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Other animals looking for food will come along too and must be scared away from the bait or killed. The first animal to come along is usually the hyena. The hyena is an animal with a peculiar screech that sounds likea laugh. But he laughs when he is mad, not when he is glad. He is too much of a coward to kill live animals.so he waits until he can find one dead. He is the most cowardly animal in the jungle.
In the jungle every animal must either fight, run away, or be killed; there are no policemen to look out forhim.
The bravest animal in the jungle, strange to say, is not the lion—he doesn’t have to be; the monkey is thebravest.
When a lion’s roar shakes the jungle all the animals start on the runaway from him, but the last to run away are the monkeys. When a hunter who is hiding and waiting for a lion to come along sees the hyena pass by, he knows the lion is far behind, for the hyena is the first to run away; but when at last, after all the other animals have passed by fleeing, the monkeys come along, the hunter knows the lion is close behind. A hunter will not shoot a monkey if he can help it—he looks so much like a child. He will cry like a child when hurt, and if shot try to pull the bullet out with his hands, and that’s more than even hunters can stand.
Some animals will not eat meat—only growing things. The giraffe, the animal with a long neck and still longer legs, doesn’t eat meat. He eats only what he can reach with his long neck—usually leaves and twigs of trees. When he wants to drink or to eat anything on the ground he must spread his legs apart like a letter “A” so that he can reach the water.
