We think over in Cambodia, where I share two folktales. 

We learn how a monkey's understanding of geology saves his life in "The Female Crocodile Who Wanted to Eat the Monkey's Heart", modified from https://aseanfolktales.wordpress.com/2015/12/06/the-female-crocodile-who-wanted-to-eat-the-monkeys-heart/ 

In the second story modified from the  "The Shepherd's Soup" from Tell Me a Story Collection  by Amy Friedman and Meredith Johnson, we see the heroic struggles of a shepherd to find his true love.