“All my hunters have failed to capture the elephant and you think you can succeed where the failed?” the king asked. The tortoise heard about this and went to the king to accept the challenge. So the king promised anyone who could capture the elephant half of his kingdom. All the hunters in the kingdom had tried but failed to capture the elephant. Once there was a king who had been trying very hard to capture the elephant for his personal collection, but that prize had proved elusive. It was a sad day for them when they lost leopard his friendship. The have become scavengers now instead, and they eat the scraps that other animals leave behind. Up into a tree it goes, high out of reach of jackals and hyenas. Leopard was true to his word – for since that day he has never left any meat for his selfish friends. Then neither of you will be able to get at it.

I shall take what is left and hang it in a tree, when I have eaten all I want. From this day on, I will make sure of it. Never again will I leave you meat when I make my kill.

“I thought you were my friends, but you are a no-good, lazy pair. So Leopard said, “hyena, please hunt for us today, for I am not well enough to do so.īut hyena, too, made an excuse:”no, I have a sore foot.”Īt this Leopard roared in anger. “Please catch some food for us, for I am not well.” But lazy Jackal said, “no, I am too weary. One day it happened that Leopard was ill, and so he could not hunt. Whenever Leopard killed an animal, he would always leave part of it for his friends so that they could have a good feed too. A long time ago there were 3 friends: the beautiful leopard, the jackal and the Hyena.

Thrill of the chase a rocky riverbed