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[jayrandom]

Посмотрите, какой задира! Это ж надо такой наглости набраться!

Хотя Цзяо-Кун мне рассказал о своих собственных наблюдениях: у них в палисаднике несколько птиц подобным образом издевалось над кошками. Впрочем, как ворона клевала едящего кота я и сам видел: клюнет и отбежит. Кот только ворчал, но есть не переставал. А когда доел, ворона улетела. Но китаец наблюдал в подобной "задирающей" роли воробъёв и даже голубей. Это для меня большая неожиданность.

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[fstassi.livejournal.com]

Бандарлог))))))

[jayrandom.livejournal.com]

Пожалуй :)

They belonged to the tree-tops, and as beasts very seldom look up, there was no occasion for the monkeys and the Jungle-People to cross each other's path. But whenever they found a sick wolf, or a wounded tiger, or bear, the monkeys would torment him, and would throw sticks and nuts at any beast for fun and in the hope of being noticed. Then they would howl and shriek senseless songs, and invite the Jungle-People to climb up their trees and fight them, or would start furious battles over nothing among themselves, and leave the dead monkeys where the Jungle-People could see them. They were always just going to have a leader, and laws and customs of their own, but they never did, because their memories would not hold over from day to day, and so they compromised things by making up a saying, "What the Bandar-log think now the jungle will think later," and that comforted them a great deal. None of the beasts could reach them, but on the other hand none of the beasts would notice them, and that was why they were so pleased when Mowgli came to play with them, and they heard how angry Baloo was.

-- THE JUNGLE BOOK by Rudyard Kipling, "Kaa's Hunting"

[fstassi.livejournal.com]

я запостила линк со ссылкой на вас)))

[jayrandom.livejournal.com]

спасибо :)

[chip33.livejournal.com]

И я тоже. ;)