The Frog and the Shopping Mall?

Aesop, LaFontaine and others loved to point out basic human mistakes with short fables like "The Fox and the Grapes" or "The Donkey in the Lion's Skin." They disguised their criticism of humanity in the cartoonlike animals and world in which the stories were set, only revealing their messages at the end with a one-line moral that brought their point home with a zing. How would these writers have addressed today's problems of human desire for things such as shopping malls or highways and the impact of these things on delicate ecosystems

Write a fable that includes examples of interactions between living and nonliving things in an ecosystem. Remember to use animals as the main characters. Topics might include land use, disposal of waste, or the choice to tolerate or eliminate pests. Keep it light until you get to the moral, and then bring your point home!