THINGS TO THINK ABOUT

Why were all of the animals afraid of the rhinoceros?

How could the little hyenas hunt the big-nosed rhinoceros?

What could the Tree-dwellers learn by watching the wild animals hunt?

How the Hyenas Hunted

One day Bodo and One-Ear climbed a fir tree near the edge of a cliff.

They were watching a big-nosed rhinoceros.

It had just rooted up an oak tree with its twin-tusked snout.

Now it was tearing the trunk into strips as we tear a stalk of celery.

The boys watched it grinding the wood with its great teeth.