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collective noun for gorillas

"troop"
"group"
"flange"
"band"
What is the collective noun (the word for a group, such as "herd") for the class Gorilla, a largest species of primates?
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Collective nouns for groups of animals are fun. Everyone knows that a group of fish is a ... http://www.AllAboutNature.com/subjects/apes/gorilla/ What is a group of gorillas called?
It is not "troop" as that is for monkeys and gorillas are apes! I have heard the word "tribe" used but that doesn't sound right. I cannot find this answer anywhere.
Did you know that the collective noun for bears is a sloth? Can you think of any other ... forgeries, like 'a flourish of strumpets (whores)' and the recent 'flange of gorillas'.
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In linguistics, a collective noun is a word used to define a group of objects, where objects ... A Whoop of Gorillas: An Amazement of Animal Facts. Penguin. (First published Penguin ...

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