A Sweet Story...

As you well know, I love Panda Bears! This is a sweet story about "How Panda's Got Their Color". I thought I'd share it with my friends :0)

"Long long ago, the pandas lived in the high mountains of Tibet. Their fur was completely snow white. They were friends with young shepherdesses, who watched their flock in the mountains around their village.

One day a mother panda and her cub were playing with the shepherdesses and their flock, when a strong and hungry leopard attacked the panda cub. The shepherdesses try to save the cub, but the leopard kills the girls.

All the pandas in the area were very sad and hold a memorial service for the shepherdesses and to remember their sacrifice for the panda cub. The local custom in the mountains was to cover your arms with ashes to honor the deceased.

The pandas were very sad and they all wept. They wiped their eyes with their paws, and covered their ears to block the sound of the crying. They hugged each other to comfort those crying. As they did this, the ashes blacked their fur.

The pandas did not wash the black off their fur as a reminder of the girls."