"A wolf." "When he comes across the trail of the female, he starts to howl." "There are several kinds of wolf's howl." "Defiant howl, lonely howl, and a love song." "This is a love song." "In winter, wolves come down from mountains and gather into packs." "In that way they can find prey more easily." "Many animals are aware of that danger, and therefore keep their guard." "As a matter of fact, the real danger comes from humans only." "Unlike the world of men which always expands... there is another world." "T H E V A N I S H I N G W O R L D" "The world of wild animals, whose number decreases on every continent... and especially in Europe." "We will reveal to you only a part of fauna of Yugoslavia, that has still kept its original shape." "Wolves usually go hunting in pairs." "They apply special tactics." "But the deer apply a special defense." "After almost an hour of fighting, defeated wolves withdraw." "During the winter, most animals are hiding in warm shelters." "Why is a female of the wild boar leaving her pack?" "A lynx..." "You can see him in company only when it's time of mating." "An mazingly fast animal." "Not even a flying bird can avoid the punch of its paw." "And now..." "And now it is time for making love." "We use to think that only birds make nests." "The wild boar can make one, too." "The only difference is the squaring." "The winter came suddenly." "Under the roots of a tree stump a family of polecats came out to breathe some air." "Quite an unusual date:" "a fox and a wolf." "At this time of year they both feel an urge for love." "The young wolf tries to conquer her heart." "All males are the same." "Darwin was right when he said... that in the animal world usually ladies have the right to choose." "Near the nest of the wild boar one stork is dozing." "Her age didn't allow her to fly away to the distand and warm South." "And then happened something quite expected." "These are the first babies in the animal world this year." "The vixen has found her fox." "At the other part of the forest, wolves again." "Gathering around the beauty with the half ear missing." "Maybe this dry branch makes the perfect wedding gift." "She-wolf always chooses the strongest male." "Wolf-wedding can begin." "Even the nature makes some mistakes." "It happens, like now, that a wild boar, which has only 12 teats... gives birth to 13 striped piglets." "For the 13th piglet there is no teat." "He must then wrest it from his brothers and sisters." "We wonder which piglet is the 13th." "Of course, the one which screams loudliest." "This is that little wretch." "We shall call him Piggy." "It looks as if he knows that he's left to himself if he wants to survive." "The first steps are made near the nest, just to see the new wife of the rabit." "And to lead Mrs. Vixen to temptation." "And then quickly goes back." "In the animal world either, the worst destiny have those who are neglected." "The same case is with our Piggy." "His mother and brothers unanimously pronounced him excessive." "After two days Piggy the Wretch again dared to search the perimeter." "The play of squirrels bewitched him." "Those little inquisitive animals are unusually wise." "They can unerringly tell which nut is hollow and which is not." "They will never take a hollow one." "But animals fight with one another, and in this they are most similar to men." "But it seems that they respect the rules of fair play much more than humans." "Otherwise, how could we explain this kindness of a dangerous lynx to Piggy?" "Simply, it's February, a month of love for all cats." "The wild tom-cat howls for days." "He's interested only in females." "It's been enough for today." "It is time to go back home." "His mother is already pushing him away from the nest." "The spring has come a bit earlier." "Hungry birds are beginning to eat more regularly." "After two weeks, the mother with piglets is moving away." "No-one has figured out yet the problem of birds migrations." "During cold days in the fall they fly to South, but why don't they stay there?" "Do you remember the winter pack of wolves?" "In the spring they are always worn out like this." "A wolf can weigh up to 150 pounds, but during the summer." "He is capable of eating 25 pounds of meat at once." "As soon as it gets warmer, the pack disperses." "And always like this." "They become agressive and offend one another a lot." "She-wolves go away to find some lair and give birth to their babies alone." "Maybe they will gather again next winter." "Piggy's family arrived at the end of the forest." "It has been a place where all mothers bring their children to drink." "Two, three... six, seven..." "nine... eleven, twelve!" "Thirteen, counts a dormouse." "Is that possible, an old hampster wonders." "Almost by command, the others arrive too." "Twelve piglets and the small Wretched gather around their mother." "And on the right, three piglets on 12 teats." "In front of them, only two favourites." "And she... thirteen!" "And they have already learnt to play leapfrog!" "Only Piggy feels like nothing." "The new school year for little pigs has just begun!" "Up there, above their heads, wooing and wedding of cormorant has begun." "Females make nests and with their wings call the males to join them." "And these dandies are playing hard to get!" "Who knows for how long this female calls the male." "First she picked only the handsome, but now she waves to every one of them." "Luckily, the male hasn't noticed this blunder of hers." "There!" "Her