It is peculiar. The fable states that the ant stores up food for the winter, and the grasshopper does not.
However, grasshoppers live about a year, while ants live two months or less.
Perhaps Aesop did not really know about grasshoppers and ants.
Why did the author chose a grasshopper and ant in La cigale et la fourni(The grasshopper and the ant)
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Ok. Yeah i wasn't sure why he would choose a grasshopper and an ant.
I suppose because he observed ants always being busy, while grasshoppers are not.
Yes. Thank you
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