How Cheetah got its stripes - Honorable Mention at LA Film Festival
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EnglishVoice Age
Young Adult (18-35)Accents
British (England - Cockney, Estuary, East End) British (England - South East - Oxford, Sussex) British (General) British (Received Pronunciation - RP, BBC)Transcript
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This is the story of how cheetahs markings came to be inspired by a Zulu folk tale. A wicked lazy hunter sat under a tree thinking it was just too hot to stock. Pray in the bush. On the grassland below him were fat, grazing Springbok. If only he could have the meat without doing the work, he thought when he noticed something. A female cheetah seeking food, approaching the heard from down wind, getting closer and closer, she singled out one Springbok until suddenly and with great speed she sprang and brought it down, dragging her prize away into the shade to three beautiful cups. Lazy Hunter was so jealous he wished he could hunt like that cheetah, which is when he had a wicked idea. What if he could steal a cub and train it to hunt for him? His chance came when the sun began to set and the cheetah left her young to drink from a nearby waterhole. The hunter snuck down to the gentle cubs. When they didn't run away, he thought our three cubs better than one, so he stole them all. When the Cheetah returned, she found her cubs were gone. Heartbroken, she cried and cried until her tears left long, dark stains down her cheeks. She cried so loudly that an old man came by to see what all the noise was about. He was angry to learn that the thieving hunter had broken with tribe tradition. An honourable hunter must only ever use his own strength and skill. When the old man told the village elders they found the hunter and drove him away. And though the cubs will return to the Grateful Mother, the stains of her weeping would forever remain mhm. Mm.
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