Tuesday Top Ten: Animal Grouping Names

I realize I haven't done a Tuesday Top Ten in a while, and that's because I usually try to think of something musically related, which usually just takes too much damn time.  So I'm going with something a little more lighthearted.  We all know that a group of wolves is a pack, a group of fish is a school, and a group of lions is a pride, but there are some pretty funny and awesome names for groups of animals that you may or may not know.  For instance, did you know that, if it had been accurate, the '80s new wave band A Flock of Seagulls should have been called A Squabble of Seagulls?  Fact.  Anyway, here are my ten favorite, with some honorable mentions thrown in.

Honorable mention:  a convocation of eagles; an embarrassment of pandas; a pandemonium of parrots; an ostentation of peacocks; a stubbornness of rhinoceroses; a committee of vultures

10.  A parliament of owls

9.  An exaltation of larks

8.  A shrewdness of apes

7.  A mutation of thrushes

6.  An unkindness of ravens

5.  A slaughter of iguanas

4.  An implausibility of gnus

3.  A maelstrom of salamanders

2.  A murder of crows

1.  A conspiracy of lemurs (which would be a great name for a band or an album)