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After a flood - "it is well known that carrot-nibblers with long ears cause floods" - the wolves decide to imprison the rabbits, "for their own good". Weeks later the other animals notice the absence of the rabbits and ask the wolves about them. The wolves answer that it is "a purely internal matter" (because they ate the rabbits).
An illustration of the fable by J.M.Condé, 1905. The Dog and the Wolf is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 346 in the Perry Index. [1] It has been popular since antiquity as an object lesson of how freedom should not be exchanged for comfort or financial gain. An alternative fable with the same moral concerning different animals is less well known.
"The Wolf accusing the Fox before the Monkey" from La Fontaine's collection Fables. An animal tale or beast fable generally consists of a short story or poem in which animals talk. They may exhibit other anthropomorphic qualities as well, such as living in a human-like society. It is a traditional form of allegorical writing. [1]
Print/export Download as PDF ... Help. See also: Category:Fables and Category:Novels about animals Subcategories. This category has the following 12 subcategories ...
The fable only existed in Greek sources formerly and concerns a lion and boar who fight each other to be the first to drink from a spring. Observing vultures gathering to swoop on the loser, the two fierce animals decide that it is better to have friendly relations rather than be eaten by such vile creatures.
Articles relating to fables, succinct fictional stories, in prose or verse, that feature animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized, and that illustrate or lead to a particular moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be added explicitly as a concise maxim.
Coloured print of La Fontaine's fable by Jean-Baptiste Oudry, c. 1750. The Ant and the Grasshopper, alternatively titled The Grasshopper and the Ant (or Ants), is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 373 in the Perry Index. [1] The fable describes how a hungry grasshopper begs for food from an ant when winter comes and is refused.
In 1953 the fable was adapted to a two-minute animated cartoon ending with an advertisement for Coca-Cola as a promoter of friendship. [26] The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) twice adapted the story. As The Bear and the Mouse it was issued as a short feature film in 1966 using real animals with voice-over.