Chapter 57 Kruger Lion (IV)
For a Mama's Boy, eight months is still the age when he can play around carefree and wait for his mother and aunts to bring back the prey.
As the saying goes, two cats have different fates. The eight-month-old leopard cub is already learning hunting and various survival experiences from its mother.
What's more, the two fat cats, Zhumi and Chouchou, are much fatter than the eight-month-old little leopard.
Judging by Cheetah standards, they should have been kicked out long ago.
Fortunately, Dian Guang has a very strong maternal instinct. The cub she just picked up is not yet warm, so she has no plans to clean up the house for the time being.
As a cheetah, it naturally maintains the habits of a cheetah when raising its cubs, and starts training its babies' "hunting" skills early on.
After only a few days of teaching, the three cats said they were very tired.
Compared with other cats, the cheetah's hunting technique is simple and crude, mainly relying on high-speed running.
As long as you run faster than your prey, which runs at 100 kilometers per hour, you can get food.
Therefore, there is only one principle that cheetah mothers teach their cubs:
Really let your children win at the starting line!
Yu Yiyun and her stupid brother practiced running diligently day and night under the guidance of Baobao.
After repeated and many times of practice, they have become the veritable sprint champions of the Lion Kindergarten Sports Meet, surpassing most of their peers in speed.
Dian Guang still had a disappointed expression on his face, as if asking, "Why did you two get the last place in the exam again?"
Dian Guang: Their peak speed is only half of mine. These two are useless.
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"Mia~"
Chouchou noticed that his mommy was very disappointed in him, so he leaned over with a suffocating voice, tucked in his paws, turned over his belly and acted coquettishly, blinking his animal eyes with long eyelashes, trying to get away with it by being cute.
Dian Guang has raised him for more than half a month and has become accustomed to Chouchou's behavior of acting like a spoiled brat all the time and looking like he is worthless.
Leopard's face was full of indifference, and he was indifferent to the little dirty cat rolling around and acting cute.
Lions have extremely poor endurance and can only maintain a full-speed run of about 200 meters at most.
Yu Yiyun maintained the maximum speed of a lion and tried to run for half a kilometer. He was so tired that he was panting and hot all over, and subconsciously stuck out his tongue to cool down.
The photographer in the distance immediately pressed the shutter and muttered quietly, "I've never seen such a mean lion."
After panting for a few minutes, Zhumi realized that he had not changed his dog habits and they had become body memories.
He looked around quietly and found that no beast was paying attention. He silently retracted his tongue into his mouth and walked to the lightning with an elegant cat step and rubbed it.
"Meow~" Beautiful leopard, here I come!
"Meow~" Good boy, stick with me~
Dian Guang's attitude immediately changed 180 degrees. He rubbed the little white lion affectionately, causing the neglected Chouchou to open his eyes wide and instantly begin to doubt his cat life.
It’s fine if the new mother treats people unfairly, but could she not be so blatant?
We are all foreign species, why? !
"Meow~" Dian Guang hugged the clean little white lion, licked his fur affectionately, and felt very happy.
My baby is so clean and smells so good.
Unlike the other one, it would slip out to eat shit if you weren't paying attention.
He often eats overnight food, and he can't even eat it when he licks his fur!
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If Chouchou knew what his new mother was thinking, he would definitely vomit out all the rotten meat in his stomach and swear never to eat shit again in his life!
In addition to daily hunting exercises, Dian Guang also patrols the territory with his two cubs, marking the "newspaper tree" to send messages to other leopards.
Newspaper trees are like cheetah bulletin boards, used to mark territory or convey courtship messages.
The territory of a female cheetah is relatively small, and her patrol route is only a few thousand meters. It only takes half an hour to walk around the territory. Yu Yiyun, who likes to fool around, is certainly not satisfied.
While Leopard and his stinky little brother were sleeping, he wandered around alone.
The grassland has an open terrain and you can use the sun to locate yourself at any time, so it is not easy to get lost.
Yu Yiyun used her natural skill of being agile and good at hiding, and within two days she had a thorough understanding of the surrounding environment.
The area where he is currently located is along a '∩'-shaped river running east-west.
The river is less than fifty kilometers long, but has two east banks, two west banks, and a south bank and a north bank in the middle.
It is the only river within a radius of hundreds of kilometers that supplies water all year round.
