Most people have heard the ___(1)___ "a gaggle of geese' or "a pride of lions." Where did these phrases for animal groups come from? Who made them ___(2)___? In the Middle Ages, England was ___(3)___ rural, and hunting was an important part of every nobleman's or noblewoman's life. Hunting ___(4)___ required socially acceptable terms for these nobles to use to ___(5)___ the animal groups they hunted. Books of courtesy, early books on manners, first listed these phrases used for the hunt. More recently, people interested in language have come up with ___(6)___ to describe groups of animals not usually ___(7)___ with a hunt. Among these descriptive phrases are "a tower of giraffes" and " a ___(8)___ of crocodiles". What descriptive terms for animal groups can you ___(9)___ of? Test your originality. For example, what clever name might you ___(10)___ to a group of elephants other than "a herd of elephants"?