neighbour hasn't even called him, and he came right to her!" "She fails and fails, and behind her... they're making love." "Obviously, she did this on purpose." "Our desperate spinster decides to change the technique of seduction." "And the day passed by..." "If we can judge the day by the morning, then our bride has no chance at all." "It seems that even Darwin can make a mistake." "When it comes to cormorants, the gentlemen have right to choose." "Downstairs, we see a collective breakfast." "Ubelieveable!" "As soon as one mother calls her piglets, all other mothers do the same." "But, what's the use?" "Piggy the Wretch is still the excess." "He is tormented by hunger." "If he doesn't do anything, he'll die." "Other piglets have stuffed themselves and begun playing." "Let us see how Piggy the Wretch tries to beg his mother for some milk." "But the heart of his mother's seems to be made of stone." "From time to time he goes to the river bank to find some snail or a worm... and drink water instead of milk." "Let us see how cormorants deal with the problem of hunger." "He is so great diver that he can allow himself even to make a selection." "He's not interested in a salamander who scares his enemies with his spots." "He dives hungry, and goes to the surface satiated." "The only problem is to fly again." "He'll be able to fly not until he dries his porous wings." "Hunger that Piggy the Wretch had to satisfy, made him go farther and farther from his family." "The destiny chose a most unusual life for a wild boar's piglet." "Besides of the food, he was deprived of love and tenderness, too." "Even the swans who were expecting babies could not understand that." "Here and there..." "And straight to a wolf." "No-one will ever find out why the big wolf did not eat the small piglet." "Maybe he wasn't hungry." "And maybe the fat badger, ten times heavier than Piggy, diverted his attention." "Anyway, the little Wretch saved his head, and the wolf lost his prey." "And the badger is already sleeping in his deluxe flat." "A stag." "Whenever he wants, he can stab any stag with his voluptuous antlers." "Obviously, he only makes fun of Piggy." "The day passed, and Piggy the Wretch couldn't make friends with any animal." "Mouflons seem to be much more friendlier." "He cannot be such a wretch and fail to make friends even with this baby mouflon which was born some half an hour ago!" "He's still got his umbilical cord hanging around." "However, it is not easy." "The elder female mouflons threaten him." "Piggy is determined:" "he'll not retreat any more." "If he survived meeting the wolf and deer, what could these wild sheep ever do to him?" "A real boxing guard!" "He's not a chicken!" "But, who would expect this?" "The rule is: no animal can escape the world it belongs to." "That's why the instict draw Piggy back to his family." "If he must be beaten up, then he'd better be beaten up by his own." "He found his mother in the pack." "She welcomed him really "warmly"." "Piggy's brothers and sisters are lying around gorged on milk." "They wait for their mother to wash them and scratch them with her rough tongue." "But no-one ever scratched Piggy." "Funny how we can recognize human characteristics in animal behaviour:" "love, hatred, pity." "A mother to all of them, only a stepmother to Piggy." "He finally realized that he is not wanted here." "A female badger is so tender with her baby." "She'll take care of him for months, and then she'll leave him in another forest, and force him to find his way around alone." "That is the law of nature." "Every animal species has its own month for love." "In order to survive, one must eat." "Even the roots, if nothing else is on the menu." "Bad experience from the past taught Piggy to avoid every animal." "This is one happy family." "The wise squirrel remembered him since the winter." "However, this is not a company for him." "Where all those frogs came from?" "They are in hurry, they have a date." "When they fall in love, they don't blush." "Their cheeks turn blue then." "Blueness lasts for day or two, as long as love, and then, they break up." "But first a female lays eggs in water, and a male immediately fertilizes them." "Sometimes their love ends tragically." "Who told snakes to come here on the very day for frogs' love?" "However, they are here." "It is true that a snake hypnotize a frog." "Watch out." "This is a rare scene." "If an animal species has many natural enemies, it will be more numerous." "There's a lot of sense in the folk's simile:" ""He strangles him as a snake strangles a frog!"" "This rare scene with the snake and the frog was watched by an eagle too." "His sight is several times better than human's." "While he is diving, in a split of a second he can adapt the focus." "Grunting of the small Piggy drew the attention of a fox." "He's never gone this far." "It was getting darker, and he still hasn't found his way home." "He would gladly give everything just to be with his family again." "He has no choice." "He prepared his bed near a tree stump." "It'll be what must be." "For the first time he will spend a night alone." "Funny." "We use to think that bats are blind, but they're not." "Piggy would sleep more if a woodpecker didn't wake him up." "Obviously he is dedicated to digging a worm out." "A jackdaw has just finished its morning dressing up... while a hedgehog is coming back from his night cruising." "Piggy immediately got busy." "Since he was born, he was having