Animal group names, like a "skein" of geese or a "pod" of dolphins, comes from hunters hundreds of years ago.
It's like how we use different names for animal groups (or "collective nouns") but the history is a lot different. We call lots of baby animals cubs, kits, and kids (including human kids!). Peafowl are called peacocks and peahens, like chickens with "pea" in front. Bulls and Cows can described bovines, elephants, giraffes, and camels. A rooster and a hen do different jobs (chickens), so do stallions and mares (horses).Īfter that we reuse a lot of names for similar groups of animals. It's most common for animals that have important jobs because male bovines and female bovines have different jobs, we call them Bulls and Cows. There isn't really any special reason for the different names that we use, although we can sometimes figure out some explanations. The origin of different animal names in English dates back a really long time. So, we're gonna give you a list of some of the common words for animals of different genders. Some of them can be pretty strange, or they don't get used much you might not hear someone call a turkey a "gobbler," or a ferret a "hob," but those are both real names. In addition to normal animal names, many of the most common animals have different names for male and female animals, and for young ones. Names for male animals, female animals, and baby animals
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