The "Terms of venery" section[0] of the Wikipedia page for collective nouns will probably answer some of your questions. In German, as far as I'm aware, we don'

The "Terms of venery" section[0] of the Wikipedia page for collective nouns will probably answer some of your questions. In German, as far as I'm aware, we don't have that many different collective nouns for groups of animals (or at least they are never used outside of hunting circles). We have "Schwarm" for fish and birds, "Rudel" for pack animals, "Herde" for farm animals and most herbivores, "Schule" for whales/dolphins (and possibly some other animals). Those are the ones I can thing of off the top of my head, but there certainly must be a few more. Not eveb close to the variety in English though. [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_noun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_noun