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Once upon a time, there lived a panda named 

Bamboo. He lived with his panda family and 

panda friends in a bamboo forest.

Bamboo loved to hang out with his other panda 

friends. They would climb up the bamboo trees 

and play games like tag and hide and go seek. 

After a full day of playing, his mother would call 

for him to come home for dinner and to hang 

out with his little sister.

He loved his life, but he felt like something was 

missing.

One day Bamboo asked his friend Chang if she 

wanted to go on an adventure.

"But where would we go?" Chang asked. "I've 

never been anywhere outside this forest."

"Neither have I," Bamboo replied. "But I feel like 

there are more animals out there besides just us 

pandas."

So Bamboo and Chang left the forest in search of 

something new.

Bamboo and Chang hadn't made it very far 

before they encounter the first strange animal. 

Both of them were hesitant to approach the 

small fuzzy gray animal, scared that it might 

bite them.

It scurried over to them quickly and raised his 

acorn back to his mouth to continue snacking 

on.

"Don't worry pandas, I promise I'm not 

dangerous," it explained. "I'm just a little 

squirrel Sami."

Chang was still hesitant to approach the squirrel 

or to speak to it but Bamboo bravely spoke first.

"Hello Sami," Bamboo replied. "I'm Bamboo and 

this is Chang. We've never left our bamboo forest 

or met any other animals so we decided to go on 

an adventure today. Could you help us?"

"Oh my! You've never met any other animals?" 

Sami exclaimed. "Of course I'll help you and I'll 

introduce you to all my friends."

When Bamboo and Chang came upon the spiky 

creature, they ran and hid behind the tree.

"Porky the porcupine is a sweetheart guys!" Sami 

stated. "She wouldn't hurt a fly so come on out from 

behind that tree."

"I only use my spikes to intimidate against predators 

who try to attack me," Porky explained. "I love to climb 

up trees if you want to join."

They spent the next hour climbing trees and jumping 

from branch to branch, laughing and playing the entire 

time.

As they continued on their journey, they 

encountered many more different types of 

critters. 

They played tag with Foxy the fox, ate snacks with 

Racky the raccoon, swung from trees with Banana 

the monkey, went swimming with Teddy the 

grizzly bear, sang with Tweety the bird and and 

picked flowers with Flutter the butterfly.

Overall, they had a very busy morning.

By the afternoon, Bamboo, Chang, and Sami 

made it all the way to an African savanna with 

much larger animals than they had seen in the 

forest.

They met two large male lions who stayed home 

while the lionesses hunted for food. They hung 

out with the elephants at the watering hole for a 

refreshing swim. Bamboo was astounded by the 

giraffe's long neck while Chang loved playing with 

the striped zebras.

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