They are revealed to be cowards when Mouse describes The Gruffalo's features to them and what his favourite foods are, making them run off in fright. Out of the three predators, despite his fear of the Gruffalo, Snake is shown to be the only truly sadistic member, as seen when he grins evilly at The Gruffalo's Child while tricking her into going to the frozen lake in an attempt to drown her.įox, Owl and Snake are very sneaky and try to trick Mouse into coming to their homes for a meal (Mouse would be the main ingredient every time), though Mouse is able to quickly figure out their intentions. Snake is shown to be sneaky and very determined to eat Mouse. When he gets frightened or startled, he fall off the branches he's sitting on and falls to the ground. Fox is the most intelligent member of the group, as he immediately recognized that the Gruffalo's Child belonged to the same species as her father, which Owl and Snake failed to realize.ĭespite his tactics to attack his prey, Owl is not very good at flying, constantly bumping into trees. He also has an allergy to dandelions, sneezing every time he gets near one. Despite that, he gets scared very easily, shown when Mouse told him that the Gruffalo's favourite food was roasted fox, and when he first saw the real Gruffalo for the first time. Mole from Don Bluth's Thumbelina, General Woundwort from the Watership Down TV series and Claudandus from Felidae, and Snake was voiced by Rob Brydon, who has also voiced various other characters in film adaptations of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's books.įox is very sly, attempting to trick Mouse into going into his underground house to feast on him.

In the film adaptation, Fox was voiced by Tom Wilkinson, Owl was voiced by the late John Hurt, who also voiced Sailor John from Thomas & Friends: Sodor's Legend of The Lost Treasure, the Horned King from Disney's The Black Cauldron Mr. When The Gruffalo is later revealed to be real, Fox, Owl and Snake get even more scared and retreat to their homes. They are a group of three predators who try to eat Mouse (the protagonist of the book), but were tricked by him after he makes up a creature named a Gruffalo, scaring them by saying a Gruffalo's favourite meals are roasted fox, owl ice cream and scrambled snake.

'He has knobbly knees and turn out toes and a poisonous wart at the end of his nose.'įox, Owl and Snake are the main antagonists of the 1999 children's book The Gruffalo, minor antagonists in it's 2004 sequel, The Gruffalo's Childand Magic Light's 20 animated film adaptations of the same names. 'But who is this creature with terrible claws and terrible teeth in his terrible jaws?'

The gruffalo