79 Melee
◎Thus, the three brothers' plan to hunt wildebeests completely failed.◎
No matter how angry she was, she had to live her life. This also taught Qiao Jinnian that not all animals were friendly, especially hippos. If she was too careless, she might not even know how she died.
In her heart, she is a lion, and those lions are her kind. When she is attacked by a hippo, if they just roar kindly, they might be able to help her scare the hippo away. Unfortunately, she is the only one who thinks so.
Once again, she deeply realized that she was the only weirdo who thought that animals needed help and everyone should just take care of themselves. In this animal world, even biological parents would not necessarily sacrifice their lives for other animals, not to mention that everyone was just the same kind.
It took Qiao Jinnian five years to realize this truth, because she had actually lived in human society for 18 years and it was difficult for her to accept this kind of values.
Now, she thought, perhaps, the most important thing is to keep herself alive.
After packing his luggage again, Qiao Jinnian, holding Stripe and letting Cloak identify the smell, prepared to go find his three younger brothers and take one last look at them to see if they had occupied a piece of grassland.
After visiting her brother, it was time for her to go home and see her father.
Cape is a canine animal with a keen sense of smell. It took him a few days to find the latest clues about his three younger brothers.
When Qiao Jinnian arrived at his younger brother's new temporary territory, he discovered that his younger brothers had already moved to another place. Their current territory was next to a bush. There were many herbivores, but there was also a lot of competition.
Qiao Jinnian did not appear in front of his younger brothers. He just wanted to stay here for a few days, observe his younger brothers, and go back after making sure there was no problem.
Since his brothers left the southern grassland, Sa Dadan has grown rapidly and his mane has grown very big. After several months of wandering, he now looks like an adult lion, but his personality is still a little erratic, which is his shortcoming.
In Qiao Jinnian's mind, Sa Dadan was a bit like a warrior with great strength, a simple mind, and strong individual combat ability, but a bit reckless.
Sa Short Face has balanced development in all aspects. He is very clingy and bold. He listens to his brother and does whatever his brother tells him to do. He is a loyal and good brother and very reliable.
The most surprising one is Qiangzi. At the beginning, Qiangzi insisted on wandering with his brothers. Now Qiangzi has finally grown short mane, a typical sub-adult Mohawk hairstyle, and it is obvious that he is a minor.
However, Qiangzi is very strong, and Qiao Jinnian feels that he is very smart. He is not the kind of lion who is brave but not wise. He has a high IQ.
During several hunting trips, Qiangzi put in a lot of effort, but in fact, most of the time he simply didn't listen to Sa Dadan's orders. Sa Dadan was also a bit careless and didn't care whether Qiangzi listened to him or not, as long as Qiangzi put in the effort to hunt.
In fact, her younger brothers all have good natures. After all, they have Sister Sa's careful teaching. If Qiangzi were in an ordinary lion group, he would not be accepted to form an alliance and would usually be driven away directly.
However, these two brothers were willing to share food with Qiangzi, which made Qiao Jinnian very happy.
That day, Qiao Jinnian climbed up a tree to pick fruit, and then lay on the tree, eating dried meat and fruit while watching his younger brothers hunting.
On the surface, it was Sa Dadan who made the hunting plan, Sa Duanlian was responsible for dispersing the wildebeest herd, and Qiangzi and Sa Dadan chased them on both sides.
This was a seemingly very simple hunting plan, and Short-Lian Sa executed it particularly well. He deliberately rushed into the wildebeest herd and disrupted the formation.
Qiangzi, a lion, took the lead and rushed out first, trying to bite the wildebeest's butt, but this wildebeest was obviously a young and strong one, and they seemed to have chosen the wrong target.
But it didn't matter. Qiangzi kept chasing after him tenaciously, and soon Sa Dadan also caught up, trying to pounce from the wildebeest to the front and lock its throat.
However, the throat-locking technique is not so easy to perform. It requires long-term hunting skills training. For example, Ryan and Sister Sa can both do it. It is something that adult lions have practiced for several years.
These three sub-adults had not yet fully mastered the technique and were still a little short of the necessary skills, so Sa's bold throat-locking technique failed. Not only that, he also fell to the ground because of the excessive force. The sand on the ground suddenly turned into yellow sand and his vision became blurred.
Only Qiangzi was still stubbornly chasing the wildebeest that they had locked onto in advance.
Unfortunately, the wildebeest is not a fool. It can be said that the animals on the grassland, whether herbivores or carnivores, are very vigilant, have long-term survival experience, and have high IQs.
Therefore, the adult wildebeest directly adopted the strategy of diverting the trouble to another group of wildebeests, and successfully hid itself among its companions.
This is the survival wisdom of animals, allowing their companions to spread their risks.
But Qiangzi would never give up so easily. He set his sights on the wildebeest he had chased at the beginning. This was because he had been chasing that wildebeest for a long time, so the prey had consumed more energy and was obviously easier to catch up with than other wildebeests.
Soon, the other companions also fled in all directions, and the wildebeest's figure appeared in front of Qiangzi again.
