a congress of ...? say that again!

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    The English language has some wonderfully anthropomorphic collective nouns for the various groups of animals.

    We are all familiar with a School of fish and a Gaggle of geese.

    However, less widely known is a Murder of crows, an Exaltation of doves, and, presumably because they look so wise (?), a Parliament of owls.

    Now consider a group of Baboons. They are the loudest, most dangerous, most obnoxious, most viciously aggressive and least intelligent of all primates.

    And what is the proper collective noun for a group of baboons? Believe it or not ...... a Congress of Baboons!
 
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