I’m trying to rationlize a false memory(?) Apparently a group of cats is actually a Clowder. Nowhere else on the internet calls it a Whisper?

I swear I was taught this the same day I learned ‘a school of fish’ and ‘a murder of crows.’ I remembered it all these years because I’d always think ‘whispuuurrrr’ in my head.

Help me out of my denial. 😭

  • @[email protected]
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    316 hours ago

    Is there even a reason they exist? Like, is it actually important to a biologist or something to say “herd of cows” instead of “group of cows”?

    • @chronotron
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      514 hours ago

      the explanation i heard once is that they were made by rich hunter fellas so they could determine who else was a rich hunter fella