a problem: hunger." "A cricket is never chirping in vain." "But, you'll be wrong if you think that a mother carries her baby on her back." "The jackdaw gets really irritated by chirping." "Crickets are always on the menu, and she fails to find out who is singing out there." "Actually, only the small male is singing, and females are totally mute." "Male crickets are so lucky!" "Still nothing." "And the female can carry the male like this for days." "Baby foxes thought that their mother is bringing them food." "And Piggy still fails to satisfy his hunger." "In his search for the roots, he scares a family of forest mice." "The wind carries Piggy's smell to a small fawn hidden in the grass by its parents." "The fawn is running to meet him." "The traffic is heavy." "Soon there will be no small pheasants." "The fawn and the piglet." "What a lovely couple!" "For the first time in his life someone approached him and didn't punch him!" "But all the parents are the same." "For two days he hasn't seen his family." "He is convinces that they miss him." "Piggy the Wretch doesn't know where the North is, and forgot the way to kindergarden." "But more or less, all animals have a sense for directions." "Why does this fox have it in for him?" "Piggy is a real wretch." "He has left such a clear trail... that the fox could easily follow him." "This time he escaped in the last moment." "He arrived right at lunch." "The piglets were preoccupied with suckling." "He tenderly greeted his mother." "But the law of nature is merciless." "The mother has 12 teats and 12 piglets." "She doesn't need the thirteenth." "This time Piggy seems to decide to leave for good." "Sadly did he announce his unalterable decision." "His sadness touched only this little sister of his, who saw him off." "These scars are the only memory he has." "Snails." "Let us examine them a little." "So far no-one has figured out how a snail builds its house." "And it is building it according to the law of logarithm spiral." "The curve of the snail's house... cannot be calculated by any algebraic equation." "What we know is that snails are bipolar, or hermaphrodite." "All snails have so-called arrows of Amor, which they stick into each other's body in the sexual climax." "After a few weeks, baby snails are born." "In his search for food, Piggy the Wretch came to the unknown part of the forest." "He has never met a bear before." "And to make things more dangerous, this is a nervous she-bear with disobedient cubs." "The cubs wouldn't come out of the water until they freeze to death." "They look like living skeins of wool, with two small shiny eyes." "Stocky and sluggish, bears are real masters of sneaking through the woods." "Just look at these large paws of theirs." "They always step at the right spot, not breaking even a dry brench!" "And the cubs... quite the opposite." "When a bear is surprised, he'll rear." "Our Wretch is in danger, for bears do not want guests on their teritory." "That is why this place is named:" "The Forest of Bears." "When she's assured that there's no danger, the she-bear takes her cubs to dinner." "What do bears eat?" "Everything!" "But they especially like honey." "When the sun sets, bears are summoning to have fun during the night." "As usual, the cubs pay the visit to their candy shop." "And the she-bear?" "They say that bears have a strange custom:" "they stand near a tree, they scratch it and lick it, leaving a secret message on it." "Unbelievable!" "It seems that every family has its own Wretch." "Look, the bees won't allow this cub to come closer." "And his brother takes honeycombs with no problem." "A child's envy." "Piggy would like some sweets, too." "But, the brothers made peace for a moment, and don't need the third party." "The bees still make difference between the cubs." "How do they know which cub is a wretch when they are identical?" "This is the second night he will spend alone." "He's hungry and frightened in the middle of the Forest of Bears." "When you're lucky, you're lucky." "Not a single bee has stung him!" "The she-bear is still writing a love letter on the bulletin board." "There is only one spot where a bee can sting a bear." "And that is their snout." "And only this small puddle can ease their pains." "Piggy sleeps as if being dead." "Near the hollow tree the cub Lucky enjoys the honey the whole night... without a single sting." "The stars are fading, which is a sign for bears to withdraw to their lairs." "Piggy remembered where the candy shop is." "But he paid the price, too." "Only the hedgehog could use the situation." "After everything he's been through, Piggy felt the need to have a company." "It is said that polecats use a terrible smell which can reach 3 yards." "If it reaches the eyes, it could blind." "Polecats usually spend their whole life without ever using it." "Simply, he doesn't like the company." "Loneliness can be really hard." "So far, everyone avoided him except for the gentle fawn and the small squirrel." "Piggy never saw his father, and he could not forget the cruelty of his mother." "Everyone is more happy than him." "Even these baby hedgehogs." "Their mother is lucky because they do not come to this world with spines." "They get them not until two days after birth." "When Piggy almost broke his word and decided to go back home, he smelled... and then saw the fawn!" "He's absolutely sure:" "that is her." "He won't let Bambi to move away, for he's afraid that he'll be alone again." "Either the nature