While in the Xiongnu’s custody, Zhāng Qiān learned of the tale of Kun-mo, a king of the Wu-sun, who was fed meat and milk by these two animals while stranded in the desert. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these two animals, whose symbiotic relationship may have inspired Central Asian storytellers to depict them rearing abandoned children together in various tales. In Norse lore, Freki and Huginn are two of these animals.
ANSWER: wolves AND the crows [accept raven in place of crow; accept black bird in place of crow; prompt on bird]
[10h] In some sources, this hero is weaned by a wolf and fed by a crow as a two-year-old. Later, he defends the land of Bumba in eponymous oral epics told by the Oirat and the Kalmyks.
ANSWER: Jangar [accept the Epic of Jangar]
[10e] Evoking similarities to Altaic tales, Romulus and Remus are fed by one of these animals in place of a crow. Circe turned Picus into this type of bird, whose “ivory-billed” species may still exist according to cryptozoologists.
ANSWER: woodpecker [accept ivory-billed woodpecker]
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