Origin Stories

We've been writing 'Origin Stories' to explain (using our wild imagination) how some animals got the interesting features they have - like how a giraffe got its long neck, a tiger got its stripes, an elephant got its trunk, a peacock got its feathers, etc. 

Here's a story by (O.R.) 

A long time ago all the elephants had short trunks and they liked them.  Their life was very good but they had a baby elephant who did not like his life because he really wanted a long trunk.  His parents said it’s okay maybe you will get a long trunk one day.  The baby elephant said alright and he wandered off for a drink from a pond.  When he was there he reached for a drink then snap! a crocodile had got him by the nose.  The mean scaly sharp toothed crocodile pulled hard but the baby elephant pulled too.  He let out a loud trumpet and his parents and the herd ran to help him.  When they got there they were pulling as hard as they could.  The crocodile finally gave up because they were too strong and the elephants all fell back when he let go.  The baby elephant got his dream because when the herd and the crocodile were pulling his trunk was stretching.  It hurt but that’s how elephants got their long trunks.