Elephant Tricks His Friends

Elephant is hungry. After some exploring, he discovers a field full of carrots and bananas. There’s only one problem…

There are bees between him and the delicious bananas and carrots and elephants are afraid of bees. Elephant thinks of a way to get the carrots and bananas without getting stung.

He enlists the help of his friends, Rabbit and Monkey. He doesn’t think they will be stung by bees but he conveniently forgets to tell them about the bees anyway.

When Elephant’s plan goes wrong and his friends realize he knew about the bees, they decide to teach him a lesson about honesty.

 

This story was inspired by the Elephants and Bees project in Kenya where farmers protect their crops by using bees to keep elephants away from their land. As a result, farmers now have an additional source of income from the honey produced by the bees.