There's this thing in English where they discuss 'collective nouns.'
So you could call a group 'a murder of crows,' or 'an exaltation of larks.'
http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/about/faqs/animals/names.htmWhat do you call a bunch of skanks?
I will go with my first instinct as per above: 'a stew of skanks.'
(Someone call the Library of Congress and tell it that this dilemna is solved.)