91 Exploration
Leiber was so mad at the feather, and it embarrassed him in front of his brothers and sisters, that he sneezed loudly!
As rainfall decreased, the weather became increasingly drier, but the lion group showed no sign of migrating.
Qiao Jinnian looked at the lion father strangely, only to see that his eyes were deep. Sometimes he would look up at the sky, and sometimes he would look at the underage children.
Then, Qiao Jinnian understood that their lion group was not planning to migrate to the north this year.
After all, the lion's territory has expanded three times and is now very large. If they do not migrate, they can still have a lot of food, but the types of food they eat may need to change.
Besides, with so many sub-adults, adult lions have to consider the huge risks along the way of migration. If they accidentally enter the territory of other lion groups, the local territorial lions may kill the sub-adults.
Knowing that his lion pride would stay on this land this year, Qiao Jinnian began to think about the problem of food during the dry season.
The food for carnivores is not so bad, as there is not as much food for herbivores. They can even eat drought-resistant lizards. Herbivores that are unwilling to leave their homes can also gnaw on dry grass roots or cacti.
Seeing that the zebras, wildebeests and gazelles had left the grassland one after another, Qiao Jinnian took advantage of the fact that they were still there and captured a few alive to prevent her children from having no meat to eat.
However, as the drier season approaches, food becomes increasingly scarce.
The lion father is obviously also thinking about the issue of eating.
Without waiting for all the living things in the house to be eaten, the lion father led the lion group to the south.
Yes, the lion group decided to leave the core area and migrate to the south. It should be because the lion father knew that there was food to eat in the southern territory.
Qiao Jin thought about this and could only think of leopards. Could it be that the lion father valued those leopards?
Facts proved that Qiao Jinnian had overestimated it, because the first people the lion father attacked were actually a group of baboons.
However, because of Da Zhuang, the lion father naturally could not eat Da Zhuang's tribe, but the other baboons could not be spared.
There are many baboon groups in the south, but the lion father seems to be a bit picky about food. It was mainly Reiner and Sister Sa who were hunting and ate some baboon meat.
But there was too little baboon meat, so the lions continued to explore the southern area for more food.
During their previous patrol, the lion father and his brother carefully observed the distribution of species in the territory. Now is the opportunity to find suitable prey.
When we arrived at the underground river area in the south, we found that the water levels of the rivers had indeed dropped during the dry season, and the rivers had turned into mud puddles.
In the few remaining puddles, there are many pelicans and various storks, eating the big fish that emerge and struggle in the mud.
Seeing the fish and big birds, the sub-adults instantly became excited and flew towards the small animals.
But obviously, these minors had too little experience and did not understand the danger of the quagmire, so they were intimidated by their mother's roar.
"Roar--" Sister Sa roared like a lion, scaring the children so much that they retreated one after another and dared not rush forward again.
Sister Sa walked up slowly, looked at the children, and tried to demonstrate to them, sharing her experience on how to hunt correctly in the mud.
This kind of quagmire kills many animals every year, but few carnivores fall into it. Generally, it is large herbivores that fall into it. That is because lions are very cautious. They will use their huge cat claws to test the softness and hardness of the quagmire, and then gradually approach the trapped animals and slowly bite the prey.
At this time, before they came to the mud pit to kill those animals, there were no animals that could not move at the scene. Sister Sa tried, stepping on the soft huge cat paws and the soft cushions, landing silently until she got close to the pelican. The big bird didn't even react, and was still stupidly looking down for big fish to eat.
Then, Sister Sa effortlessly opened her mouth and bit the silly bird into her mouth.
The pelican then began to flap its wings, opening its big mouth that could swallow the entire lion's head, and struggled weakly.
Sister Sa retreated calmly, stepping on the same ground she had just tested.
At this time, the pelican in her mouth was still alive, so she opened her mouth and placed the living prey in front of the children.
When the sub-adults saw the big bird still alive, they were so happy that they flew up and surrounded the big bird. They pawed it and bit it. It was unclear whether they were playing with the big bird or hunting it as prey.
The three lioness mothers watched their children playing with their prey with indulgence.
The two territorial lions stood on a high hillside, pressing their noses down and back, carefully sniffing the surroundings to make sure that there was only the scent of their own lion group here. They shook their ears back and forth to catch the tiny noises in the air to ensure that the surroundings were safe.
Once they find any strange intruders around who do not belong to this territory, they will immediately execute those blind intruders on the spot.
The pelican was almost going crazy. Being toyed with by so many large predators, it had long lost its temper. It couldn't fly away and finally died of depression.
Seeing that the prey was killed, the two young leaders called them Lei Bo and Lai Zhong, indicating that they were the two most capable lion cubs in the tribe.
In fact, these sub-adults mixed together all day long, and Qiao Jinnian couldn't tell who their mother was at all. But according to observation, Leiber was the male lion cub born to Sister Sa, that is, the offspring of Ryan, and Lai Zhong should have been born to Little Sister Sa, the offspring of Reiner.
