Depends what animals:
A pack of wolves
A herd of cows
A pride of lions
A gaggle of geese On the ground)
A flock of geese (airborne)
A sleuth of bears
A pod of whales
Etc.
For people it's also various:
A band of men
A panel of experts
A bench/sentence of judges
A faculty of academics
In other words probably more than you can shake a stick at.
A group of animals or plants related by descent and similar in most characteristics is called a species..species are the basic unit of classification in biology, and members of the same species can interbreed and produce viable offspring.
A large scientific group of plants or animals is called a species. There are many different types of plants and animals all grouped into species based on how they react in an environment.
A group made up of drifting plants and animals are called plankton. Plankton is a source of food for many animals such as whales.
A group of plants and animals adapted to similar conditions is called a community.
Plankton are a large group of various organisms that drift in waters and are eaten by larger organisms. They consists of very small animals, algae, bacteria and protists. As a group they contain both animals and plants (algae).
Forest ecosystem.
environment
A group of communities that covers a large area and that contains a characteristic assemblage of plants and animals is called an ecosystem. All things in the natural world are connected.
The groupe of animals known as siege is called Heron.
No, they do not have a backbone, they have an exoskeleton.
In the English language, there are a huge variety of names for groups of animals and groups of plants and groups of people.See the "What are the names for various groups of animals?" for some of them.Typically such groups have members that are related to each other.The special case of a group of organisms that are genetically identical to each other -- which happens in the wild with many kinds of plants and bacteria, and a very few species of animals -- is called a clonal colony.
A group of related buttons is called a panel or a bank.