Stories · How Things Came to Be

The Leopard Who Learned the Color of Shadows

12 min · England · Wisdom · Letting go

In a deep, dappled forest, an old baboon gently shows a proud young leopard that the moth, the hare, and the fawn all survive not by force but by agreeing with the world, and the leopard learns to let the season change her coat and her heart.

Retold from Just So Stories, by Rudyard Kipling.

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Story 7 of How Things Came to Be, starting at 1:22:44.