During the dry season, the lions' main prey, such as African buffalo, zebra, and impala, are concentrated on both sides of the river.
The Kruger lion, the continent's top hunter, controls the entire river.
There are six and a half lion groups distributed from the upper reaches of the river to the lower reaches.
Yu Yiyun simply named them the Upper East Bank, Lower East Bank, Upper West Bank, Lower West Bank, South Bank, North Bank, and the wandering lion group according to their geographical locations.
The lion group that Yu Yijun originally belonged to was located on the lower west bank.
The lower reaches of the river are narrow, the water is turbid and the amount of water is small. There is a risk of drying up in the dry season, and prey is relatively scarce.
The Lower West Coast lion group is the weakest among the several lion groups.
Dian Guang's territory is far away from all the lion groups and is located in the central area of '∩'.
Although it is far away from the river and hunting is relatively difficult, it avoids conflicts with lion groups.
Even so, Dian Guang still couldn't completely avoid the lion group.
In addition to hunting, animals have another survival need: drinking water.
The nearby water source is completely controlled by the lion group, making other animals feel terrified when drinking water.
The sun gradually rose, and the scorched earth became hot to the touch.
Most nocturnal animals choose to sleep in their nests or under the shade of trees.
Only at this time would Dianguang dare to take his cubs to the river to drink water.
This is the way of survival that the smart Leopard has figured out through years of experience!
You just need to endure the scorching midday sun to avoid most enemy animals and get water smoothly.
If you are lucky, you can have the river all to yourself, like today.
The middle section of the river was quiet, even the big hippopotamus that had been soaking in it came ashore because it felt too hot.
Yu Yiyun finally saw the river and felt very familiar with it. He jumped over and drank and washed at the same time.
Most savannah lions don't like water. Getting their paws and manes wet will make their bodies heavier, affecting their hunting abilities and making the big cats feel insecure.
In the first two days, Yu Yiyun hated the feeling of her paws getting wet, and would shake her fur like crazy if they got a little wet.
Fortunately, his stupid brother washed the mysophobic cat's face with his mouth that had just eaten the rotten meat.
Unable to bear the stench on her face, Yu Yiyun used the remaining water in the pond to wash it twice.
That pond was dug out of thin air by African elephants for drinking water. It did not have the self-cleaning ability of flowing water. Later, it was enjoyed by countless small animals, and the only water was extremely polluted.
Instead of being clean, the pig became even dirtier.
He was new here and didn't know the activity patterns of African animals, so he didn't dare to venture to the river.
The first time he was brought to the riverbank by lightning, Yu Yiyun finally understood the profound meaning of "rain after a long drought".
Even though there was a hippo lying a hundred meters away, he still bravely jumped into the water and washed his paws and face clean.
Today, Big Brother Hippo went to take a bath somewhere else, and the crocodile went to date other crocodiles. The usually turbid river water became clear.
Yu Yiyun decisively jumped into the river, immersed her entire body in it, and happily performed the cat paddle with her paws.
The river water, scorched by the high temperature, was warm and comfortable enough that the tip of the pig's tail stretched out.
"Meow!" The cheetah guarding the shore was a little worried at first, fearing that the cub would drown in the shallow water half a meter deep.
With the exception of tigers, most big cats are afraid of water. Even the cleanest cats will only take a quick dip in the water on the hottest days.
Seeing the baby cub completely soaked in the water, Dianguang was briefly surprised for a few seconds, walked to the river bank, gently scratched the water surface with his claws, and quickly retracted it.
When all the hair on the body gets wet, it will inevitably affect the cheetah's running speed.
The leopard, who has no one to rely on and has many natural enemies, does not have the courage to challenge the bath for the time being.
It retracted its paws and squatted on the river bank, looking at Chouchou with encouraging eyes.
As long as you stay here, your child can take a bath without any worries.
Since the little white cat likes taking a bath so much, his brother should...
Chouchou stopped half a meter away from the river bank, afraid that his claws would touch the wet sand.
He lay down on the spot, stretched his head as far as possible, and used the tip of his tongue to hook the river water into his mouth.
The water leaking from the corner of his mouth touched his paws, and Chouchou was so scared that he immediately cried out and shook his paws vigorously.
"Wow!" I don't want to wash my feet!
Yu Yiyun, who was soaking in the river, heard Chou Chou's squeaking and meowing, and impatiently scooped up a handful of water, splashing it on his face like elementary school students fighting.
