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That is a load-bearing "(no explanation necessary)".
I'd love to see an explanation. How did we get from 'clowder' to 'destruction'? Gaining a syllable and losing alliteration is not a typical linguistic evolution. Who's actually using this term?
The closest I've seen actual examples of is a tongue-in-cheek 'catastrophe of cats', and that never went mainstream as far as I'm aware.