A Spoonful of Caribou & More.

Warning: The following post contains the result of too much spare time spent on Wikipedia, a sense of simultaneous delight and dismay at the English language, and a boogle of weasels.
Continue at your own discretion.

We all know the commonly-cited inconsistencies in the English language.
At some point, you may have wondered what the deal was with goose/geese, sheep/sheep, and moose/moose - however, in the haze of confusion that can often surround the plurals of animals, the collective nouns used to describe them are often neglected.
This is probably a good thing, if you take some of these into consideration:

• A romp of otters.

• A gaggle of geese (when not in flight).

• A skein of geese (when in flight).

• A boogle of weasels.

• A bask of crocodiles.

• A knot of frogs.

• A creep of tortoises.

• A turn of turtles.

• A lodge of beavers.

• A sounder of boars.

• A kukpowder of bullfinches.

• A dormobile of camels.

• A spoonful of caribou.

• A gang of elk.

• A rake of mules.

• A nye of pheasants.

• A parcel of hogs.

• A waltz of piglets.

And last but not least:

• A pile of platypi.

I wish some of these were fictional.
I really do.