It was a clear, crisp night at the Alaska Zoo. Impossibly tall conifers surrounded a large, clean pen housing a very cute and soft animal who was emerging now that the day's crowds had been sent home. Even the zoo-keepers had left for the night, allowing the facility's most prized possession a certain amount of privacy. Out stepped Ling Ling, the only Panda bear in Alaska, or for that matter in this hemisphere.
She idly waddled to sit on a rock placed among a grove of carefully manicured bamboo trees. Her glossy brown eyes peered out beyond the chain-link fence, to a world she could only imagine but never touch. The wind changed direction and she smelled that amorous, musky, thick and wild scent. Her nightly visitor was up the hill, hidden by dense forest, not too far away. Little did she know that this night, he would become more than a just a visitor.
Ten minutes later, his scent disappeared. Saddened by his disappearance, Ling Ling retreated in to the back of her plywood "cave". Nestling in the hay, she shed one solitary panda tear, so lonely and miserable.
Suddenly, she heard a great crash, and a rusty tearing sound. Her mysterious visitor had barreled down the hill at breakneck speed and rammed open, with his sheer bulk, the zoo-keeper's gate! He emerged before her, an impressively large (about seven feet tall and almost a thousand pounds of muscle) and feral beast -- an adult male grizzly bear! Frightened before she could comprehend, Ling Ling let out a yelp, but was overpowered by the grizzly bear's earsplitting roar. He grabbed Ling Ling, threw her over his rippling shoulder, and carried her away in to the virgin Alaskan wilderness.
Barreling over rocks, fallen logs and hilly terrain, the Grizzly ran in to the night, grasping Ling Ling to him with a mix of gentle fondness and ferocious possessiveness. Ling Ling screamed and wailed, clawing at his gnarly fur, which she could not penetrate. After a long time she gave up, and began to cry great sobbing, hysterical tears. She was so helpless and exhausted from fighting; she could do nothing else but weep!