17 Jackal
◎The jackal was so frightened that it started running and jumping, howling and begging for mercy.◎
Diandian quickly got up, took the cub, crossed the river, and returned to the other side of the river again.
This is the rule of survival on the grassland, Ryan must drive them away.
After seeing the mother and son leave, Ryan slowly walked over, yawned out of boredom, shook his hair, and looked at Qiao Jinnian with the eyes of looking at a disobedient child.
"She was injured. I helped her pull out the thorns on her body. It hurt." Qiao Jinnian gave a random explanation, then quickly crawled over and tried to stand up. He hugged his huge head and buried himself in his mane, sticking close to him while making a coquettish sound of "Awooo".
Ryan has always been easy to appease, and he immediately forgot why he was unhappy just now.
Qiao Jinnian was happy to find that she seemed to be quite stable when she stood up, so she let Ryan stand and held his belly to practice walking. Finally, in order to test whether he could walk, she let go of his hand and walked to the side.
She walked carefully and had walked dozens of steps without falling down. She was very happy because it meant she could free her hands.
When she learned to walk, the first thing she thought of was to share the good news with Ryan.
However, when she turned around and was about to walk slowly back to Ryan, she found that he had been standing beside her. When he saw her turn around, he stretched out his front paw and slapped her on the shoulder.
Then, unfortunately, she was knocked to the ground by the lion's huge front paws.
Qiao Jinnian: "..."
This was the first time Ryan hit her. Qiao Jinnian was very angry. She sat on the ground, frowned and looked at him with anger on her face.
Perhaps realizing that the force of his claw was indeed a bit too great, Ryan opened his mouth wide, moved closer, and licked her face to express his affection.
Qiao Jinnian: "..."
After having her face washed by the lion's saliva, Qiao Jinnian couldn't even get angry. She glared at him, then continued to stand up by supporting his legs, turned around and continued practicing walking.
Unexpectedly, after only a few steps, she was slapped from behind by Ryan again...
"Ryan!" Qiao Jinnian must not forgive him easily this time.
He looked very embarrassed, but he strongly disagreed with her practicing walking and insisted that she walk on the ground.
Qiao Jinnian couldn't reason with him, but since she wasn't a real child, she couldn't practice walking in front of him, so she might as well practice while he was out hunting.
Thinking of this, Qiao Jinnian felt like a rebellious child, doing things behind his parents' backs that his parents did not allow him to do.
So, from that day on, apart from being busy with the hemp ropes, she secretly practiced walking.
This scene actually interested Dazhuang. He actually jumped down from the tree and followed her, standing up and walking as if he was teaching her how to walk.
Looking from behind, Dazhuang has a strong build, with wrists above his crotch, but the way he walks is a little funny.
"Hahaha." Qiao Jinnian couldn't help laughing. When she saw him looking at her, she quickly covered her mouth, afraid that he would be angry.
As a result, Da Zhuang thought she was very happy, so he bared his teeth, showing all his big yellow teeth to her, and imitated her smile.
Big yellow teeth?
Now that Qiao Jinnian has grown teeth, she thought of making a toothbrush for herself to protect her teeth.
She did what she said. She walked slowly towards the river and looked around, but didn't see any suitable materials. She thought of using plants with more fibers first, and then looking for animal hair that could be used to make toothbrushes.
Now that he can walk, Qiao Jinnian can explore farther places. He is no longer the poor cub who has to crawl on all fours wherever he goes.
Anyway, this is the territory of the river lions, and other top predators do not exist here, otherwise they would have been bitten to death by the lions long ago.
Walking into the territory, Qiao Jinnian didn't dare to go far, so she looked around to see if there were any smaller prey, that is, animals that were not big enough for a lion to fill its teeth, but could be her dinner.
Then, she really saw a pitch-black thing, um, a bit like a pig?
The little pig saw her and ran away in a hurry, and soon disappeared on the grassland.
Qiao Jinnian was not in a hurry, so she followed the route the pig had taken to search. She searched the entire grassland but still couldn't find where the pig had gone.
But I met a puppy with round ears?
No, this should be the legendary jackal, which is very small and timid.
Although he was also a carnivore, Qiao Jinnian was not afraid of him. After all, she had a strong scent of a lion on her body, and the jackals did not dare to provoke her easily.
Lions can allow jackals to exist on this grassland because they are not top predators.
Sure enough, when the jackal saw her cub, it did not come forward, but walked away and looked at her vigilantly.
But he did not leave, instead he was looking for something around.
