Animal Stories

'I am afraid to take this leap of faith. You say that the eagle alone can look into the sun. And the sun rejuvenates its eyes. But I am weak and fearful."

"If I am no eagle, the sun will scorch mine. And smite them down for my arrogance."

"Interestingly again, this wasn’t a one-off bird showing greater intelligence."

"More than half the birds tested were able to use these three tools in the correct sequence to get to their food..."

Did you know that one in four spotted hyena pups is killed by their own litter-mate.

Offspring of the black eagle are even more ruthless. The eagle lays two eggs, and the first chick to hatch makes sure its brother or sister never makes it out of the nest alive.

"An eagle was sitting on a tree resting," answered Rosh, remembering an old online joke he'd read, "doing nothing."

"A little rabbit saw the eagle and asked him, "Can I also sit like you and do nothing?"

As they milled about on le Champ de Mars, loud discussions raged about the chances of the frogs.

"No way anyone will get to the top!” said one.

"Yeah, it's just too far for the poor buggers," agreed another.

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Rosh responds with classical elephant jokes when Hosh grills his tired father on elephants.

"This is also the reason why people drink more in noisy pubs and discoes and then make stupid decisions there. Because their brain gets too overloaded. It simply can't think properly in all that din."

"And when you drink there, it gets even worse. The dumbest chick starts looking like Aphrodite."

"From next week, you are going to join Karate lessons," he said after Josh had finished speaking.

"You will at least learn to defend yourself, if you can't learn to keep out of trouble in the first place."

"I sometimes feel like doing some damage," Josh's eyes were filled with tears, "they are so unfair. They are not my schoolmates, but curses that plague me constantly."

"It annoys me so much, I don't know what to do with them... Or myself... Anymore."

“Come on Pa,” Josh was incredulous. “That story can’t be literally true."

"Crows are stupid. Look at that one. He looks stupid, he acts stupid, he talks stupid. Aesop must have seen a special crow.”

Our education system has become a race. A race amongst all sorts of participants. Fast and slow, bright and dumb.

And it’s not always the fast or bright who get to win this race. Like in the old Aesopian fable about a race between a hare and a tortoise.

"Biological aging happens at two levels - one at the level of my whole being which you call Pa, and another at the part level of my individual cells that make up my body."

"The age of my whole body is different from the age of my individual cells just like the age of your toy car may be different from the age of its individual parts.”