On the banks of the turbid Amazon, Painted Jaguar is hungry. How can Stickly-Prickly Hedgehog and Slow-and-Solid Tortoise escape him? A strange new animal that Painted Jaguar does not know appears! Collect all the titles in the series: How the Camel Got Its Hump, How the Whale Got Its Throat, How the Leopard Got Its Spots, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin, The Beginning of the Armadilloes, The Sing-Song of the Old Man Kangeroo, The Cat that Walked by Himself, The Elephant's Child.