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The use of talking animals enables storytellers to combine the basic characteristics of the animal with human behavior, to apply metaphor, and to entertain children as well as adults. [1] Animals are used in a variety of ways in fictional works including to illustrate morality lessons for children, to instill wonder in young readers, [ 1 ] and ...
Originally the other animals besides the hen consist of a rat, a cat, a dog, a duck, and a pig. [1] Later adaptations often reduce the number of other animals to three. The story was likely intended as a literature primer for young readers, but departed from highly moralistic, often religious stories written for the same purpose.
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.
Pages in category "Short stories about talking animals" The following 109 pages are in this category, out of 109 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The story of the tortoise and the birds appears in a section illustrating the sentiment that 'a man hath no greater enemy than himself'. The French fabulist Jean de la Fontaine also found the story in an early digest of Bidpai's work and added it to his fables as La Tortue et les deux Canards (X.3). For him the story illustrates human vanity ...
The earliest reference to the Blue Jackal can be found in Panchatantra, a collection of stories which depict animals in human situations (see anthropomorphism, Talking animals in fiction). In each of the stories every animal has a "personality" and each story ends in a moral. [citation needed]
Short stories about talking animals (9 C, 116 P) Songs about talking animals (14 P) T. Television series about talking animals (6 C, 40 P)
Anthropomorphic cat guarding geese, Egypt, c. 1120 BCE. Fable is a literary genre defined as a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized, and that illustrates or leads to a particular moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be added explicitly as a concise maxim or ...