"Sheri S. Tepper - The Companions" - читать интересную книгу автора (Tepper Sherri)

dutiful and diligent, man's friend, dog.



horrible hyenas, hairy noses quivering;

wildly running wildebeests, sometimes called the gnu,

laugh-provoking lemurs, loitering on tree limbs,

melancholy mandrill with his bottom painted blue



overbearing ostrich, fluttering his feathers

boulder-bounding ibex, helmed like a knight

curve-backed camel, king of the desert

prickly, stickly porcupine no animal will bite



big brown bruin bear, walking as a man does

toucan with a great tall trumpet for a nose

bald-headed vultures, vittling on vipers

(vultures will eat anything as everybody knows)



mad male orangutan, face like a soup bowl
curious xenopus, peculiarly made

quagga, quail, and quetzal, quaint concatenation.

solitary tiger, strolling in the shade



loudmouthed jackass, braying jeremiads;

bald-faced uakaris, kinky kinkajou;

high hairy travelers, yaks upon the mountain;