What's what at the zoo

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Dear Readers,

There are some wonderfully anthropomorphic collective nouns for groups of animals to be found in the English language.

A group of jellyfish is called a smack, magpies a charm and mice a mischief. A group of otters is called a romp, tigers an ambush, pigs a litter.

There are prides of lions, exaltations of doves, murders of ravens, herds of asses, schools of fish and parliaments of owls.

A group of unicorns is called a blessing, kangaroos a mob, frogs an army, rhinos
a crash and whales a pod.

But let us now consider the baboon...one of the loudest, most dangerous, viciously aggressive and obnoxious of all primates.

So what pray tell, is the proper collective noun for a group of baboons?

Yes, that's right...

A Congress!
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Editor's Comment:

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Why am I not surprised? I do think that the asses thing fits very well for a goodly number of our esteemed legislators.