"Meow!" You eat stinky meat every day, wash it carefully!
"Woooooa ...
When Chou Chou's fur got wet, he was so scared that his throat clenched and he quickly spread his short legs and ran to the opposite side of the river bank.
After running a few steps, Chouchou seemed to notice something and ran back as fast as he could, hiding behind Dian Guang and trembling.
"Mee...mee!" Chouchou made a pitiful sound.
Dian Guang was very pleased.
The little cat just ran a few steps very quickly, proving that running training is effective. At least he can get the second to last place in Leopard School.
Thinking of this, Dian Guang looked at the little white lion with a worried look on his face.
Chouchou became the second to last, and Baobeiguaizai, who also ran very slowly, became the last.
well!
Both of them are poor students, so pitiful...
Yu Yiyun didn't feel any sympathy from Dian Guang at all.
Seeing Chouchou's reaction, Zhumi immediately climbed back to the shore, shook his fur, and looked over there vigilantly.
The hot wind brought a hint of familiar wild animal smell.
Yu Yiyun had two experiences of 'searching for enemies in the void', and tried hard to distinguish this familiar smell, attempting to find a matching object in the memory bank.
Unlike the previous two times, when Yu Yiyun first arrived at the grassland, he spent a few minutes with members of his native family and still remembered their smell.
Soon, Yu Yijun remembered that this was the smell of Tommy the Lion, the former lord of Lower West Coast, and their father.
After coming to this conclusion, Yu Yiyun breathed a sigh of relief.
It had not been long since they had been separated, so Tommy must have remembered the smell of his own child and would not have attacked his underage cub.
The problem is…
Yu Yiyun looked at Chouchou who was hiding behind Dian Guang, trying to use his slender leopard to block his huge body.
What?
You are a native lion, can't you recognize your own father?
After Tommy lost to the alliance of three lions who came to challenge him, he was forced to leave his territory and became a homeless wandering lion.
He was brutally attacked by three lions in their prime. Although his injuries were not fatal, the tip of his tail was bitten off and his right hind leg was lame.
The ecology of a lion pack is different from that of a wolf pack, and they will not provide food to injured male lions.
It’s not that lionesses don’t remember their old love, but 99% of them have no feelings for their ex-husbands.
When the male lion stays in the territory, he does not participate in hunting most of the time, but he is the first to enjoy the food brought back by the female lion.
Sometimes, a domineering male lion will even drive away the female lion and her cubs, and forbid the female lion from approaching the prey that he has worked so hard to bring back.
If a sub-adult lion cub disturbs the dominant male lion while he is eating, he may even be bitten to death by his own father.
The lion, the lord of the African grasslands, is like the "extreme scumbag" in the eyes of humans.
He doesn't do housework or take care of the children, lives off his wife every day, and is often violent towards his wife.
Therefore, if a stronger male lion challenges the lord lion, many female lions will not only not help, but will cheer for the enemy beast if the challenger is young and handsome.
Lioness: They are all scumbags anyway, I might as well find someone with good looks.
Tommy left the Lower West Coast territory in disgrace. The injuries on his body prevented him from hunting for the time being. He could only wait for the lions to eat their fill and then secretly eat a few bites of carrion to avoid starving to death.
A lion can survive for half a month without food, but can only survive for three days without water.
In order to survive, even though his wounds had not healed, Tommy still risked his life to go to the river bank to drink water.
Tommy smelled the scent of the little lion from afar and thought that his luck was too bad today as he encountered members of the lion group active by the river.
Just as he was about to drag his weak body away, he tasted it carefully again.
This taste...
My cub!!!
Tommy immediately quickened his pace and ran towards the river bank.
Compared with other lord lions, Tommy is definitely a dedicated father. He has never scolded the little lions for food. He usually plays with them and gives his tail to the little lions as an extra-large cat toy.
Upon noticing the invasion of stray lions, Tommy immediately checked on his little lions, only to find that they had already disappeared.
Tommy: …
All male lions, regardless of size, are scumbags!
While recovering from his injury, Tommy slowly moved from the lower west bank to the south bank.
On the one hand, it is to stay away from the lion group, and on the other hand, it is to find its own little lion.
Finally catching the scent of the cub, Tommy almost forgot that he was injured and ran over excitedly.
Unexpectedly, suddenly——
"Wow!"
