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He had great big horns with a huge pad in the middle, just right for bumping the other animals. This is the story of how Buffalo went looking for trouble and found it!\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCross Crocodile\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLong ago on the Great African Plains, it was so dry before the rain came that all the animals were hot, and thirsty, and hungry. All, that is, except Cross Crocodile. This is the story of how Monkey tricked Crocodile into sharing his food with the other animals.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHandsome Hog\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn the Great Grassy African Plain Handsome Hog had a beautiful smooth coat and an extremely elegant tail. This is the story of how Handsome Hog lost his looks and became known as Warthog to the other animals.\u003cbr\u003eMwenye Hadithi is a pen name and means a story-teller in Swahili.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAwkward Aardvark\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn the Great Grassy African Plain Handsome Hog had a beautiful smooth coat and an extremely elegant tail. This is the story of how Handsome Hog lost his looks and became known as Warthog to the other animals.\u003cbr\u003eMwenye Hadithi is a pen name and means a story-teller in Swahili.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBaby Baboon\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLeopard is hungry, but he is also lazy. How will he catch his dinner? Leopard recruits the help of Baboon and Baby Baboon to trap Hare whom he plans to eat for his dinner. But Leopard is outwitted and Baby Baboon laughs and laughs.\u003cbr\u003eThis is the story of how Leopard came to lie in wait in the trees and why you just might hear Baby Baboon laughing and laughing.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCrafty Chameleon\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTormented every morning by leopard and bullied by crocodile, the clever little chameleon decides to play a trick on them. He manages to get the better of his two oppressors without them even knowing how he did it! This is the story of why Crafty Chameleon changes colour and hides when he hears you coming.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEnormous Elephant\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the days before the Big Rains, many of the animals looked very different. 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Hippo pleaded with the god of Everything and Everywhere to let him live in the rivers and streams.\u003cbr\u003eNgai agreed Hippo could live in the water but only if he promised not to eat the little fishes and to come out of the water at night and eat grass.\u003cbr\u003eThe story of how Hippo came to live in the river instead of on dry land.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHungry Hyena\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHungry Hyena steals Fish Eagle's dinner and sets off a chain of events which leads to the hyenas reaching for the moon ... with disastrous results.\u003cbr\u003eThis is the story of how Hungry Hyena came to slink about on the great African plain and how Fish Eagle soars in the clouds.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLaughing Giraffe\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the days long ago, Giraffe was the noisiest animal on the Great African Plain. He shouted a lot and he laughed all the time. 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