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Chaptt trône SOCIAL AND ARTISTIC BACKGROUIW If one wants to characterise them with a singly word that explains their efforts, one would have to create the new term of Impressionists. They are Impressionists in the sense that they render not a landscape but the impression produced by a...

Beaver damslip. ook how beavers cut down trees! They simply nibble s&S^through the trunk with their teeth. Once they've felled a tree, they cut it up into smaller pieces. The logs are used to build dams or are stored for winter food.

A rescue operation nomes are always prepared to climb a tree in an emergency, especially when a sick or wounded squirrel is trapped on a high, leafy branch. As we are so small it is quite an effort to reach the top. Even climbing a small tree is like climbing a very high mountain. When I have to...

Waiting for nightfall It is dusk. A Wood gnome is sitting patiently beside a tree enjoying the evening. He is waiting for nightfall before he sets off into the woods. He has brought along somé snacks for his trip. He has a small sack of sesame seeds, somé biseuits and an acorn flask of rose-hip...

A walk at tortoise pace rom time to time, I like to go for a quiet stroli with a tortoise. Tortoises walk very, very slowly and talk in aTather sleepy voice but they have many interesting tales to teli. They have lived on earth for thousands of years and their appearance hasn't changed very much...

ForeworcThe turbulent rivers of tropical Africa and the shimmering lakes of the Rift Valley are the haunts of the menacing Nile crocodile, a much persecuted giant rivalled in size only by the amphibious hippopotamus. But in contrast to brute strength there is beauty too-elegant antelopes grazing...