How tigers got stripes myth By Abby

How tigers got stripes

Long ago Lula, the tiger began to feel itchy because she lived in a bug infested jungle. The bugs were biting her while she was sleeping. She woke up and there were all these little holes on her back. They were swollen, itchy bites.

The itchiness made her start rubbing her back against everything. She began to wonder what was happening to her, because she was getting all these black dots on her back. Very slowly, they started to turn into little lines! She got worried. She went to see Dr. Mongoose and he looked very bewildered. “Some of the black lines are smaller than others” Dr. Mongoose told Lula.

She was getting increasingly worried as the black lines grew faster and faster, bigger and bigger, while Dr. Mongoose was explaining about it.

Dr. Mongoose gave Lula some magic potion to stop the stripes before they covered her whole, entire body. After a couple of minutes the stripes stopped. Lula was pleased that they had stopped. It started to happen to all the other tigers. Dr. Mongoose was busy making blue magic potion bottles.  If Dr. Mongoose wasn’t there, every single Tiger would have turned into a black pouncing Panther.

That’s how Tigers got stripes.

By Abby

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