Anthropomorphic is a ten dollar adjective for human like nouns. We use human words to describe animals and their behavior. If they could talk, I bet they would have some pretty choice words for us.
We humans call a bunch of cows, a "herd." A group of geese is a "gaggle." And, a bunch of fish is a "school." Then there’s a bunch of sheep - a "flock." I don’t know where we came up with these, but who can explain anything in the English language.
You may not know, but when you bunch up lions, they are a "pride." There’s a "murder" of crows, and a "parliament" of owls.
Baboons are the loudest, most dangerous, most obnoxious, most viciously aggressive and least intelligent of all the primates. I guess that’s why the collective noun for a group of baboons shouldn’t surprise anyone. "A congress."
Isn’t that an insult to baboons?
PMO
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