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whispers-of-the-wild: Cheetah “When their mother came back half an hour later and found the babies gone, she was broken-hearted. The poor mother cheetah cried and cried, until her tears made dark stains down her cheeks. She wept all night, and all the next day. She cried so loudly that she was heard by an old man, who came to see what all the noise was about…  The old man took the three cheetah cubs and returned them to their grateful mother; but the long weeping of the mother cheetah had stained her face permanently, and so, to this day, say the Zulu, the cheetah wears the tearstains on its face as a reminder to the hunters that it is not honorable to hunt in any other way than that which is traditional.” - a Zulu story. Photo by: martytdx Click for more nature!

whispers-of-the-wild:

Cheetah

“When their mother came back half an hour later and found the babies gone, she was broken-hearted. The poor mother cheetah cried and cried, until her tears made dark stains down her cheeks. She wept all night, and all the next day. She cried so loudly that she was heard by an old man, who came to see what all the noise was about… 

The old man took the three cheetah cubs and returned them to their grateful mother; but the long weeping of the mother cheetah had stained her face permanently, and so, to this day, say the Zulu, the cheetah wears the tearstains on its face as a reminder to the hunters that it is not honorable to hunt in any other way than that which is traditional.” - a Zulu story.

Photo by: martytdx

Click for more nature!

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