🌊💙An ode to the ocean’s collective clusters 💙🌊

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In the animal kingdom, there’s something unique,
A special way to describe when animals meet,
It’s the world of collective nouns, that are quirky and fun,
Describing groups of animals with more than one.

♨️A smack of jellies. Related to the potentially painful smack  of a jelly’s sting. Jellies belonging to the phylum cnidaria have stinging cells called cnidocytes. These stinging cells eject a hollow, harpoon-like structure that penetrates the flesh of unsuspecting prey and releases a venom that can cause an uncomfortable, burning sensation. 

🐧A tuxedo of penguins. Penguins have black and white coloration—like a tuxedo. This countershading is used to camouflage them from predators viewing them from above and below—think looking up at the sunlit surface and not being able to see the penguin’s white belly or looking down toward the seafloor and trying to make out the penguin’s black back.

🎪 A circus of puffins. The Atlantic puffins have bright orange feet and red tips on their beaks.  This gives them the comical appearance of a clown—with bright shoes and a red nose. This term was adopted for the entire circus of clown birds!  

🥑Then there’s the collective noun we made up for a guac of molas—no explanation necessary. 

Tell us your favorite collective noun!

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