Gerbils

A Horde of Gerbils

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A horde of gerbils rushing toward a panicked farmer and his lettuce crop.

“These look delicious!” A hungry horde of gerbils has discovered the farmer’s lettuce crop. What Does “A Horde of Gerbils” Mean? “Horde” borrows a word historically associated with large, loosely organized nomadic groups of people, and applied to gerbils, it leans into their tendency to live in sizable, tightly packed family colonies within elaborate burrow … Read more

What Is a Group of Gerbils Called?

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🐾 Mammals · Collective Nouns What Is a Group of Gerbils Called? A desert-adapted little rodent that genuinely doesn’t do well on its own. 💬 A group of gerbils is called a horde. Gerbils (most commonly the Mongolian gerbil, Meriones unguiculatus) are genuinely social animals that live in family groups in the wild, which is … Read more