The fox when it sees a flock of herons or magpies or birds of that kind, suddenly flings himself on the ground with his mouth open to look as he were dead; and these birds want to peck at his tongue, and he bites off their heads.
Wolves don’t socialize with humans. You guys tend to freak out when you learn what we are. Not to mention, your females are rather frail. I don’t like having to hold back for fear of bruising or killing my partner when I mate. (Vane) And people think I speak my mind. Jeez. You will just say anything, won’t you? (Sunshine)
The rat was merely trying to sleep. Believe me, pup, if I had wanted to kill you we wouldn’t be having this conversation,” said Ripred.
...animals don't escape from somewhere but from something
I don’t know why we do it. But sometimes we just swim straight for the net.
What happened to your foot?" "I had a little disagreement with an eagle --stupid birds, eagles. He couldn't tell the difference between a hawk and a pigeon. I had to educate him. He bit me while I was tearing out a sizable number of his wing feathers." "Uncle," Polgara said reproachfully. "He started it.
A young wolfhound must meet his first wolf someday, but if the wolf sees him as a puppy, if he acts the puppy, the wolf will surely kill him. The wolfhound must be a wolfhound in the wolf's eyes even more than in his own, if he is to survive.
I wanted a shark that's big enough to eat you, and in a large enough amount of liquid so that you could imagine you were in there with it.
If I went in the cage, I was going to end up eaten alive. That was actually one of my top five ways not to die.
The wild boar is often held by a small dog. [Lat., A cane non magno saepe tenetur aper.]
Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them.
A shoat squealing under a fence just attracts the fox, when it should be trying to run.
Bee, why are you staring at me? I am not a flower??
At what point is a wasp ever going to have a chat with a spider?
