The Bolds

The Bolds — page 7 — fresh air and eating fresh food that we catch or pick or graze for ourselves Far better in our humble opinion Which lifestyle seems nicer to you All the animals in Africa know that the cleverest among them are the hyenas They aren’t the fastest or fiercest or let’s face it the most beautiful but they are smart and determined and work together to get what they want They are very good at scavenging too the But thing hyenas do best and

The Bolds — page 8 — which drives all the other animals crazy is they laugh In fact they’re known as laughing hyenas Long loud shrieks and cackles

The Bolds — page 9 — They can outsmart a pride of lions by running circles around them laughing and snorting and then steal their dinner in the confusion

The Bolds — page 10 — To be honest with you hyenas are not very popular among the other animals Birds sing prettily lions roar impressively but the incessant laughter of the clever hyenas gives the other animals a headache Now then There was once a large clan of hyenas living in the Masai Mara which is a huge national park in Africa And these particular hyenas laughed even more than most They lived in burrows near to a safari camp where lots of tourists came to see the animals in their natural environment Slowly these hyenas became accustomed to their strange visitors They would creep ever closer to the camp scavenging leftover food getting bolder and bolder Eventually over time they began to understand the human way of communicating they learned to understand human languages 9

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