14-08-19 After a heavy lunch, a little monkey took a nap between the branches on the top of a tall tree. Suddenly, he was awakened by a kind of desperate cry for help. Opening up his eyes, the monkey found a stout mantis tightly holding a delicate branch wit...

14-07-08 Scientists have identified the fossilized remains of an extinct giant bird that could be the biggest flying bird ever found. With an estimated 20-24-foot wingspan, the creature surpassed size estimates based on wing bones from the previous record ho...

14-06-20 Turning away from the sea we wandered miserably inland, finding as we went various herbs and fruits which we ate, feeling that we might as well live as long as possible though we had no hope of escape. Presently we saw in the far distance what seeme...

14-05-29 Meng jiu is a kind of bird that lives in the south. It always makes its delicate nest with beautiful feathers, and fastens the nest to the spikes of reeds（芦苇） . Whenever there is a big wind, the nest always falls to the ground when the reeds bre...

14-05-19 My sister, a primary school teacher, was informed by one of her pupils that a bird had built its nest in the tree outside the classroom. What kind of bird? my sister asked. I didn't see the bird, ma'am, only the nest, replied the child. Then, can yo...

14-04-29 Once upon a time, a sea bird landed in the suburbs of the capital of the state of Lu. Marquis Lu was delighted and brought this bird to the ancestral temple, and gave it wine to drink, played it music from Jiushao. In order to delight it, he also fe...

14-03-26 How does the Arctic tern (a sea bird) fly more than 80,000 miles in its roundtrip（往返） North Pole-to-South Pole migration? How does the Emperor penguin incubate（孵化） eggs for months during the Antarctic winter without eating? How does the Rufo...

14-03-10 On Fajiu Hill there grew a lot of mulberry（桑树） bushes. In the mulberry bushes lived a bird that looked like a crow, but had a colorful head, a white bill and two red claws. Its call sounded like its name: Jingwei. The bird was said to be Emperor...

14-02-28 There is a story about a cicada（蝉） in the Chinese classic, Chuang-Tzu. Once upon a time, a male cicada joyfully joined his friends in singing the most beautiful praises of happy summer. He sang and sang, completely intoxicating himself in the com...

14-02-26 Quails Meg Kearney Pliny told that migrating quails rested in such numbers on the sails of ships at night that the vessels were in danger of sinking. -- from 100 Birds and How They Got Their Names All night our ship creaks and groans under the weigh...