69 After the Disaster
◎This year is even worse. We encountered a prairie fire, and life has become even more difficult...◎
After making eye contact with the bull elephant, Qiao Jinnian did not quickly move away from his sight. Instead, she nodded to him as a greeting, even though he did not understand at all.
After saying hello, Qiao Jinnian did not leave, but climbed up a tree nearby and plucked off a lot of leaves to feed the rabbit and Stripes. After all, the entire grassland here was burned, which was indeed a bit troublesome during this period.
I don’t know if rabbits and zebras can eat the leaves that elephants eat.
But it turns out that the rabbits and zebras we raise at home are quite easy to keep alive, and these leaves are also part of their diet, but the tree is too tall for them to eat.
Seeing that the bull elephant was still trying hard to hit a tree, Qiao Jinnian cut off a few branches from the tree and threw them towards him to see if he would eat them.
The bull elephant was stunned and looked up at her, not understanding why she was cutting branches for him.
Elephants are gregarious and highly social animals with exceptionally high IQs. They also need the company of their own kind. When male elephants are driven out of their herd at the age of 10 and become independent, they will search for like-minded individuals to form new male elephant alliances.
However, this male elephant did not go crazy, nor was he rejected on a blind date. He probably had not found a good friend yet, and then encountered a prairie fire, and suddenly became a disabled elephant. Thinking about it this way, it seems a bit pitiful.
Qiao Jinnian didn't mean to help him, but she felt that if he kept knocking down a tree every day, the vegetation in this grassland would be sparse to begin with. If he continued like this, it would be a bit scary and not good for the ecological environment of this area.
But she thought about it and decided that she couldn't help him forever. After all, an elephant needs to eat a lot of leaves in one meal. Even if she helped him once, he would still need to keep hitting trees afterwards.
So, she just had some good intentions and was helping a lonely person.
Smiling dejectedly, Qiao Jinnian roared at the bull elephant: "Moo——"
The male elephant hesitated for a moment, then stepped forward and stuffed all the leaves she threw to him into his mouth, and began to eat them with relish.
He also stopped his crazy action of hitting the tree. Maybe he felt tired. No matter how strong he was, he couldn't work so hard.
A little bit of kindness can make the elephant feel cared for. After all, it would be difficult for a disabled elephant like him to find a good friend willing to take him in, and he really needs the company of companions.
This is probably the biggest difference between social animals and solitary animals. For example, Diandian couldn't wait to drive her son away when he was just two years old.
Seeing that he was not going to hit the tree, Qiao Jin thought it was better to be a good person. Since he had already climbed a tree, he had to practice tree-climbing skills every day. So he simply climbed a few more trees and cut a few branches from each tree, so as not to destroy the entire tree.
She took most of the branches to the bull elephant and made him dinner. The rest were all for rabbits and zebras, which she tied up with hemp rope.
The male elephant stretched out his trunk, intending to touch her face. Unfortunately, he forgot that his trunk was injured, and only the base could stand upright. The entire trunk after the hollow section drooped down and fell into the air, looking horrible.
The trunk plays a very important role for an elephant. It is a tool for eating, drinking water, and even an important weapon and communication organ.
One can imagine how sad this lonely male elephant must be.
Qiao Jinnian walked up and touched his drooping elephant trunk to express his comfort, then dragged the leaves back to his own lion group.
The hare and the zebra didn't eat much and were very quiet. Qiao Jinnian built a haystack for himself and prepared to start practicing throwing.
The mother shoebill did not leave and was still living next to the puddle.
Seeing Qiao Jinnian throwing weapons at a pile of straw, the shoebill stork came over curiously to take a look after finishing its hunt.
Qiao Jinnian ignored her and let her stand aside.
When seeing this mother, Qiao Jinnian thought of the abandoned little shoebill stork. She hadn't seen the cub for a long time. She wondered if he was still alive?
So, this shoebill mother should now only have one shoebill baby with her, which is in better health.
Alas, this is the cruel animal world, and Qiao Jinnian has no way to judge it.
Unexpectedly, the shoebill mother suddenly plucked a gray feather from her body with her long beak, walked up to her, and wanted to give her her feather as a gift.
Qiao Jinnian always maintained the good habit of being polite, so he took out some dried meat from his pocket and handed her two pieces.
The shoebill eats small crocodiles, but it also seems to like the roasted dried meat and eats it with relish.
After finishing strength training, Qiao Jinnian thought of the injured lioness mother and decided to go over to see if she was okay.
Carrying Star and Freckles, Qiao Jinnian ran madly and came to the territory of the former neighboring lion group. Everything had changed and it looked desolate. Moreover, the two new territory lions had not returned and no one knew where they had run off to.
The cheating old lion took his other family with him and no one knew where they went.
