She persuades the bear to break open the cage and then escape.

Unfortunately a saboteur opens their cages, playing havoc with their owners' careful breeding programme.

The chickens were cared for by the pullarius, who opened their cage and fed them pulses or a special kind of soft cake when an augury was needed.

This allowed him to develop the patience needed to devise a plan of escape, playing dead to trick the crocodiles into opening his cage and defeat them.