Chouchou found that hiding was useless, as the lion's breath was getting closer and closer to him, so he ran out from behind Dian Guang, pounced on it bravely with open claws, and let out a milky roar.
When Dian Guang saw the lion, he was so scared that his tail tightened and his hair stood up.
After finding that the male lion was in very poor condition and posed almost no threat, he slowly relaxed and hugged the wet little white lion into his arms.
Yu Yiyun comforted Baobao and looked at Chouchou in confusion.
What?
This time I was able to recognize the beast, and it was my brother's turn to search for the enemy in the void.
The law of conservation of void search?
Chouchou pounced on Tommy and rammed his injured old father without mercy.
Although Tommy was hungry and seriously injured, he was still able to deal with the eight-month-old cub.
He pounced with his big paws, immediately pinning Chouchou to the ground and letting out a deafening lion roar.
"roar--!!!"
Even if a lion in its prime was injured in battle, its roar was still very powerful, frightening Yu Yiyun and Dian Guang, who were several hundred meters away, so much that their bodies trembled.
Although Chouchou's eyes were blurred by the roar, he still stubbornly got up and opened his mouth to bite his father's neck.
Tommy dragged his injured body to avoid it, and Chouchou fell down behind Tommy.
When he saw Tommy’s missing tail, Chouchou rolled over violently with an expression as if the sky had fallen.
"Meow!" Where is the fur ball?
"Meow meow meow!" Answer me, where is the fur ball on your tail? !
A cat toy without a fur ball is like instant noodles without a crust.
It's not just a soul-less problem, it doesn't even deserve to be called a tail.
Chouchou lay on the ground, observing carefully, digging up the sand with his claws, looking for the ball of fur that his father had hidden.
Of course, nothing was achieved.
If Chouchou had a human's facial expression system, he would definitely be crying now.
Yu Yiyun finally understood that the 'pure hatred between father and son' that she saw was the most common way that Chou Chou and Tommy got along with each other.
The little lion needs to grow up through fighting. After Chouchou was adopted by Dianguang, he was unable to play with his weak new mother.
Every time he wanted to practice wrestling with the little white lion, the nimble little white lion would always dodge and use "sinister" means to make Chouchou surrender.
After not playing for a whole half month, Chouchou almost went crazy.
Smelling his father's scent, he first felt the cub's fear of the male lion.
After confirming that his father was looking for him and his brother, Chouchou excitedly rushed over and greeted his father in the way lions do.
However, Tommy was too weak and half of his tail was missing.
Not only did Chouchou not have enough fun, but he also found out that his favorite toy was broken, and he kept his head down the whole way home.
Yu Yiyun was also deeply disappointed by the tail without a furry ball.
However, being able to reunite with my father was already a pleasant surprise.
For wild beasts, staying alive is more important than anything else.
As for the fur ball... at worst you can just pick two tufts of its bristles and tie them to its tail.
The problem is that Tommy is now too weak and has lost his hunting ability.
His hind leg was injured and it would take at least a month for him to recover, even if he had enough food.
A lion without companions to care for it and unable to hunt can only wait to die silently and then be eaten by other animals or its own kind.
Tommy accepted his fate.
No matter how many legends the lion king of the African continent writes, it is still difficult for him to have a good ending.
Being able to see two healthy and active sons in the countdown stage of life, Tommy has...
"Meow!" The little white lion ran to him and called out.
Before Tommy could come to his senses, the white lion skillfully whipped his legs with its tail, signaling the weak lion to follow him.
Tommy: ???
The former lion king looked confused and lowered his head to confirm the gender of the white lion.
He couldn't understand why his son was so good at the 'tail whip' that the lioness would use when she was extremely impatient.
Although both belong to the cat family, lions and tigers have different ways of raising their offspring.
A female tiger often raises cubs alone, with several cubs in a litter. If she encounters a naughty cub, she will use her tail to teach him a lesson.
Lions live in groups and share the responsibility of raising their cubs. Therefore, they are more tolerant of their cubs and will not easily use their tails to "domestic violence".
Yu Yiyun has raised numerous tiger cubs, so she is used to being a male mother and is naturally adept at guiding the felines with her tail.
When the lion didn't respond, he whipped his paw with his tail again.
What are you standing there for?
Come with me!
"..." The lion king was silent and confused for a few minutes, and the fear of being dominated by the lioness when he was a child came back again.