made a mistake on purpose and accepted an individual, or the small Wretch finally got a little luck." "Animals can always feel a premonition of danger." "Hadn't the parents been nearby, the fox would've definitely try." "Instead, she'd have to find some helpless fledgling in reed." "How many times have we heard:" "He's planting like a cuckoo its egg?" "Now we have the opportunity to see it for the first time." "No bird likes a cuckoo." "Maybe because she looks like a sparrow hawk, and maybe because she plants eggs" "It's enough for a warbler to leave her nest for just a couple of second... and the cuckoo will plant her egg in less than a half of minute." "This is the moment of action." "Just a second more..." "Here is it." "A cuckoo will throw out one egg from the nest in order to lay her own." "But this time it is not necessary, for the warbler cannot count." "Two weeks later in the nest of the warbler an imposter hatched." "A giant among small fledglings." "Who can feed it?" "It's said that the cuckoo would visit its chicken and throw out other fledglings, so that all food could go to her heir." "However, that's not true." "The trick with the egg wouldn't be successful... if the newborn cuckoo didn't show the same cleverness as its mother." "As if it had been born a criminal!" "What we see now the newborn cuckoo could not learn from anyone." "That is its innate characteristic." "It pushes its stepbrothers to the edge of the nest, and throws them out." "These fledglings are doomed to die now." "The diligent warbler will continue to feed the murderer of her children." "During one day, she will put hundreds of insects in that always open beak." "The real mother cuckoo... wandering around the forest searching for males... will pay a short visit to the nest where she planted her egg, just to make sure everything is fine." "A cuckoo is one of the rare species of birds that have an illegitimate life." "However, a cuckoo is very useful." "Only a cuckoo dares to eat gypsy moths, dangerous caterpillars that destroy whole forests." "Days have come and passed by." "Piggy never again wished to get back to his family." "The life thaught him to eat everything." "With Bambi and doe he found tenderness and love he had been deprived of." "A real miracle happened!" "A totally different animal species accepted another species." "A couple as happy as this one cannot be seen in any forest on earth!" "Large-headed wolf cubs..." "Fruit of the winter love." "Little friends decided to have a picnic in the Forest of Bears." "Piggy immediately told his sweet little secret to Bambi." "And the candy shop is open 24 hours a day." "Of course, certain protest has been filed." "A fawn eating honey?" "!" "Just a little quarrel between husband and wife." "This blow would kill a man." "For many days the scorching sun has been blazing down." "Suddenly, all birds ceased their song." "The insects started chirping too soon." "Animals have a strange foreboding." "Everyone rushes to their lairs." "Piggy and Bambi are with the doe." "And then silence." "Even the crickets fell silent." "Everything happened fast." "At dawn, fierce wind rose." "It seems that the lake water is smoking." "Suddenly all animals began to cluster together." "The day turned to dark." "It deceived the bats, so they left their hollow trees.." "thinking it was a night." "They are the only flying mammals." "In such situations, deer would run in trails they are already familiar with." "Voices of terrified animals are resounding." "For the two of them, this is the first trial." "Who is in a worse position?" "The heron or her babies?" "Actually, the mice are always to suffer first." "The bear cubs are thinking only about the honey." "And crickets think only about love." "The drama reaches its climax for the mice." "The situation is different at the kindergarden." "Wild boars are carefree, but at the last moment they would lose their heads and run away alone in panic." "The babies cannot catch up." "The doe cannot wait for her buck any more." "In order to save her fawn, she went pretty far." "Maybe it is not the first for her to experience this." "But for Bambi and the small Wretch it certainly is." "The two of them are the only animals that enjoy the rain and this flood." "But, Piggy is in a worse position." "He has short legs, and his stomach is in the water." "Where did he get this idea?" "Strong deer have their own tactics." "They go from one sandbank to another, resting a little on them, and eating." "Running for their lives lasts the whole day." "Weird." "The rain has stopped, but the water continues to rise." "In front of them there is the highest sandbank." "It seems that the doe had already visited it in the past." "She brought them here at the last moment." "Only the buck is missing." "What happened to him?" "The doe is asking the same question, looking at the direction he went to." "The water is rising even more." "The sandbank is now a real island of refugees." "There were more sandbanks around here, but the water gradually overcame them." "Deer have come and gone." "No-one is now sure which place is the safest." "It is said that a fox doesn't even like to see water, except when it's thirsty." "But, just look at it now, steering with her tail!" "On the island, the family is still waiting for their buck." "He found himself on the safe bank where rain and water cannot harm him." "When it seemed the worst was gone, he headed for the flooded area to find them." "He knows the