Which one is correct?
'many thousands of animals ' or 'much thousands of animals'
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Notwithstanding the inevitable exceptions that come with English, countable nouns (potatoes, rocks, thousands) generally use "many" whereas uncountable nouns (milk, sand, justice) use "much".
Many for countable nouns is the correct one here but a better collocation would be :
Tens of thousands of animals ...