Gunja

Part 6: Gunja familiar with Jungle

Gunja further recalls her story and explains to Dr Anarki. Nurse Krisma put a note in her personal history file.

Gunja started to go around the jungle and find new places. She saw a vertical fall of the hill in which birds have made nests in the holes and small trees were hanging in the top. They would go into holes with food, feed their children, come out of holes, and have a rest on the branches of trees for some time and again flew away in the jungle in search of food. There were many sparrows: small, plump, brown-grey birds with short tails and stubby, powerful. Gunja noticed that birds were going to the same holes as private. Sometime sparrows were entering to other holes by mistake and come back again and changed the holes. Some birds were colorful. One bird was making holes on the walls. Some part of the wall was hard rocks and some soft rocks and some like mud. It was making holes with hard mud. Some birds were making holes in trees. Gunja thought that she should also make homes in appropriate place. She found a place in a cave and made arrangement for staying.

There were series of holes in a vertical wall on the hill. Sparrows were going in and coming out. They were looking like a social bird, with many species breeding in loose colonies and most species occurring in flocks during the non-breeding season. Most sparrows form large roosting aggregations in the non-breeding seasons that contain only a single species (in contrast to multi-species flocks that might gather for foraging). The sparrows are some of the few passerine birds that engage in. Sparrows will first scratch a hole in the ground with their feet, then lie in it and fling dirt or sand over their bodies with flicks of their wings. They will also bathe in water, or in dry or melting snow. Water bathing is similar to dust bathing, with the sparrow standing in shallow water and flicking water over its back with its wings, also ducking its head under the water. Both activities are social, with up to a hundred birds participating at once, and is followed by preening and sometimes group singing. Gunja observed that in some holes, one sparrow was going into adjacent holes, by mistake and changing hole quickly. That means they have dedicated holes.

One day Gunja saw a set of parrots in a tree. One parrot was unable to fly due to some problems in the wings, hence remained in the tree. Parrots which are able to fly used to bring foods from nearby areas and remained near pair most of the time. They were looking sad, but in love and waiting for time for other getting well. It took almost one week to become ready to fly. Then after, both of the pair flew together for several days in the nearby jungle in search of food. With this Gunja observed love of birds.

Gunja was observing two animals in the jungle, lions and elephants and also afraid with them. Lion was small but very energetic and active whereas elephants were giants but week. Both animals crossed each other without a care. She noticed that the lions were roaming in the jungle in single whereas elephants in groups. Lions roaming alone in the jungle were dangerous because they were mentally disturbed and felt insecure. Gunja tried to be away from both of the animals, but enjoyed the activities of both of them from the distance.

Gunja one day observed deer walking with small babies. The baby was just born and unable to walk rightly. A dog came near baby while the deer were engaged in the side for grazing. Act of dog was annoying to baby. Deer saw the scene and became angry with the dog. Deer came near dog with angry mood, but the dog ran away. Deer catches the dog and trap in between four feet. Deer continuously bit dog with feet. The dog was unable to skip and badly beaten. After sufficiently beaten, dog went out and deer came near the baby and lick on the face. Gunja noticed the love of deer for her baby and anger she showed to the enemy.

The story was opening serially. The nurse was being familiar with jungle life through the life of Gunja.

Parrots want.