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In this version it is the crocodile's wife who, after enjoying the figs given by the monkey to her husband, desires to eat the monkey's heart. [4] Whereas the Swahili version has only one embedded tale, in the Panchatantra version the monkey and crocodile tell each other numerous tales in the course of their story, the second of which ...
Muggle-Wump" the monkey is a fictional character in some of Roald Dahl's books for children, and "the Muggle-Wumps" are his family. A Muggle-Wump appears in The Enormous Crocodile and there is a Muggle-Wump with a family in The Twits. [1] A Muggle-Wump lookalike (shown in Quentin Blake's illustrations) appears in The Giraffe and the Pelly and ...
The Monkey and the Crocodile; ... (Open Access PDF). ... (Jātakanidāna): Prologue to the Birth Stories: an English translation of a critical edition based on six ...
The fourth book contains thirteen fables in Ryder translation: Loss of Gains, The Monkey and the Crocodile, Handsome and Theodore, Flop-Ear and Dusty, The Potter Militant, The Jackal Who Killed No Elephants, The Ungrateful Wife, King Joy and Secretary Splendor, The Ass in the Tiger-Skin, The Farmer's Wife, The Pert Hen-Sparrow, How Supersmart ...
(13 additional stories) 122-132 On losing what you have gained: The monkey and the unfaithful crocodile: 91 [13] IV.Frame IV.Frame 133 IV.Frame The poisonous friendship IV.1 The brainless donkey: 52 IV.1 IV.1 133A IV.2 The honest muscular potter and his scar IV.3 The jackal that killed no elephants IV.4 The Brahmin and his ungrateful wife IV.5
Cheburashka is an iconic Russian cartoon-character who later became a popular figure in Russian jokes (along with his friend, Gena the Crocodile). According to the creator of the character, Eduard Uspensky, Cheburashka is an "animal unknown to science", with large monkey-like ears and a body resembling that of a cub, who lives in a tropical forest.
A large female Nile crocodile that stalks and kills teenagers for raiding her nest. Gustave Primeval: 2005 Michael Katleman: Inspired by a true story, Gustave is an enormous male Nile Crocodile in Africa responsible for the deaths of 300 people. Lizzie Rampage: 2018 Brad Peyton: A giant American crocodile from the Everglades mutated by CRISPR.
The Crocodile stretching the nose of the Elephant's Child in one of Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories. Crocodilians have been recurring characters in stories for children, such as Roald Dahl's The Enormous Crocodile (1978) and Emily Gravett's The Odd Egg (2008). [185]