The Wonders of the Jungle, Book One

There are three or four kinds of buffaloes that live in different countries. The kind that lives in America you may have already heard about. I am sorry to say that hunters have...

The _camel_ has very little to do with the kind of jungle I have been telling you about; but he has much to do with the _desert_. A desert is another kind of wild place. As I to...

But you must remember this: _hardly any bear lives in the tropics_; that means countries where the sun is almost overhead all the months of the year, so that it is very hot all...

Now I shall tell you how a little elephant learns all the tricks of the jungle from its Mamma and Papa. By the tricks of the jungle I mean all the things that an animal has to l...

In a village there were many tame buffaloes, and among them thirty bull buffaloes. The little boys of the village took charge of them every day. The smartest boy among them was...

The buffalo has many relatives among other animals which also have _horns_. In fact, all animals that have horns are some relation to each other--first cousin, second cousin, th...

Of course, birds are not exactly animals of the kind that I have been telling you about, as they have only two legs, instead of four. But they have two wings, which are more use...

Hush! Here come all the animals! The _buffaloes_, the _blue deer_, the _red deer_, the _wild pigs_, the _hyenas_, the _wolves_, the _red dogs_, and many others. Watch and see ho...

Salar and his father were going through the jungle, feeding from tree to tree, and from bush to bush. One day they saw a little clear space and in the middle of it a banana tree...

My dear, I shall tell you all about the wonders of the jungle. You have seen many animals in the zoo or in a circus--elephants, bears, lions, tigers, leopards, and many others....

You have learned by this time that _every animal has some special gift_, that is, he can do one thing better than most other animals. The deer and the antelope have their specia...

I have just told you that, after drinking, the elephants jump into the water and have a bath and a swim. That is, all the grown-up elephants do that, while the little ones stay...

Buffaloes do not always remain wild and wander about in the jungle. Men need buffaloes. Farmers want to use them for plowing the ground, in the same way that farmers in America...

Now I shall tell you a story about a camel and a thief. It is a true story, and happened many, many years ago. The story shows what we can learn by watching the animals.

One of the great thinkers of the world has said that all the sciences are embodied in natural history. Hence natural history should be taught to a child from an early age.

Now I am going to tell you something funny about the bear. You have seen lots of wild animals in the zoo, and you may sometimes have wondered how these animals were caught. In a...

Many years ago a sea captain returned to his home in the north of Scotland, after sailing the sea for a long time. He brought with him a parrot. The parrot had lived in South Am...