What businesses are these ferrets running, and what conspiracies are these lemurs devising? It's a question that you might be asking after learning that a group of ferrets is called a business, while ...

How to remember: “I hate work,” one pug grumbled to the grumble of pugs. “The boss treats us like dogs.” How to remember: Our daughter read CatStronauts on her tablet, cooing over a kindle of kittens ...

If you play trivia regularly this will be good information for you. Animals that are gathered together in a group have some very unusual names. Let’s warm up with some well-known common examples. We ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Scientists estimate there are over 8 million animal species ...

Animal names for boys are having a moment, but what about animal names for girls? Though not as popular, there are two animal girl names - Ava and Penelope - that ranked rather high in the Social ...

You can add marmoset monkeys to the list of species that use “names.” But whether animals have anything more to say remains unknown. Do animals have names? According to the poet T.S. Eliot, cats have ...

Fortunate Mafeta Phaka receives funding from National Research Foundation/South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity. Naming all the creatures and plants in nature is no small task. Fortunate ...