But Qiangzi is still a sub-adult after all. Even if he is tough enough, he cannot compare with an adult lion in terms of physical fitness and speed.
Therefore, the three brothers' plan to hunt wildebeests completely failed.
The younger brothers were almost exhausted. They stood on the endless grassland with their mouths wide open, gasping for breath. They must have been very discouraged at this moment because they did not catch any prey and had wasted so much energy.
Alas, this is the reality. Although lions work as a team, their hunting efficiency is not high and failure is common.
Qiao Jinnian just looked at them and felt a little distressed, but this was a process that his younger brothers needed to go through, and they would definitely grow up.
Unlike Qiao Jinnian, whose diet is very wide-ranging and he can eat fruits and eggs, and he only needs to hunt once in a while for meat so that he can roast a lot of jerky. His younger brothers have huge appetites, and the three of them must capture prey as big as a wildebeest.
However, what was even more infuriating was that the brothers had already failed in their hunting, and then a pack of wild dogs suddenly appeared from nowhere nearby.
The wild dog queen actually watched the entire hunting process of her brothers and knew that the wildebeest had been lured away by the lions for a long time and was out of energy. At this time, they could hunt it directly without even having to choose a new target to chase.
Yes, it is an animal, and it can see the wild dog queen’s psychological activities at this moment.
"Oh oh oh oh——" The wild dog queen issued the order to hunt. The wild dogs lined up neatly, about a dozen of them, arranged in a shape similar to a large triangle. At first, the queen chased the prey at close range, and the other wild dog members followed closely, but kept a certain distance.
When the wild dog queen is running out of energy, another wild dog will speed up and start chasing her, while the other wild dogs will continue to maintain their formation.
This is the clever hunting method of the wild dog family. They emphasize teamwork. Each wild dog goes up to fight one-on-one, challenging the wildebeest's speed until the wildebeest is run to death.
Yes, it is no wonder that wild dogs have a higher hunting success rate than lions. How could such a highly cooperative hunting method fail?
This wildebeest was really tenacious. He once again tried to repeat his plan of diverting trouble in front of the pack of wild dogs. This time he ran to the zebra herd, trying to divert the trouble to them. But the wild dogs were not stupid. Under the leadership of the queen, they had a very clear goal and would not change their targets at will.
Soon, the wildebeest could no longer run and gradually fell behind. At this time, the other wild dog members who had been lagging behind rushed forward, surrounded the wildebeest from both sides, and left it with no way out. With their large numbers and great strength, they soon bit the wildebeest to death.
It has to be said that Qiao Jinnian also admired the wildebeest's tenacity. Unfortunately, although he ran out of the lions' encirclement, he could not escape the wild dogs' superb hunting skills.
The wild dogs were relatively small, but there were a lot of them. Soon, some members went to call out all the puppies at home to eat.
The puppies were only half the size of adult wild dogs, with irregular patches of various colors on their bodies. They were protected by their parents and ate meat in big mouthfuls.
The younger brothers could only lick their lips and lie on the grass to rest, because they had wasted too much energy. Even if they wanted to snatch the meat from the wild dogs, they probably didn't have the strength to do so.
When it comes to sub-adult male lions, wild dog packs and hyena packs are both capable of fighting. They will prey on the lions they see and can judge how powerful each one is.
From this point of view, only the younger brothers are more pitiful.
Shaking her head, Qiao Jinnian decided not to watch anymore and was about to climb down the tree, but she saw another good show.
A passing lion group actually ran over and wanted to compete with the wild dogs for the prey.
Ha, this lion group passing by happened to be the same lion group that had picked up a hippopotamus corpse for free before. Yes, it was the lion group that watched the hippopotamus die without helping.
Since he was free anyway, Qiao Jinnian climbed back up the tree, planning to wait until they were done fighting before going back to avoid being affected.
There are quite a lot of lion members, and the wild dog pack looks quite dangerous, but their numbers are not super large.
Soon, the lions in the pride started roaring: "Roar--"
This was the signal to start expelling the wild dogs directly, but the wild dog queen obviously did not want to give away the results of her tribe's pursuit for half a day, so she bared her teeth and began to resist.
The lion group did not expect to encounter such a tough opponent. The two sides started to get into chaos after a disagreement.
Often, lions have the final say over wild dogs. A pack of wild dogs will only pose a threat to a lion group if their numbers are extremely large, but this pack of wild dogs is not that large. So, from this scene, it looks like the pack of wild dogs will definitely fail, it's just a matter of time.
Soon, the lion killed a wild dog, and all the wild dogs rushed forward to help their companions. The wild dogs were very united and obeyed the queen's orders very well.
Because of that little incident, although Qiao Jinnian felt that the lion was of the same kind, she still supported the wild dog more in her heart. After all, it was the wild dog that caught the food, and she didn't like any behavior of snatching food.
Just when the Wild Dog Queen was about to give up her food to save the lives of her tribe members, she unexpectedly rushed into the battlefield with her two younger brothers...
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