In the Hitopadesha, a flock of pigeons is caught in a hunter’s net. The flock first abuses the pigeon whose advice led them into it. Then their king, Speckle-neck, tells them to act “at one moment and with one will, rising under the net, let us fly off with it.”
“Having pondered this advice, the Pigeons adopted it; and flew away with the net.” This is Edwin Arnold’s translation.