Canines have a very sensitive sense of smell. Qiao Jin thought about following the jackal to see if she could find the piglet.
The jackal knew she was following him, so he just glanced at her and ignored her, walking straight ahead.
So, when Qiao Jinnian followed him to another grassland, he saw a group of warthogs in the distance.
Well, there are adult warthogs among these warthogs. They all have crooked teeth and look a little dangerous. Qiao Jinnian hesitated. If she caught a baby warthog, she might be able to fight it, but an adult warthog was too scary.
So she hid behind the hillside and watched the jackal hunt.
The jackal is really small and is the weakest carnivore on the grassland.
But this jackal was really brave and ran straight towards the herd of warthogs.
However, he seemed to rush in to disperse the herd of warthogs, but unfortunately, he rushed in without even making a splash. The mother warthog ignored him completely, and the little warthog was not afraid of him because he had his mother's protection.
No wonder a little warthog appeared just now and then ran away quickly. It must have been mischievous and ran to another grassland. When it saw her, it ran back quickly.
Qiao Jinnian wasn't sure what species she was in the eyes of other animals. Perhaps some of them identified her by smell and thought she was a lion cub.
The jackal was ignored and continued to run back and forth among the warthogs, constantly teasing the little warthog, trying to get the little warthog to run away from the herd, but his plan failed and the herd was not fooled at all.
Then, the poor jackal was so tired from walking around that he could only walk out of the warthog herd dejectedly. As he left, he still let out a "woop" at the warthog herd to vent his dissatisfaction.
Then, Qiao Jinnian saw with his own eyes the warthog mother rushing towards the jackal and attacking him with her curved teeth.
The jackal was so frightened that it ran and jumped, howling as it ran, begging for mercy.
Qiao Jinnian: "..."
But what a coincidence, or maybe the jackal had some ulterior motive and deliberately led the warthog mother to her side.
Looking at the warthog mother getting closer and closer to her, Qiao Jinnian wanted to catch the jackal and beat her up.
Without further ado, Qiao Jinnian could only run back.
Poor thing, she had just learned to walk and was forced to start running mode. She was wobbling and must have looked like a duck from behind. She couldn't even bend her legs properly.
"Roar..." Qiao Jinnian ran while imitating the lion's driving roar, trying to let the warthog mother know that he was a lion cub and make her retreat.
I don’t know how long she ran, but fortunately, although she ran slowly, she didn’t fall.
Looking back, she found that the warthog mother was gone, and the jackal was still following her, but because she ran slowly, the jackal just followed her leisurely.
Qiao Jinnian guessed that her lion roar did have some effect.
It was strange that the jackal in front of her looked a little scared in front of her.
In the past, no matter what kind of animal it was, they would treat her as a cub and touch her at will, and even herbivores could easily knock her down. But this jackal, at least a carnivore, why is it so afraid of her?
Qiao Jinnian looked at the jackal carefully. It was about 40 centimeters tall and 80 centimeters long.
Yes, Qiao Jinnian suddenly realized an important thing, that is, humans are also large animals in the animal kingdom, because we are bipeds, we are very tall when we stand up, and animals judge the strength of their opponents by height!
So, even though she is just a baby over one year old, she is at least 70 centimeters tall when she stands up. In the eyes of this jackal, she is not a cub, but a giant animal!
Ha, Qiao Jinnian thought this was a little funny. Did this jackal think she could protect him?
Originally, she just came here to explore the way today and see what else she could eat besides fish. She was an omnivore, and in order to grow up quickly, she still needed to eat some meat, such as a small warthog, and she didn't want to go against the big warthog.
Wait, she couldn't beat the warthog, but she could set a trap, and whoever she caught would be her dinner.
She can't completely turn into a herbivore. People have to survive. Although setting traps somewhat violates the law of the jungle on the grassland, what else can humans use to survive in nature besides having a brain?
Thinking of this, she didn't waste any time and went to get the wooden stick she had sharpened last time and the sharp stone. She found a place where the warthogs couldn't see her and started sitting on the ground to dig a trap.
Strangely enough, the jackal also sat beside her and watched what she was doing.
As he watched, he lost interest. He turned around, found a small hole, stuck his whole head in, and started digging with his claws.
Qiao Jinnian watched him digging the soil and wanted to see if he had found any prey. After he was full, could she ask him to help her dig a trap?
As a result, a little mouse suddenly ran out of the small hole. The jackal quickly bit the little mouse and ate its "little biscuit" on the spot.
Qiao Jinnian: “…” 10 cm long little mouse, are you serious?
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