For a long time a tiger lived in the taiga. The tiger thought: “There is no one stronger than me in the world. I am the strongest." He walked around like that, scaring all the animals, everyone around was afraid. Once, having caught prey, the tiger ate and rested under a tree. He hears someone calling him. A bird was sitting on a branch. The bird tells him:
- Do you really think that you are the strongest? There is something stronger than you!
The tiger immediately jumped to his feet and looked up:
- Who is stronger than me? Speak!
Bird says:
- A man is stronger than you, that’s who!
She said so and flew away. That tiger, who had never seen a man, wanted to see him. I went looking. I walked and walked and came across an elk.
-Are you human, or what? - asks the tiger.
“No,” says the elk, “the man is completely different, why are you looking for him?”
Tiger says:
- I want to look at him.
That elk says to him:
- You shouldn’t want to watch it. A person is stronger than you, he can kill.
That tiger began to laugh. I moved on. I came across a red deer.
- Are you a human or what? - asks again.
- No, I’m a red deer. Why are you looking for a person? He is stronger than you...
The tiger didn’t believe it and went on. I walked and walked. He looks - someone is standing on two legs, cutting down a tree. That tiger, hiding, began to look. Then he crept closer. The man noticed the tiger. Asks:
- What do you need?
Tiger says:
- I want to see the person.
- That's how bad your plan is! - says the man. - Don’t you know that he is stronger than you? it's dangerous to look at him.
That tiger didn’t believe it again. Then the man says:
- Okay. I'll help you. Just need to tie you to a tree, now you will see a person.
So I did. He tied the tiger tightly to a tree, went himself, took a gun, and shot the tiger right in the eye. That tiger began to roar and beg:
“Let me go, now I see that you, man, are stronger than me.”
The man let him go, saying:
- Now run into the taiga, run away and don’t get caught by a person.
Since then, animals have been afraid of humans.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru