There was snowing in land. This have never happened before, all the animals was bewildered. They where used to rain - and when it was raining then it was not small little drops, it was more like purring out water from a bucket. But then it only come some rain every 7 years our so - that was not often.

The giraffe was most suited for the snow, small and thin not so much snow that could hit hers body. The rhino was most angry - it was cold, it was wet and seemed liked all little white things hit this rhino in particular. That was not really the case, but as this rhino was extremely nearsighted, so to him it looked that all snow was hitting him and only him.

The ants were now digging hard to get out from there home. Normally when there was rain or flood, they use there life west and did there laundry - but the snow was not behaving like anything they have seen before. It melted in the hand, but before that it stacked up and gave them a hard time to get out.

It had been cold for several days before the snow come, only the elephants had complained about the cold wheatear.  Most of the other animals had fur, and they survived a little cold weather. Or friend the Tiger, Bjorn was his name, had fur and was really comfortable in the cold wheatear- did you know that Tigers also live in south Siberian, where it is really cold. A tiger can even survive outside up in northen courtiers like Sweden, if he find some food.  Tiger Bjorn was happy about the snow it looked really nice and was falling down soft and easy. Compare to a heavy rain this was nice, and everything got covered in white sand - like a nice bed.

Tiger Bjorn ran around trying to catch as many snowflakes as possible with his head, they tickled so good, and was wet and nice. How strange that those different individuals can feel totally different about the same thing. Some people like the snow and some do not like it, do you like snow?

The snow come down for several hours, so every stone and bush got cover with a thin layer of snow. The baboons did find out that you could build things with the snow. They build a chair for the Amarillo. And when he sat down in the chair of snow, they quickly cover him with more snow so only his nose was coming out as a small stick from the white hill.

If you listen carefully you could hear him say from the inside, "Hey you, this was not nice, get me out of hear!” The baboons also made a copy of the ant hill next to it, looked the same and were the same height. The few ants that was out during the snow, when they got back home, they was trouble because all of them was seeing two homes next to each others. The snow not only make thing white, it made it also to duplicate.

So I would guess that this little snow gave that we lost around 200 ants, not because they freeze to death - but they starve to death trying to find the entrance on the wrong ant hill.

None of this was Tiger Bjorn aware of; he only played around in the snow. The hyenas was laughing there heads of, because they hade found the big bad snake laying totally still in the snow, and he cold not move. Most lizards and snake are depending on the wheatear to be able to move, if it is to cold they can not move. So the hyenas took the snake and used him as a club, when they in the snowy landscape took some time of to practice there golf swing. There were in this part of the country rather many animals that competed in playing golf, but that is another story.

The snake on the other hand, he could not move - but was thinking "Wait you little rascals, when I got warm I will bite you every one".

The Tiger Bjorn had gone down to the small lake; it had not been so cold close to the ground and the water, so there was no ice on the lake. Also the water was constantly moving from the river, which prevented it from becoming ice, if you happened to be on a lake - where it is ice try to remember that the ice is weakest close to the open water. Anyway Tiger Bjorn took a walk around the lake and checked how the crocodiles was doing, most of them where staying in the water - because it was warmer than in the air. Tiger Bjorn asked them if they did not want to come up and play, they could go around and make funny tracks in the snow. His hade himself done a few different already. a few yards away a passing toucan bird had notice Tiger Bjorns tracks in the snow and he was now flying around them thinking - "Gee, that is a track I have not seen before, and even do I have been to the library in Alexandria, so I should now one or two things, they look like a two legged flatfooted hippo with a big tail have jumped past her"- maybe you can make a drawing of Tiger Bjorn when he did that tracks tomorrow?

