Gray Tail is a little language genius, capable of mimicking other birds' calls.
When birds of prey that eat small birds get close, Gray Tail mimics other birds' calls to alert them, protecting birds that don't compete with it. It seems Gray Tail is quite kind-hearted after all.
Xu Ying squatted down and asked the mongooses, "Gray Tail has been cooperating with you for so long, but only recently started giving false alarms. Don't you find it strange?"
The angry mongooses paused and looked at each other. It seemed to make sense.
[Even so, it shouldn't tease us like that, making us uneasy whenever we're digging for food.]
[Right, we can't tell if the warning is real or not, but once we hear it we have to run; if it's true, our lives could be in danger.]
This is very much like the story of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf." Humans would have been quite upset if they were teased like this.
