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What do you call a Group of Badgers?

Chris has it, but having made the acquaintance of many badgers in my day, I think it would be more appropriate to call it a "malevolent" or maybe even an "evil" of badgers.

For those that have never met one in person they are interesting creatures. They don't need food, oxygen, water, or shelter. They run on hate.
 
Chris is, of course, correct. I first got interested in the odd names for groups of animals and birds when I read Ruth Rendell's mystery, An Unkindness of Ravens. There are some very odd group names, for example:

Shrewdness of Apes
Business of Ferrets
Richness of Martens
Murder of Crows

Some names imply the character of the animal:

Cloud of Grasshoppers
Plague of locusts
Tower of Giraffes
Prickle of Porcupines
Crash of Rhinoceroses

Tim (The Old Coot: a group of us together are a Cover of Old Coots)
 

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Got lucky with dead badgers
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Chris is, of course, correct. I first got interested in the odd names for groups of animals and birds when I read Ruth Rendell's mystery, An Unkindness of Ravens. There are some very odd group names, for example:

Shrewdness of Apes
Business of Ferrets
Richness of Martens
Murder of Crows

Some names imply the character of the animal:

Cloud of Grasshoppers
Plague of locusts
Tower of Giraffes
Prickle of Porcupines
Crash of Rhinoceroses

Tim (The Old Coot: a group of us together are a Cover of Old Coots)

Very good but you left out a lyrical one, an exaltation of larks.
 
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