He got up reluctantly and followed the cub to a wild area far away from the lion group with almost no prey or wild beasts around.
Yu Yiyun did not take Tommy home.
The old father is seriously injured, but he is still an aggressive adult lion. He will affect Dian Guang's normal life and even cause stress to the sensitive cheetah.
Yu Yiyun had no intention of sharing Dian Guang’s prey with his old father.
It's already very hard for Leopard to raise two cubs with big appetites, and we can't add any more burden to it.
As for the food rations for the old father during his recovery?
"Meow!" Stinky!
Yu Yiyun called her stinky little brother and asked him where he ate every day.
"Meow~!" Chouchou's eyes lit up. He thought his brother, who had poor survival ability, was finally interested in the lion's 'normal food'.
He led the way proudly, his tail lifted in delight.
When they arrived at a relatively humid area with a few clusters of low shrubs, Chou Chou's movements became noticeably lighter and he turned around to signal Yu Yijun not to make any sound.
Yu Yijun immediately held her breath, hid behind Chou Chou, and tried her best to hide her overly conspicuous snow-white hair.
Not long after, he heard a series of noises.
The huge army of hyenas, at the call of the female leader, filed out to hunt.
Although hyenas do not belong to the canine family, they are as united as dogs and are extremely loyal to their leaders.
Moreover, female hyenas have a special body structure and possess external reproductive structures.
Only when it wishes to reproduce will it retract its external genitalia.
The rainy season has not yet arrived, and female hyenas will not choose to reproduce in the dry season. All members of the family are rushing for food.
After making sure that they had all left, Chouchou immediately took the white lion and sneaked into the hyenas' territory.
It is estimated that the "0 yuan purchase professionals" would never dream that one day they would be purchased by other animals for 0 yuan.
As it happens, the hyena army gathered near the Electric Light Territory has more than fifty family members, and they can even hunt wildebeests or old buffaloes when they go out as a group.
When fresh food is available, even scavengers will prioritize fresh meat, leaving behind the remains that were not eaten some time ago.
Not long after Yu Yijun entered the hyena's territory, he smelled a pungent stench. A zebra with only one leg left was lying there, its flesh had turned white.
The hyena responsible for guarding the house was wandering around, and probably because the smell of prey was too strong, it did not notice the two lions who had just finished taking a bath.
While the guarding hyena wasn't paying attention, Chou Chou picked up the remaining zebra leg and winked at Yu Yijun.
The pig was a little reluctant and cooperated by picking up the part with relatively intact fur.
The running skills that Dian Guang taught them were put to full use at this time.
By the time the guarding hyenas returned from patrol, the zebra's legs had disappeared without a trace.
Just when it was at a loss, it heard its companions cheering in victory: a wildebeest had been hunted today!
The hyenas were so overwhelmed by the joy of victory that they didn't notice their homes had been stolen.
Unexpectedly, this scene was captured in its entirety by the photographer, sparking heated discussions in human society.
I've never seen this before!
Big Brother Africa stole the house of Big Brother Africa!
Netizens have expressed their opinions one after another, saying "Big Cat, you have fallen", "Second brother, you have come to this day too", and "Hahahahahahahaha"!
Yu Yiyun and Chou Chou, who had successfully stolen the house, had returned to Tommy with their spoils.
A rotten zebra leg was not enough to fully restore Tommy's health.
At least it would allow him to regain basic mobility before the dry summer arrives.
The African continent is hot all year round, but even so, the summer is still particularly hot.
Summer in the Kruger region, with longer days and higher surface temperatures, is like purgatory for most animals.
However, just like winter in Yellowstone is wolf season.
Summer in Africa is the season for lions.
High temperatures and lack of water mean that herbivores can only gather near rivers to drink water.
The lions that firmly control the riverbank can catch prey right at their doorstep and do not have to struggle to find food.
"Meow."
Yu Yiyun sighed, feeling sad that they had the same cat but different fates.
Although summer is like an unlimited buffet in the territory of lions, stray lions do not have this benefit.
The concentration of herbivores along the riverbanks means that stray lions or cheetahs must risk invading the territories of other lion prides if they want to catch prey.
What's worse is that with the current fighting power of these few cats, there is no way they can go head-on with any large lion group.
--etc!
Yu Yiyun's light blue animal eyes suddenly lit up.
There are six and a half lion groups along the river. If they can't afford to mess with the first six, don't they still have the other half? !
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