're all "business!"

Ba-dun ting!
 
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Have you ever eaten one? Is it worth the effort to try growing a tree?
No, they’re not very nice for the modern palate apparently.

Re. The article, I had read somewhere that they were an importance source of vitamin C in medieval Europe, before oranges and other stuff started appearing.
 
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Male chevrotain use their long canine teeth, which protrude like fangs, to compete for mates and territory. These fights are usually brief and involve biting, charging, and high-pitched vocalizations. Chevrotain are small and lack horns or antlers, so their fangs are especially important for them.
 
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