Dad is not a Gander, Mom is not a Goose

This wonderful book is about different names for males, females, babies and groups in the animal and insect worlds. The narrator begins saying that not all female, mother, male, or baby animals are called by the same names. Some of the verses are: // My mom is called a lady, my dad is called a man. I'm called a little kid, and I'll tell you what I can. / Human females are called "women", and males are called "men". But, a male turkey is a "tom", and a female is a "hen". / Whether in a romp of otter, or in an audience of squid, all groups of animals have males and females and kids. / Calves and cows and bulls, could be in a herd of moose or buffalo, or bank of Komodo Dragons, or tower of giraffes, you know. / They could be in a drove of ox, or herd of gazelle or gnu, or herd of yak or gang of elk, or memory of elephants, too, / or pod of walrus or crash of rhinos, or caravan of camels in the sand, or pod of porpoise, dolphins or whales, thunder of hippos or flamingo chicks in a stand. / If mom were a sow and dad, a boar, and we were in a drift of pigs, I'd be called a piglet- at least until I was big. / Well, my dad is not a gander. My mom is not a goose. And I am not a gosling, in a gaggle on the loose. / My mom is not a ewe. Dad is not a ram. We are not sheep in a mob, drove or flock, and I am not a lamb. / Some names like spiderling and salamanderling, and baby fingerling of trout, and cod codling and duck duckling. We can tell what these are about. / We could be in a barrel of monkeys, or in a mischief of mice, or a waddle of penguins, or flutter of butterflies. / With names like quiver of cobra or finch, it's easy to get confused. When talking of dragonflies and antelope, "cluster" is the name used. / We could be a family of sardines or beavers, cabinet of wren or a jellyfish smack, or a colony of weasels or frogs, or jackals or wolves in a pack. // More fun verses follow.