The crocodile was very greedy for the bananas, which grew on the palm trees around its pool, but no matter how hard it tried, it could not manage to pick them. A generous monkey noticed this, and threw him down a bunch. The crocodile ate its fill and also left some of the bananas for wife. But the wife turned the crocodile against the monkey: "If that monkey lives on bananas, then its liver must be big and sweet," she said