Chapter 15 South China Tiger (XV)
After Mulan recovered some strength, she left the hunted deer where it was.
She cleaned the blood off her face with her paws, and without taking a rest, she continued back to the bushes by the river with her cub.
It wasn't that Mulan was full and didn't want to eat right away.
As an experienced tiger, she knew clearly that to teach cubs to hunt, they must be taught while they are hungry.
Hunger will stimulate the bloodiness and hunting instinct of the beast, making his need for prey more urgent.
If the cubs eat too much, their enthusiasm for learning will be greatly reduced.
Night had fallen, making the tiger's ambush more difficult to detect.
This time, they were lucky enough, and another little muntjac came to the river to drink water.
Yu Yiyun imitated Mulan, trying hard to smell and judge the prey by the smell.
——What a sin.
Isn't this the one that didn't get to drink the water just now? !
It was attacked from both sides by two tigers, but after narrowly escaping, it still dared to come to the river bank to drink water.
You really don't take the tiger seriously!
Mulan also recognized the little muntjac. She gently called out to the tiger cub and quickly jumped out.
The little muntjac never dreamed that he would encounter a tiger twice in one day.
How many bad things did I do in my previous life!!!
Fortunately, the Tiger Lord just blocked the way like last time and did not launch an attack.
The little muntjac already had experience, and ran quickly towards the bushes, intending to jump over them like it did during the day.
As a result, the little tiger that emerged from the bushes was obviously prepared.
He did not launch an attack immediately, but instead took a posture to gather strength and judge which direction the muntjac would escape from.
The little muntjac panicked and slowed down significantly.
Yu Yiyun seized the opportunity, leaped forward, and tried to imitate Mulan and bite its spine from the side.
However, Mulan took that attack because the wild deer was tall and large enough.
The young muntjac is a small deer animal, only about half a meter tall. It is impossible for it to allow a tiger cub, which is several times heavier than itself, to hang on its body.
The tiger cub pounced over and immediately crushed the little muntjac.
Because of this, Yu Yiyun bit off the target and failed to break the spine.
The injured little muntjac suddenly burst out with a strong desire to survive. It struggled to escape from under the tiger cub and ran away as fast as it could.
"Ahhh!" The beast blood in the tiger cub awakened. He rolled over on the spot and was about to run after it.
"Roar!" Mulan, who was watching the fight from a distance, shouted to her cub to stop.
Mulan, who is experienced in combat, has already guessed what will happen next.
The little muntjac was injured and terribly frightened, so it would definitely run away at all costs.
With the tiger cub's current speed, even if it can catch up at the beginning, it will gradually be left behind due to its lack of endurance.
For the South China tiger, a chase is always the worst option.
The hunting success rate of wild South China tigers is only about 10%.
Even Mulan had more failures than successes.
She didn't expect the tiger cub to learn hunting in one day, but today's performance was already satisfactory.
"Huh." Never mind, let's eat first.
"Ah~" Yu Yiyun, who was tired and hungry, shook his tail, ran to his aunt, and rubbed her affectionately.
Dinner was delicious wild venison. Although it was a little cold from being left out for too long, it did not affect the taste at all.
After eating and drinking, Mulan yawned, then lay down next to the remaining wild deer and fell asleep.
Now that spring has arrived and the cubs have grown up, the queen has resumed her habit of "sleeping where she eats."
After eating the venison, Yu Yiyun licked her paws and face carefully. She did not lie down beside her aunt to sleep, but turned around and left quietly.
He came to the river alone, lurking in the bushes, waiting intently for his prey to appear.
Judging from the results of the day’s training, the tiger cub seems to be able to bite the prey and is just a little bit away from a successful hunt.
However, Yu Yiyun's years of experience in catching chickens told her that she was still far from perfect.
Most of the credit for his being able to bite the prey goes to Mulan, who blocked the prey's escape route.
Tigers are solitary animals, and when they are actually hunting, they don’t have strong reinforcements to support them from behind.
Yu Yiyun must learn to rely on his own strength to judge the movements of his prey so that he can kill it with one strike.
The jungle at night is not quiet, as there are many nocturnal animals drinking water and foraging for food outside.
Yu Yiyun patiently stayed there for a whole night, encountering more than one musk deer, young muntjacs, and gorals.
The brave little tiger jumped out from the bushes again and again and attacked its prey alone.
However, the prey he selected, although they had no weapons to defend themselves against tigers, were all without exception—
Run very fast!
