the collective noun for penguin

Group dynamics are funny in a situation like this. There are about 200 passengers, about 20 Expedition Staff (and we were told about the same number of ship staff as passengers). That's a good size number of people but it is constant and continual and you do start to recognize and get to know many of them, compounded as it is by the activities that you are sharing and then have to talk about and go over, in this closed system where there is no where else to go anyway

Anyway, so there are many people I recognize to say hello to and chat about where we just were and what the landings or lectures or lunch had been like. And many more know who I am because a. I was one of the crazies that went swimming, and b. I (as a nice British lady keeps exclaiming every time I go past her) I am the girl who wanders around outside in just her sweater! Well truth to be told, I am usually in a fleece vest too. Anyway, it has worked out that within the larger group Mom and I have developed a cohort, and we have a spot. There is a section of the Wheeler Lounge that we have claimed as our own and others seem to be leaving it be. Partly because there is usually a sweater or computer lying around but mostly because one of us is always there. The group is the core four of me, Mom, Kate and Gary (who are Canadian by way of Britain) but then there are 4 or 5 others that joins us occasionally but regularly. So it is nice.

Anyway, it was in one of these hang-out sessions watching the transit from Enterprise to Cuverville Island where we would, if the weather got better, have another landfall late in the afternoon that the question of what the collective noun for penguins was posed. And we can all guess who asked. So sitting there chatting and guessing, and Gary said --look it up, and my laptop was right there. So even in Antarctica, you can google your way to the answer you are wondering about. I had suggested a Tuxedo of penguins, or a come-here, come-here -- to reflect the way they are always waving you over with their stubby little wings but the ones listed were so BORING. Huddle, colony, creche and parcel. Really? When there is a waltz of piglets or an an implausibility of platypi, or an ostentation of peacocks, or a pomp of Pekingese, even an Aurora of polar bears. And this is just the P's. Please. The Penguins deserve better. So, suggestions, what would a good collective noun for these funny fellows be?

And by the way, there should also be a collective noun for people who meet and befriend each other within the larger milling masses of an enclosed group. Now the possibilities for that are interesting....