But the crocodiles were not interested to go up from the, well, warm water. So Tiger Bjorn went further down the path to the woods. There he found a lot of zebras and gnus trying to get some shelter in the woods, between the threes. When they saw the Tiger Bjorn coming they were really uneasy, where they needed to run out in the snow or become his dinner? But Tiger Bjorn had eaten last day, so he was not hungry. As all wild tigers, he only eat every third day - and sometimes when the hunting was no good it could take a few more days before he had breakfast. Tiger Bjorn turned around and headed back home, to see if there where some animals to play with there. The hyenas were not improving there golf swing, they had already lost all there white golf bolls - somehow they disappeared in the snow when they landed...

"Hello, do you wanna play hide and seek" tiger asked the hyenas when he got back to his home turf. "Yes, said the hyenas, the balls are all out.” The hyenas throw away the big bad snake / he landed soft, and when the warmth comes he was not so much hurt- only a few brushes, that made his famous body pattern.

There is one snake art there have dark spots on it, they are next of kind to our poor big bad snake that got, well I admit it, hurt reel bad during the winter golf playoffs in the savannah.

One of the hyenas started, and the other and Tiger Bjorn when away and try to hide behind stones and threes and moving zebras. Tiger Bjorn only lay down on the ground. That normally worked very well, because the Tiger is yellow with black strips, or was it black with yellow stripes, and the high grass was also dark yellow, so when he lie down in it - nobody could see him.

Today the grass was white.

A bird passing by, wondering about the snow, also notice that the ground was white, except for a yellow spot where our friend Tiger Bjorn was hiding,

The hyena found Tiger Bjorn in no time. So a sad Tiger Bjorn has to be the next player to try to find the others. He closed his eyes and counted for a while " 1,2,30,42,23,45,64,34,..100" and then he open his eyes and looked around. The hyenas were no where to found.

One the ground there where a lot of footprints, they where easy to see, normally they was not seen as clearly in the dirt as they did in the new snow. Tiger Bjorn took one and follow the tracks to see if he would find a hyena. He run rather fast because he would like to catch him fast, so he could improve his own tactic to hide in snow. "Maybe I should take a shower in flavour" thought Tiger Bjorn as he run after the tracks, he did not see the small three log under the snow - so he trip and feel with nose down first in a close by snow wall. Legs pointing in all directions, the hidden hyenas had been watching Tiger Bjorn from there different hideouts, but could not ignore this fall, and was now laughing as crazy. But because Tiger Bjorn got snow in ear and they where all laughing the same time, he could not hear from where they where hiding. He shaked of the snow and continued on the track. Tiger Bjorns big feet was softly walking him forward in the snow at high speed, he turned around the big rock and collided with the rhino - who had taking cover behind the rock because he felt the snow was coming from the side and not from the sky. He was already angry, and did not like to get a fast moving yellow cat in his face. Tiger Bjorn simple said "Sorry" and jumped over the rhino to the other side. Rhino turned around and run after Tiger Bjorn to say to him, "Do not do that again, I already got a headache". A hyena that was hiding in a bush was seeing Tiger Bjorn getting close, so he ran out and tries to get farter away between the bushes to not let Tiger Bjorn see him. The rhino was still after the Tiger Bjorn, because he had the feeling that Tiger Bjorn had not heard him. The hyena was feeling secure and said to tiger "Ha-ha, you can not take me". Maybe not the wises to say to a tiger of 300 lbs who are casing you.

Tiger Bjorn was getting close to the hyena. The hyena run fast back to the home, and took a sharp turn between the two ant hills. When Tiger Bjorn come to the same spot, he used his claws and turned even sharper. To sharp, he collided in the ant hill made of snow - that was little to much snow, so he stopped there with snow on his head. Then the rhino come tumbling down the lane, he also made a turn, but he could not stop that easy - no claws and the snow was becoming slippery. So he got strait ahead into the second ant hill, now you know that ants in Africa build really strong nests. Even a rhino, without claws, did not manage to destroy the ant hill. It was a dead stop for him instead. This really did not improve his headache. The ants on the other hand got there home back. The copy was destroyed by the cat, and the crash with the rhino was so big that all snow on the ant hill flow of the walls to the ground.

Well that is the end of this story , and now you should sleep.