151 Jungle Tales

Once upon a time, an old gorilla lived in the jungle, with his beautiful daughter. His daughter had grown up, so the gorilla was looking for a groom for his beautiful girl. One day, he announced, “Whoever finds the rarest thing on the earth, can marry her.” All the young gorillas agreed and went to […]

A young she-leopard, Tina, lived in the forest. Her brother also lived with her. Tina was an excellent cook and used to make new dishes every day. One day, Tina’s brother saw that a young leopard was being attacked by an elephant. This young leopard was new to that territory and was trying to save

A tiger had been travelling for many months. He covered a long distance across the valleys, over the mountains and back towards his forest. When he returned home, he was happy because his brothers had organised a welcome feast for him. He exclaimed, “I am lucky to have such loving brothers!” But, generally, the truth

Once a family of lions lived in a dense forest. One day, the lion was prowling through the forest in search of prey. He found a lost jackal cub in the forest. He said to the lioness, “Let us raise him along with our two cubs.” The three cubs grew up together, as brothers. Some

A flock of crows lived in a forest, far away from the sea. They had never seen the sea. One day, they flew very far, and reached the sea-shore. They were very surprised to see the sea- waves. One crow said, “The water is calling us to play.” Another said, “Let us all play with

Once, a flock of quails lived together in a jungle. Some of the quails were fat while some were lean. The fat quails always used to make fun of the lean ones. “You poor skinny things!” they would say. They called them ‘rags and bones’ and other rude names, too. One day, the baboon’s wife

Once upon a time, the crows and the owls were enemies. One day, all the crows in the jungle made their homes in a huge banyan tree. The tree had hundreds of branches. The king of the crows ensured security for his brood, but was not very vigilant. He did not know that some owls

One day in a jungle, a tiger attacked a fox. The fox cried out, “How dare you attack the king of the jungle?” The tiger roared in anger, “Grrrrrrrrr!” He looked at the fox in amazement and said, “I am the king of the jungle, not you!” The fox replied, “All the animals run from

Once, there lived an old wolf in the jungle who had no children. One day, he was wandering in the jungle, when he saw two wolf cubs playing under a tree. He looked here and there, saw that nobody was watching, and stole them. After a few days, news spread all over the jungle, that

Once there lived a frog, who had two wives. His first wife lived in Santa and the second wife lived in Clara. He went sometimes to Santa and sometimes to Clara, to see his wives. Once a little frog came to him and said, “Come to Santa, please! Your first wife has a nice pudding

Long ago, no animal had tails. One day, the lion decided that all animals should have tails and he designed a tail for each animal. When the tails were ready, he called all the animals. All the animals went except the rat. The rat felt too lazy and asked a monkey to fetch his tail,

One day, a group of monkeys decided to go on a fast. The oldest monkey asked the youngest one to bring some bananas to be eaten later in the evening. Suddenly, the wife of the chief monkey asked, “Why don’t we peel one banana and keep it ready to eat?” “Yes, let us do that!”

Once, there lived a crow and a sparrow in a jungle. They both were good friends. On the birthday of the king of birds, the eagle, all the birds went to his castle, at the sea-shore. The crow and the sparrow also went there, along with all the other birds. On the way, the two

It was a hot summer day. After wandering for many hours, a bull sat down to take some rest, chewing cud with his eyes half shut. All of a sudden, he realised that a tiny animal was sitting on his horn. It was a parakeet. Silently, she sat on one of the horns of the

Once, a doe and her parents lived in a jungle. The parents were very unhappy with their daughter, the doe, because she was always fighting with them. One day, the doe left her abode and went to a nearby jungle and started staying with her friends. Once, the doe and her friend were resting in