As an aside, I feel like all animal group names should be alliterative, even if they have to be shared. Also, crows have never struck me as being particularly murderous.
A group of crows is called a “murder.” There are several different explanations for the origin of this term, mostly based on old folk tales and superstitions.
For instance, there is a folktale that crows will gather and decide the capital fate of another crow.
Many view the appearance of crows as an omen of death because ravens and crows are scavengers and are generally associated with dead bodies, battlefields, and cemeteries, and they’re thought to circle in large numbers above sites where animals or people are expected to soon die.
But the term “murder of crows” mostly reflects a time when groupings of many animals had colorful and poetic names. Other fun examples of “group” names include: an ostentation of peacocks, a parliament of owls, a knot frogs, and a skulk of foxes.
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ChicoSuave@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y
That picture at the bottom is like 12% predator by volume
MossyHabitat@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y
That we know of so far... Release the Epstein files, Krasnov.
miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 1y
Is that about 4 football fields?
sausager@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
No, 3.5 churches
Kbobabob@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Because protecting predators doesn't make you one?
thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 1y
“Grabass Of Pedophiles”, or GOP for short.
don@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 1y
As an aside, I feel like all animal group names should be alliterative, even if they have to be shared. Also, crows have never struck me as being particularly murderous.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 1y
That's probably because you haven't wronged one. Good job so far! 👌
damnedfurry@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
I looked it up:
baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 1y
a cackle of crows can be very murderous if you accidentally slight them
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Release the Trump/Epstein files
crusa187@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 1y
Hope they live to rue the day we release the Trump-Epstein files.