Running is the greatest weapon of even-toed ungulates.
Yu Yiyun tried again and again, and failed again and again, which greatly reduced the hunting success rate of the South China tiger.
Excuse me.
The whole family lost face overnight.
The tiger cub didn't know that all his actions were faithfully recorded by the unmanned camera.
The rewilding team edited the video and uploaded it to the official account.
At first, netizens who saw the video were laughing and making fun of a certain national first-class protected waste, which had short legs and could not catch prey.
As time went by, more and more people heard cheering for the tiger cub.
[Is there a counter? How many times? ]
[This is the 23rd time. The closest time to success was when I bit the sheep's hoof and got kicked]
[Although I know it is normal to fail in hunting, I still feel sorry for the fat cub]
[He is so brave. If I had this kind of perseverance, I would succeed in everything I do.]
[+1, even though he was kicked several meters away, he still bravely pounced on the goral when he saw it later]
[I really feel sorry for Fat Tiger, but it is a good thing for him to gain more experience now. When he grows up, he will starve if he fails to catch prey without Sister Lan to back him up.]
[Ah? Fat Tiger, are you going to leave Sister Lan? Wuuuuu, no.]
[Don't worry too much, Fat Tiger's parents. Tigers usually leave home when they are two years old. Sister Lan dotes on little Fat Tiger so much that she won't chase him away right away! ]
After a whole night of failure, with nothing gained and a kick, Fat Tiger was tired and hungry, and just wanted to go back to Mulan and sleep as soon as possible.
I chased the musk deer too far just now and almost reached the easternmost part of Mulan's territory.
Yu Yijun hung his tail and turned around dejectedly, when he suddenly heard a tiger roar that shook the entire valley.
The roar came from the east and was very unfamiliar. It was not the tiger he knew.
Yu Yijun quickly turned around and looked in the direction of the voice, his animal eyes filled with shock and helplessness.
——That territory originally belonged to Kang Kang.
In the mother's territory, a tiger roar was heard, declaring its sovereignty.
Could it be that mom came back early?
Yu Yiyun immediately put aside his sleepiness and ran towards the direction of the rising sun.
There was still some distance to Kang Kang’s territory, so he stopped in time.
The one who roared like a tiger was not Kang Kang.
The mother's smell is relatively mild and not so aggressive.
The one who occupied his home was an adult male tiger.
Yu Yiyun squatted on the spot, feeling exhausted and disappointed. He was breathing heavily and thinking about which tiger had stolen his home.
The South China Tiger Reserve is divided into two parts: Hedong and Hexi.
The river in the middle is very wide and it takes a lot of energy to swim across.
Tigers from the east and west of the river will not easily visit each other except during the breeding season (the exception is the cattle-stealing tiger in Zhen'an).
Hexi is a smaller area, with a total of five female tigers and two male tigers.
In addition to Zhen'an, the other male tiger is called Qingqing.
A male tiger that meets the wilding standards must be strong and handsome, suitable to be a breeding tiger, and Qingqing is no exception.
It's a pity that he has such bad luck.
After half a year in the wild, Qingqing has not yet reached sexual maturity.
Zhen'an, the master of time management, has already seduced the four tigresses in Hexi.
Three of the tigresses moved into Zhen'an's territory, leaving only Mulan and Kang Kang as the only tigresses left outside.
Qingqing couldn't beat Mulan, let alone the tiger who crossed the river just for Kang Kang.
Every spring and autumn, Qingqing would leave the territory and wander alone, hoping to find the destined tiger.
Most likely he wandered into Kang Kang’s territory and found no tigers there, so he occupied that territory.
The tiger cub curled up its tail dejectedly, turned its head, and walked back to its aunt's house sadly.
He was not even a year old yet and was too weak to wrest his mother's territory back from the claws of an adult male tiger.
Besides, Mom doesn't necessarily need him to take back her territory.
The territories of female tigers and male tigers can overlap.
What if Kang Kang is willing to accept Qing Qing?
At that time, the tiger cubs that do not belong to Qingqing's bloodline will become redundant tigers.
——How can that be possible!!!
When Yu Yiyun thought of this, his inner universe exploded again.
Who wants to be a tiger without a mother?
Why are you sleeping?
I'm so strong now!!!
The tiger cub returned home, swept away all his previous fatigue, and hid in the bushes by the river again.
Musk deer, young muntjacs, and gorals, all tremble!
The strongest predator in Qinling Mountains is about to be born!
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