Hello and welcome to Story Noorie.

You're listening to Jana and I'm back with a fun jungle story.

Like everyone else, the animals in the jungle celebrate the new year.

As the monkey loves to say,

Out with the old and in with the new.

At this time, every animal makes a resolution.

For example, the skunk promises not to be so smelly.

And the owl promises not to keep everyone awake all night with his

twit-do-woo's. And the monkey promises to turn over a new banana skin and not play tricks anymore.

And does he manage to keep his promise for long? Well, we shall see.

Now the bear is one of those animals who likes to hibernate in the winter.

This means that he's often asleep in his cave around this time of year.

Annoying his neighbour the Tigris with his loud snores.

But the bear does not like to miss out on the New Year fun,

so he asked the parrots and pea-fowls to wake him up on New Year's Eve by screeching.

The birds are loud, and I mean, loud.

So is to annoy the tigris even more in the bear's snoring.

Last year, just as the bear was stretching and yawning, the animals were discussing which party game to play next.

The elephant suggested coconut roll to see who could push a coconut along the ground furthest and fastest, just using their nose.

The tortoise wanted a game to see who could keep still the longest.

And the crocodile suggested a swimming race.

But nobody took up that challenge.

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