Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Lesson 26. Today we're going to look at the
differences between herd, pack, flock, and school. Probably the first thing to note
here is to realize there are many, many, many names of animal groups. As I looked
into it. I didn't realize there was so many. There's probably more than 100 but
I'm covering these four because these are the four that we come across
probably the most often. Sometimes again students when they hear animal
groups , they say what's the difference between this animal group and what's the
difference between that animal group ? So I'm giving you some information so you
can pretty much try to figure out at least these four groups, of what animals
might fit into these categories. So all right. let's take a look. Let's take a
look at the first one here. Herd, a large group of animals that live, feed and
travel around together. Okay. That's good to start with. Also we
could note this and there is a second meaning, we have to cover too. Also a group of animals that are
herded by humans, especially like on a farm or livestock, especially cattle or
any, any animals in the cow family you know buffalo, cows, bulls but it even
includes sheep, horse, you know on a farm where they remember to herd means
that they, they gather them together in a group. So that are herded, especially
livestock. So animals that would fall into livestock category. A lot of them we
might use the word herd for and then here's some other hints that might help
you. Again this is not 100 percent. We say we tend to use the term. So tend to is not a
hundred percent but probably, if the animal falls in this category, it might
be using the term herd. So we tend to use the term herd with animals that are
physically large especially like really large animals are mammals and often
graze. Well graze also kind of goes back to livestock. We usually only graze. Most
livestock graze, you know, cows, sheep, things like that will graze. Remember
graze means to eat the grass, eat the natural grass. Farmers often take their animals
out to graze. That's what they feed on mostly. All right. So let's
take a look at some of the animals that were most common that fall in
this group. So common many examples include elephants. Again very large mammals, hippos,
cattle. Again like I said any animals in the cow family, you know bison. Also is
included there. . You know again buffaloes, bulls any animal that falls into that
category. Deer, especially large deer or you know, animals that are that are in
the deer family like a moose, elk, caribou, things like that would be probably fall
into the herd category. Horses. Yeah, especially what we say animals in the
equine family EQUINE. Well that's like the horse family. So you know that
it could include like zebras, and you know, all different styles of horses and stuff
like that. So uh camels again , you know, large, whales, most definitely large.. Also
mammals you know so most of these fall into that sort of category. So herd is
probably one of the most common ones, we use for groups of animals. All right.
Here's the next point to pay attention to. It is important to know that some
animals could also be are referred to by several name groups. So if you hear that
you know what one is herd. Yeah well I've heard a different name for that
animal. Well that's possible . There are a lot there are a number of animals that may be
referred to go into two and three groups. I give you one example here hippos. Hippos
has five I think. A group of hippos could be called a herd . They could be called a
crash. they could be called a dale will be called a bloat. They
could be called pod. So that's really a lot. Even though to be honest with you I
think I hear herd the most. But okay . So or we say a group of camels could be called a
herd . they could be called a caravan. it could also called a flock. I was kind of
surprised with that because we're going to get to flock later usually this is a
three different animals I'll cover most of that group. Okay. so that's all herd
so far. All right. If we talk about pack. All right. What kind of a group is
a pack ? A group of animals that live and hunt together. So a Herd does not necessarily
hunt together. They live together and they may eat or drink together, but they
don't they don't really hunt. So packs usually hunt, especially animals in the
canine family. So the dog family. Yes. So here are some common examples. A
pack of wolves, a pack of hounds. Yeah. A pack of stray
dogs, like in Australia pack of dingoes. A pack of coyotes, any animals like, any
animals that fall into the dog family. We definitely use pack for. So it covers all
of them. This one is a little weird. We can say pack of rats. Where you can say a
pack of rats. I'm not quite sure they really hunt together,
but we use a pack for them. This is one that's a little strange. I think maybe if
you study dinosaurs more. They talk about carnivorous dinosaurs. They used to use
that. So if you went even though, who really knows what or which, which
dinosaurs really lived in packs , but they actually have that on the list of
our packs. So, so meat- eating dinosaurs et cetera. All right, and let's take a
look at the next one that's pretty big. A flock, a group of birds. Yeah. Probably most birds.
I might not necessarily know a hundred percent. No . But
most birds probably could be referred to as a flock. We also use it with sheep and
goats. just like I said in a sheep was also referred
to as a flock. So these are common ones that here with flock. So, again I
gave you the examples of a flock of sea gulls. Sea gulls, remember that I think that used to
be a band in the 1980s called a flock of sea gulls. a flock of pigeons, etc. and
remember I said even though it seems strange, that they also said a flock of
camels, but it doesn't quite fit into this category. But again, it's surprising
that sometimes they may use the animal name for a particular group. But I think
birds, sheep, and goats cover most of flock that you'll hear. Again , there's so
many names, you probably don't really need to learn
them all , because we don't talk about them all very much. Again I chose these
four because these are the four that you hear most commonly in articles or
news reports. or you know that's talking about animals. Okay and the last one is
school. A large number of fish or other sea creatures moving through the water
together. Yeah. We use it with a lot of different fish you know, especially when
you see all the fish they're all swimming in the same direction coming
together. We use it for a school of dolphins, a school of tuna, a
snapper fish. minnows , minnows were the ones that was in the 'Finding
Nemo ' movie. But anyway so this this covers them all. Again, there are many
many more animal groups and like I said it's probably really not necessary to
learn them all. These four are the main ones that you'll like you'll probably hear the
most. Often, so that's why I covered them in this lesson. Okay. Thank you for your
time. Bye-bye.