MaLu's Adventure 04
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MaLu's first great Love |
This morning MaLu's family woke
up before sunrise. MaLu's elephant grandpa had solemnly awakened them
with an elephant song. They have their last breakfast together before
the great pilgrimage of the animals begins. MaLu is very excided, as his
elephant parents have told him a lot about the other animals, which are
said to exist, too.
All the elephants keep an eye on MaLu so that he is not overlooked by other animals and hurt, for MaLu is very small, still. At first MaLu does not see any other animals. He only hears a lot of new sounds and cannot place them. MaLu thinks that the wandering is very exhausting. However, everything is different during a feeding break. They are at a river and they not only drink the water, but they also spray it onto each other. MaLu really has a great time!
MaLu does not get to eat because he marvels at all the different animals which pass them. MaLu only makes a lot of noises his family laughs about loudly: ahhh, ohhh, hmmm. Wow. He thinks that the zebras are especially funny and asks them who painted them so beautifully. MaLu also wants to have that. And then there are so many thin legs and MaLu finds that to be strange. So many legs, but no stomach and no head, either. Until MaLu lifts his head and sees the giraffes, which eat the leaves from a tree.
All of a sudden MaLu notices that somebody is on his back merrily humming along. This something seems to dance on his back. Suddenly it starts to slip and lands with a loud cry right in front of MaLu on the floor. It is the little she-
Immediately his elephant friends, who are all older than he is, tell him that it is not normal for an elephant to be friends with a she-