Leiber is a male lion, but Lai Zhong is a female lion. Both of them are natural leaders. In the beginning, they were the first two to chase the prey. Gradually, because of their outstanding performance, they gained more authority among sub-adults and were followed by their brothers and sisters. The lions also admired the strong.
So now, the two of them automatically become little lions issuing teamwork instructions.
Leiber was the first to lie on the ground and bit the pelican's wing. He ended up getting a mouthful of feathers and spat out all the feathers in disgust, as if to let his brothers and sisters deal with the prey first.
Soon, he plucked all the useless feathers from the wings, and then allowed his brothers and sisters to start eating meat.
However, it was only at this time that the sub-adults discovered that this thing was originally very small. After plucking the hair, why was there only this little bit of meat?
Oh my god, who can eat this?
If you want to eat pelicans, you have to catch at least a hundred, right?
Leiber stuck out his tongue and looked at the almost negligible piece of meat on the ground. He felt like he had done a lot of useless work. He could only lick the corner of his mouth and found that there was a feather stuck on his mouth: "Ah poof——"
Leiber was so angry about the feather that he almost died. It also made him lose face in front of his brothers and sisters, so he sneezed loudly!
The little lion was so angry that he circled around, wishing he could bite all the big birds in the mud to death.
However, when he regained his senses, he realized that the bird was not edible at all.
Qiao Jinnian covered her mouth and laughed, not daring to laugh out loud, for fear of dampening the enthusiasm of these teenagers.
Looking at the lion father on the hillside, he looked at his children calmly, then continued to look into the distance, probably thinking about what to eat.
But Reiner, the father, was very immoral. He ran up to the sub-adult and started to laugh at his own children for eating this bird as a meal.
The boys and their fathers put their heads together and bit each other. It was both a game and a practice of hunting skills.
"Roar, woooo--" Lai Zhong opened his mouth and pretended to bite his father's face, but was slapped in return by his father.
The huge claws of an adult male lion are no joke. They are bigger than a sub-adult's face and can instantly beat the child into depression.
Realizing that his claws seemed a little too strong, Reiner began to lick his daughter's cheek guiltily to show affection.
Because the children are already two years old, the three female lions are not very protective of their cubs. After all, they are not real cubs and can still play with them.
If it were a cub a few months old, Reiner would definitely be bitten madly by Sa Xiaomei if he dared to play with the child like this.
Ryan walked forward and led the large group further south, probably because they saw something edible.
As she was walking, Qiao Jinnian heard a "moo" sound.
Sure enough, a buffalo was trapped in the mud in the south. It was unknown how many days the buffalo had been trapped in the mud. It was already dying and its face was full of despair.
Even when he saw his own lion group, he had no reaction and only called out in a low voice: "Moo——"
This time, without the need for the lioness mother to teach them again, the little lions used their claws to test the mud, and moved forward very carefully until they came in front of the buffalo. Then they lowered their heads and began to gnaw on various parts of the buffalo.
This was the first time they saw a living creature that was not struggling at all. They didn't expect that they didn't need to hunt during the dry season, as there would be living prey in the mud.
His own lion group was rather strange; the sub-adults did not have the rule of waiting for the territorial male lions to eat first. Ryan was also quite casual, after all, he had never lacked food.
This buffalo is very heavy, it is an adult buffalo, enough for the lion group to eat today.
When the sub-adults had eaten all that the buffalo could chew and there was nothing left to chew, they turned their attention to the elders in the family.
Several elders began to teach them how to pull the prey out of the mud.
Sister Sa was still the leader, biting the buffalo's face with her mouth and dragging it backwards, but the mud was very deep and it required the strength of at least three adult lions.
Sa Xiaomei and Sa Zhua Zhua also stepped forward and bit the buffalo's legs and horns respectively. With one move of the three female lions, the entire buffalo was completely pulled out of the quagmire.
This time, the sub-adults did not eat and waited for the elders in the family to eat first. They squatted obediently on the side and watched the three female lions start eating.
Dad and brother were not in a hurry. They lay down by the mud puddle, watching their family members and taking a rest.
Seeing that the lions had no intention of eating the big birds, the big birds that were looking for fish by the mud pit came back to continue looking for food.
After all the family members had eaten, Ryan and Reiner walked over, lay on the ground and slowly began to eat, preparing to eat all the remaining meat so that they could continue on their journey.
Last time, the father and son lions came as far as this when they were on patrol. Qiao Jinnian felt that the lion father seemed to want to go further south.
Maybe he saw what was happening in the distance from the high slope and decided to go and investigate.
Compared to long-distance migration, exploring around your own home is obviously much safer.
But this time, Qiao Jinnian saw the figures of the old man and the young man again. It turned out that they had been staying on the edge of their own lion group's territory...
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