The mother lioness must have been seriously injured. There were no territorial lions here, so Qiao Jinnian went directly to the core territory.
Five cubs were seen surrounding their mother, who appeared to be seriously injured and unlikely to survive.
This is a large-scale burn, and unless there is intervention from modern medicine, there is only one way to go, which is death.
The mother lioness said goodbye to her good sisters one by one, rubbing her head and forehead against each sister, as if she was taking care of her last wishes.
The cubs looked very sad, and kept making miserable cries of "Awoo, Awoo—" beside their mother.
All the animals knew that the lioness didn't have much time left.
But she herself was not that sad. Perhaps it was because her sisters promised her that they would take good care of the cubs, and that was enough.
By evening, the mother lioness had completely lost her life.
The sisters were very sad, but they could only watch as the vultures swarmed over and began to eat the body of the poor lioness.
The cubs were taken away by their aunts, as the lionesses were afraid they would be surrounded by vultures.
The hyenas and jackals have also come. Perhaps from tomorrow, only some debris will remain here, which will gradually dry up under the invasion of hot and dry wind and sand.
Before leaving, the cubs looked back at Qiao Jinnian, then continued to follow their aunts.
This lion pride is also a large one, but it has lost two male lions and an adult lioness in succession, so its fighting power has been damaged. It also has cubs to raise, so the pressure has doubled. There are also several older lionesses, so I wonder what will happen to them in the future?
After returning to his own territory and remembering these cruel realities, Qiao Jinnian began to practice his skills more diligently.
Now, she has been able to successfully sneak attack the four little ones several times, no, it can be said that there are five little ones, including Qiangzi.
She set her sights on the black-footed cat again. It was said that this ferocious beast had a particularly strong hunting ability at night. It had excellent eyesight and hearing, and was not picky about food. It would eat whatever was available, and had a particularly strong jumping ability.
So, Qiao Jinnian deliberately slept a little later, and followed the black-footed cat when it went hunting at night, wanting to see how it hunted.
But don’t underestimate this guy. He can walk dozens of kilometers to hunt. He is really a model worker.
But these few dozen kilometers are too easy for Qiao Jinnian now. She has been practicing running with the king of speed. How can this be difficult for her?
The black-footed cat must have noticed that he was being followed a long time ago, but he ignored Qiao Jinnian and just ran forward, tracking a little bird.
The birds fly in the sky, but sometimes they fly down and land on the grass. At this time, the black-footed cat walks completely silently.
Therefore, Qiao Jinnian did not dare to disrupt his hunting operation, otherwise dozens of kilometers would be run in vain. He had to stay where he was, not daring to move.
While waiting for the bird to fly down and pausing briefly in a clump of grass, the black-footed cat had already arrived 2 meters in front of the bird.
The predator's vision is naturally suited for hunting at night, so its vision is particularly good. On the contrary, the prey's vision is very poor at night, and the bird did not notice that there was a natural enemy 2 meters away.
Just when the bird had rested and wanted to fly away, the black-footed cat jumped on the spot and bit the bird to death in the air, killing the prey in one second.
Qiao Jinnian was extremely impressed, but she also knew that she should remain quiet at this time.
Unfortunately, it was just a small bird. A small black-footed cat would eat at least one-fifth of their body weight in prey in one night, so this meant that he had to continue hunting and move forward.
In fact, Qiao Jinnian didn't know why she came to observe him hunting. It was probably to learn the hunting techniques of various animals. No matter how many skills she learned, they would be useful one day.
That night, she did not sleep all night and followed him all over the grassland. Fortunately, they did not leave the territory of their own lion group and the neighboring lion groups, so they were relatively safe and no large predator would come and eat her.
The sun rises from the east, illuminating the entire grassland. The red sun fills the sky, and the silhouettes of all animals appear in the huge sky: sparse grass and trees, herds of giraffes as tall as trees, herds of rhinos with tall horns, and herds of elephants raising their noses to smell the scents around them.
The huge sun was scorching the earth, and all the animals began a new journey of the day. Various flocks of birds chirped, reminding everyone that a new day had begun.
But on this grassland, you can still smell the stench of rotting animal carcasses, the dry environment, and the flying yellow sand. This is the dry season on the grassland.
This year is even worse, with the prairie fires, life has become even more difficult...
All the animals were looking up at the sky to see when it would rain.
The heavy rain finally came. The sky was covered with dark clouds, and the standard cylinder appeared like a magic trick. Amidst flashes of lightning and thunder, the heavy rain poured down with a "boom-boom" sound. It came quickly and went away quickly. It only rained for half an hour.
But this was enough. The heavy rain for half an hour moistened the dry ground. On the grass that had been burned clean by the fire, the grass roots breathed in the rare rain water hungrily.
The rainy season of the new year is coming!
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