First, Know Yourself

An old green grasshopper was resting on some grass on the ground, when a young grasshopper came flying and settled nearby. The young grasshopper was panting, frightened and paranoid. It was constantly being chased by one predator or another, however was lucky to escape every time. On seeing the other grasshopper sitting quietly without a worry in the world, the young grasshopper wondered how it was so calm and asked the old grasshopper if it was not afraid of becoming a prey for some frog or lizard, if not how it avoided being chased by predators. 

The grasshopper woke up from its slumber, looked at the young grasshopper and said,” You need to learn a lot of things to avoid being seen, first know that you are a brown grasshopper and you should never sit on ... ”. 

Even before the grasshopper can finish its reply a frog sprang and carried away the young brown grasshopper which was sitting on the green grass.

Shamelessly Selfish. Who.

A crow, lazy and cunning, was building its nest, found it lazy to gather dry leaves and twigs from here and there to build its nest. As it flew around it saw an eagle's nest with lots of dry grass and twigs under the eggs, and the eagle absent from its nest. The sight of so many dry leaves in one place, tempted the crow to steal them from the nest. Despite the inherent risk of the eagle returning any moment, the crow flew to the nest and was about to steal all the dry leaves for itself, when the eagle arrived and settled in its nest. The eagle asked the crow what it was doing near its nest. The crow taken aback by the sudden arrival of the eagle, quickly made-up a story and said, “I was looking after your nest as it was unguarded"

"Why" asked the eagle.

The crow said, " I was building my own nest nearby, and happened to see your eggs unguarded in the nest and thought i should look after it till your return." The unsuspecting eagle took the crow's words at face value and picked a few dry leaves from its own nest and gave it to the crow as a sign of gratitude. As the crow took the few leaves and flew to its place it murmured "only a few leaves?, must be a shamelessly selfish eagle."

The Owl's First Fish

Resting on the river bed the tortoise was almost sleepy, when it saw an owl fall into the river from the sky.The owl was fully drenched and looked disappointed. As the owl walked out of the water, the tortoise asked what it was doing in the river . The owl said it was eager to learn fishing and had asked a kingfisher about how it went about catching fish, and the owl was only trying to imitate the actions of the kingfisher, when it fell into the river. The tortoise laughed at the owl, and said, no owl can imitate the kingfisher to catch fish, as it had better flight and eyesight, and suggested the owl to fish in its own unique way - using its sense of touch and sound. 

The owl thought long on what the tortoise had said and hit upon a new idea. The owl which was good at hunting rats frogs and insects, caught a frog, holding it firmly between its claw, flew and settled in a clam and shallow part of the river. The owl waited for the fish to come and pull the dead frog from its claws, and when it sensed the frog being pulled and the flutter it created on the water surface , the owl immediately plucked the fish from the water with its beak and - TA-DAA, the owl flew away with its first fish.

On Which Side Is The Grass Greener ?

A deer lost its way and happened to stray into a village. As it wandered around looking for a way back into the forest it saw some pumpkins in a farm. The deer had never seen a pumpkin before in the forest and was curious to know what it was. It hesitatingly tasted a pumpkin and found it to be very tasty. It roamed around further and entered a banana farm. The deer had never seen a banana before, and as it ate one, it liked its sweet taste. It roamed around further and saw a domesticated cow eating a banana under a tree. The deer thought the cow was very lucky, that it gets to eat such tasty food regularly.

The cow which saw the deer roaming around the farm thought the deer must be very lucky to able to move around freely at will rather than being tied to a pole.

Creditless Find

An ant after locating two food sources, was on its way back to its colony when it met an another ant from a different colony. The other ant asked if it knew of any food source nearby, as it was unsuccessful in locating one for a long time. While it was normal for ants to share information on food, this ant wanted to take credit for locating the food rather than share information with others, hence replied in the negative.

On its way back to the colony, the ant saw members of his colony coming from the opposite direction and the head of the group asked the ant to join them in retrieving food which was located by another member of the colony. The ant obliged and joined the group. On reaching the destination the ant realised that the food it was supposed to retrieve was one of its find. Disappointed that it couldn't take credit for locating the food source, the ant informed its head about its second find. The head of the colony was happy to hear about the ant`s find, hence it organised some members of the group and along with the ant set out for the food source.

On reaching the food source, the ant was again disappointed, as ants from a different colony were already at work taking the food to their colony. The ant was extremely disappointed that it couldn't take credit for either of its find.

The fox of foxes

The fox was hunting for rabbits in that part of the forest where bushes were abundant and trees scarce , its hunt which started in the morning ended mid day with a large full grown rabbit . It then put the rabbit on a rock and began to prepare the rabbit by tearing away the skin from flesh . When it finally began to eat. A much larger fox darted at the fox and tried to grab the meat. The two foxes fought for a long time, however no one emerged victorious and claimed the meat for them selves. The first fox them proposed a contest. It pointed towards a tree at the far end and said that the two foxes run simultaneously to the tree and the one who makes it back first would get the rabbits meat. The second fox which was larger than the other thought it could easily win the race and agreed to the challenge. As the race began, the second fox was way ahead of the first one.

Midway, suddenly, the trailing fox stopped and ran in the opposite direction towards the rabbit meat, while the other fox was still running towards the tree on the horizon.