The English language has some wonderfully anthropomorphic collective nouns for groups of animals.
There is a Pride of lions;
a Murder of crows (as well as their cousins the rooks and ravens);
a School of fish;
an Exaltation of doves;
and presumably because they look so wise, a Parliament of owls.
Now consider the baboon. The loudest, most dangerous and viciously aggressive of all primates. And what is the proper collective noun for a group of baboons?
A Congress.
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