Step 1 : Introduction to the question ""Hootie" is part of a group name; what type of animal is it associated with?"
...Darius Rucker and Mark Bryan began as The Wolf Brothers, but in 1986, Dean Felber joined them and formed Hootie & the Blowfish. "Hootie" and "Blowfish" were nicknames given to two of their classmates. Jim Sonefeld joined the group a few years later. In the U.S., their "Cracked Rear View" album was the highest selling album of 1995.
