When Hippo was hairy and other tales from Africa /

Thirty-six animal folktales from all parts of Africa, with factual information about each animal following the stories.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Greaves, Nick, 1955-
Other Authors: Clement, Rod (Illustrator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Barron's, 1988.
Edition:1st ed. for U.S. and Canada.
Subjects:

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505 1 |a Stories: Why does the lion roar? (Batonka) -- Why does the lion not eat fruit? (Hambakushu) -- Dreadful crime of Kadima the hare (Hambakushu) -- Why the leopard hides his food up a tree (Ndebele) -- How cheetah got his speed (Bushman) -- Why the cheeks of the cheetah are stained with tears (Zulu) -- Revenge of the wild dog (Ndebele) -- Greedy hyena (Shona) -- Tree-climbing jackal (Swaziland) -- How jackal got his markings (Hottentot) -- Day jackal fooled the king of beasts (Zulu) -- Elephant learns some manners (Shona) -- Elephant and the rain (Bushman) -- Why Rhino scatters his dung (Batonka) -- The lost quill (Ndebele) -- No fish for the hippo (Bushman) -- 
505 0 |a When Hippo was hairy (Ndebele) -- Days of the hunting buffalo (Bushman) -- Day baboon outwitted leopard (Zulu) -- Why giraffe and the oxpecker are good friends (Bushman) -- Why the giraffe has a long neck (East Africa) -- Giraffe in the sky (Bushman) -- Why waterbuck helped crocodile (Makushu, from the Okavango) -- How the waterbuck got its white circle -- The first zebra (From the Angoni of Central Africa) -- How the zebra got his stripes (Zulu) -- How Tsessebe got his peculiar horns (Bushman) -- Why the wart hog goes about on his knees (Zulu) -- Why wart hog is so ugly (East Africa) -- The race that was rigged (Swazi) -- Tug-of-war (Ndebele) -- Why the dassie has no tail (Xhosa) -- Foolishness of the ostrich (Bushman) -- Why ostrich has a long neck (Sesotho) -- Ostrich and her chicks (Masai) -- Living stones (Swazi) 
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