Bunch o' critters.

We often hear that animals have curious names when they get together. One raven is okay, but you get a bunch in the same place and you have a conspiracy. Owls, on the other hand, prefer to be a parliament. And a bunch of otters is a family. Which is nice. 

A "mischief" of rats

Some animals seem to have chosen the cool names themselves, like a pride of lions or a sounder of pigs. Others got stuck with the leftover names, like a sloth of bears or a smack of jellyfish. Some seem to have taken more deserving names from others -- while the pandemonium of parrots comes across as pretty appropriate, did anyone ask the pandas what they thought?

Along these lines, I have twenty animals that I thought could use new and better collective nouns. Let's see what you think. 

A dress parade of chinstrap penguins

A beer run of  Clydesdales

A coatrack of ibexes

A cuteness of red pandas

A hellspawn of mosquitoes

A dropbox of koalas

A cuddle of anacondas

A film noir of pandas

A classroom of hamsters 

A catastrophe of turkey vultures

A chorus line of blue-footed boobies

A bloodbath of honey badgers

A bluh-blah-bluh of vampire bats

A laugh track of hyenas

A Targetful of ladybugs 

An outbreak of spotted salamanders 

A fart of blowfish

A Jonathan of jackrabbits

A shelling of snails

A lotl axolotls

I was going to come up with one for egrets, but I have no egrets.

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That's all I have today. As always, your further suggestions are welcome in the comments.