animal group - a group of animalsteam - two or more draft animals that work together to pull something brood - the young of an animal cared for at one time flock - a group of sheep or goats fauna - all the animal life in a particular region herd - a group of cattle or sheep or other domestic mammals all of the same kind that are herded by humans herd - a group of wild animals of one species that remain together: antelope or elephants or seals or whales or zebra pack - a group of hunting animals pod - a group of aquatic mammals shoal, school - a large group of fish; "a school of small glittering fish swam by" colony - a group of animals of the same type living together colony - (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell swarm, cloud - a group of many insects; "a swarm of insects obscured the light"; "a cloud of butterflies" breed, strain, stock - a special variety of domesticated animals within a species; "he experimented on a particular breed of white rats"; "he created a new strain of sheep" drove - a group of animals (a herd or flock) moving together litter - the offspring at one birth of a multiparous mammal |