Where you ever interested in the real story behind the zebras stripes or the cheetahs´ tearmarks? Did you ever wonder why aardvark wanders at night or warthog sleeps in aardvark holes?
During my Field Guide course, I learned a lot but especially loved the traditional stories of plants or animals and I would like to share them with those of you, that may like them as well.
The first zebra
How the zebra got its stripes
Why giraffe and oxpeckers are good friends
How the cheetah got its tearmarks
Why the warthog has warts
Why the hippo lives in water but does not eat fish
Why the warthog goes on his knees
Why the lion roars
Story of the lion and the little jackal
When lion could fly
Hippo, the lazy one
When hippo was hairy
Why jackal has a black back
Praise song to the waterbuck
Waterbuck – The carrier of pain
How the waterbuck got its white ring
The day baboon outwitted leopard
Why old baboon has that kink in his tail
Why aardvark lives underground
The eland and the sund god
Eland – Animal of myth
Why lion hunt buffalo
Why mongoose kill snakes
Why dung beetle is so strong
The ugly wildebeest
How the wildebeest saved the animals
Why the Rhino is bad tempered
Why rhino is grey
African beliefs about the Rhino
The real myth of the rhino
Why elephant has a trunk
Elephant, The God
How elephant got its tusks
The giraffe and the stars
Giraffe, the seer
Springbok, ray of sun
Why the hyena limps
Hyena: The cleanser
Hyena: The keeper of secrets
The day jackal fooled the king of beasts
How the kudu got its name
Kudu, the futility of war
Lilac-breasted roller, the bird of peace
The ostrich
African Hoopoe, the harbringer of friends
The day that tortoise folled jackal
Sininho´s World 
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