The breeze died and the jungle creatures were hushed in the afternoon hea.

"There's just us and the jungle creatures," added the other old crone.

He said: "Tigers are thought of as jungle creatures and there is pressure on their habitats from all sides.

Their eyes glowered like those of jungle creatures; and each of them held an enormous knife, from which the point had been broken.

Even the apparently eternal chittering of the jungle creatures was hushed.

And then he thought: I'm a jungle creature after all.

What he saw sent a cold chill through his giant frame, for the enemy was the most hated and loathed of all the jungle creatures.

For some, the dancers looked like jungle creatures.

If the crops here were edible, they would only serve to feed the jungle creatures.