Actually, it was only supposed to be an animal chess game. For a long time I thought about which animals would best match the characteristics of the respective chess pieces and came to the following solution: The king, here the cheetah, sits majestically in the landscape and monitors everything that is happening. The dangerous queen, quick, sneaky and agile, who better to portray it than the cobra snake. The runner is well represented by the enduring, fast ostrich and who can jump as big as the kangaroo? The bear stands tall and strong, like a tower in front of you, who can get past that? And used in groups to constantly monitoring their surroundings, the meerkats are cute and capable farmers. Or? I then wanted to buy the board itself, but there are simply no boards that fit the animals as I imagined. So I began to design the forest board in laborious intarsia work. Yes, this one is the best for all the pretty animals.