surroundings and is able to help them." "However, in the upper regions the rivers flooded... and the water overcame him." "Those who started running to safety too late, had almost no chance at all." "Especially the youngs and the old animals." "The doe and her buck obviously have a telepathic connection." "It is more and more difficult for him to orient." "Water washed away all smells and signs the doe had left for him." "The wild boar which in normal situation dies for her babies... now leaves them behind." "The scientists claim that the main difference between men and animals... is the fact that men are able to use tools." "And this little baby fox either is an exception to the rule, or refutes the rule." "Deer are facing the trouble differently." "They are dignified." "Even when they swim they take care not to break their file." "The distance between the wild boars and their babies is increasing." "It seems that the buck was going in circles." "He's getting tired." "The ascent and underwater obstacles have exhausted him." "He's been in the water for two days now." "He's losing strength." "The lagging piglets try to catch up with their mother, but with no success." "And she has just reached the bank." "The number of piglets is decreasing." "Water currents refuse to carry the stump towards the bank." "And on the island, the doe is still waiting at the same spot for one who isn't coming." "The sun finally broke through." "The animals on the island are getting calmer now." "As soon as the water withdraws, the she-badger will abandon her baby." "Look at this fox!" "Her fur gives her away." "Her teeth are worn-out." "Maybe the wild boar took pity on her because of that." "Or is it because no-one attacks anyone on this island?" "Only the doe is still restless." "She won't move from her spot." "Instead of her buck, she can only see wasteland covered with water." "Nature can in many ways teach the creatures that they are mortal." "For two days now the buck has been entangled in branches." "Nothing can save him now." "He's been entangled here, so near his goal... so close to his family." "It was either a presentiment or an instict... for this is the first time since her arrival at the island that the doe left her guard post" "He hasn't tried this yet." "The wolf cubs with their mother also saved themselves." "And the shrew that looks like an innocent mouse, too." "And a praying mantis, one of the most bloodthirsty creature in the world." "The shrew also; it will devour its own babies unless they flee on time." "The praying mantis devours its mate, but not until he impregnates her." "One more day has passed by, then the second." "And on the third day... the doe's legs gave out." "For the first time, the doe lay down on the ground." "The doe's eyes have completely lost their shine." "The death of an animal is so similar with human death." "The sky is mourning too." "The life goes on." "How have these lovers found themselves on the island?" "And a jackdaw, their oppresor?" "It still fails to find out who is singing in the grass." "Unlike the fawn, the piglet needs other spice as well." "A few days passed." "The water withdrew so much that the smaller sandbanks began to join." "It's true that foxes hate water." "She wants to reach the bank, but not to get wet." "Deer were the first to leave." "Bambi and Piggy won't separate from the doe." "Small puddles became a paradise for all kinds of birds." "All the fawn can see is the ugly and frightening wasteland." "When they get tired, the swan babies get on their mother like on a train." "These are the swans that scared Piggy." "And now they're calling him to follow them." "Only Bambi and Piggy have left;" "the last inhabitants of the island." "They gaze at the birds and forest, for there is a life there." "Everyone has left there." "Few animals in nature die of old age." "It either becomes a prey, or dies of sickness or in a disaster." "This is the proof: mostly the youngs died, as well as older animals." "Maybe this is a Piggy's brother or sister?" "The buck died long time ago." "His eyes remained open, as if he had wanted to see the fawn one more time." "But the fawn didn't recognize him for the water washed away all the smells." "Maybe Piggy recognized him?" "Although we cannot look at the animal psyche... nothing can stop us from attributing human characteristics to them." "It is impossible not to compare an act of an animal to an act of a man." "Otherwise, how would we describe it?" "The great scientist Descartes was wrong when he said that animals are machines." "The bank is in front of them, as well as the forest full of life." "The sun returned back to greet the chosen ones." "A life again... everywhere!" "You remember those two male snails?" "Here they are again;" "but now they're mothers." "When it seemed that everyone is happy again... a sad squeak resounded through the forest." "Piggy's mother is alone, tormented with memories of her drowned children." "This is a call for Piggy to go back to his mother." "For the first time he hears his mother calling him so kindly." "All mother's love now belongs to the thirteenth piglet." "Piggy was hesitating." "Then he heard the call from behind, and ran towards Bambi." "And behind him... the wild boar stood looking at her only child... disappearing in the forest with the fawn." "For a long time afterwards, a sad cry echoed... and a call of Piggy's mother resounded the forest." "Subbed and translated by:" "NinaNish" "T H E E N D"