How Zebras Got Their Stripes

By: Amanda

Long, long ago there was an old zebra that had a white body. He was like all the other very whit zebras. There was a time when all the zebras had to move because there was no more grass to eat. When they were walking to find more grass and fresh leaves to eat, they found a hurt cub. The poor animal was bleeding to death. One of the zebras went to get a leaf to put over the wound, so the baby would not lose any more blood than he had already. The zebra came back and put the leaf over the cub’s wound. Then they had to carry the baby tiger to eat some grass so he would get stronger, so he could walk again.

The lion came back to get his cub, but this time he came back, he was very mad because the zebras had taken his cub. The cub tiger just wanted to play with someone because he had no one to play with. The tiger took his cub at nighttime, so he would not have to fight to get his cub back. Now he was in the time when he could just get him and run. He would not have to wake him up when he was sleeping. Then in the morning the baby was gone from the part where he was sleeping. When he was sleeping, the one zebra had woken up and the tiger took the cub where they were going to sleep the next night.

The tiger took him again. They would put him into a big mud hole and leave him to drown to death. Soon in a week he would come back to get his son. But then he would be drowned to death. He had to choose if he wanted to have his son drowning to death or get him out of there. He would have to sacrifice his son for freedom. Four weeks later, at night, he went back to get his son out of the hole. But when he got back he found out that the baby was gone. So while he was looking for his cub, he found some tracks of the zebras. So tiger had to follow the tracks for a long, long time until he found the pack of zebras in the grass eating grain to gain more strength, so if the tiger came back, they could protect the young ones. The young ones could eat their breakfast early so they would not have to ask for lunch.

Then at nighttime, the very old tricky lion came where the very, very tall grasses were, to find his son and bring him back to his habitat to be with more tigers, and so the father tiger had someone to hunt with. Now in the morning, the father tiger said, “I forgot to get the food last night, so I’m going to get some food.” Then the baby tiger said, “I’m not that hungry.”

So into the hole that baby fell into in the nighttime. Then in the morning the father was looking for his son and he fell into the hole with his little baby son for the second time. The zebras had made another hole, another time. And that’s how the zebras got their stripes.

The End