Chapter 92 Four Cubs
As a leopard with super mobility, Ye Yunian of course left as soon as he said he would.
Ye Yunian raised his chin towards Song Yi.
Song Yi immediately understood and quickly followed Ye Yunian.
Andrew stood there, looking at his cubs in a daze.
Huh?
Didn't you just want to find Angela?
This time you were convinced by me and didn't go, but where are you going now?
Andrew called out to Ye Yunian in confusion.
Ye Yunian turned around, ran to his father leopard in small steps, rubbed his father leopard with his big furry head, and hummed in his mouth.
Sorry, my father leopard, I wronged you.
So now I decided to go out and find something delicious for my mother leopard!
Of course.
If there are enough ostrich eggs, they can be brought back to share with you.
Andrew felt very comfortable being rubbed by the cub, and his mood became cheerful.
The cub is not small now, and can go out to play independently. Since he wants to go out, let him go. As long as he does not leave his own territory, there will be no danger.
The only problem is that Andrew cannot go with the cub now.
After all, Angela's birth is still a very important thing. Although Andrew cannot get too close, he cannot be too far away either.
So Andrew licked the cub's head hair and motioned him to go.
Ye Yunian rubbed Andrew again, and then walked to Song Yi's side.
Seeing this, the third brother was also eager to try.
But he was not as courageous as his own brother, and he glanced at Maria with some hesitation.
Maria stared at her youngest son without expressing any opinion.
So the third son hesitated and thought for a while, and when Ye Yunian and Song Yi were about to disappear in the tall grass, he quickly jumped down from the tree.
"Awooo awooo--"
Wait for me!
The three leopards walked all the way to the edge of Andrew's territory.
The sky gradually darkened, and the setting sun cast a soft glow on the grassland.
Ye Yunian sniffed the air around him and began to look for traces of ostriches along the grass.
There are many animals living on the African savannah, which has left many traces of animals on this grassland.
It is not an easy task to accurately distinguish the scent left by the ostrich from so many smells.
But this did not pose a problem for Ye Yunian.
Soon, the experienced leopard found the scent left by the ostrich.
Song Yi and Lao San followed behind Ye Yunian. They followed the scent of the ostrich all the way and soon found the trace of an ostrich.
Ye Yunian was the first to lie down in the haystack, observing the situation in the distance.
Female ostriches can produce about 8-14 eggs each time. During the day, the female ostrich is responsible for incubating the eggs, and at night this burden is handed over to the male.
The height of an adult male ostrich can reach about 2.8 meters, and its body size is much larger than a leopard.
It is not an easy task to hunt down such a creature, at least for Ye Yunian now.
But Ye Yunian had never thought about hunting the ostrich. They were just here to pick up eggs!
And they wouldn't ask for more. After all, they only had three leopards, and they were lucky to take away three eggs.
So the key now was how to attract the attention of the male ostrich, and then attack its nest.
While Ye Yunian was observing and thinking, Song Yi and Lao San lay obediently behind Ye Yunian.
Lao San was observing Ye Yunian carefully, while Song Yi was observing the surroundings.
Suddenly, Ye Yunian felt Song Yi scratching him with his claws.
Ye Yunian turned around with a little confusion, and saw Song Yi staring straight in one direction.
Ye Yunian looked over and his eyes suddenly lit up.
Flathead brother!
Why are you here again!
Ye Yunian's eyes rolled and a plan came to mind.
Ostrich are large and run very fast. If they rashly provoke the male that is still incubating eggs, they will definitely not get any benefits.
But if they change another animal to harass and provoke, they will reap the benefits.
Ye Yunian simply turned around and motioned Song Yi and Lao San to climb up the tree.
When Song Yi saw the honey badger, he guessed what Ye Yunian wanted to do.
But the honey badger is not so easy to provoke, so Song Yi shook his head and refused without thinking.
No!
He wants to go with Ye Yunian.
Ye Yunian thought about it and simply nodded.
Song Yi is now almost one year old, and he is no longer the cub who needed protection last year.
With Song Yi's participation, perhaps today's plan will be more successful.
But the third brother's words -
Ye Yunian glanced at the third brother and found that his eyes were also sparkling.
Okay.
As expected of Song Yi's brother, he is also very interested in this kind of thing.
So Ye Yunian simply deployed his plan with everyone, and then rushed towards the flat-headed brother first.
The flat-headed brother always comes out to find food at night. It just came out today, and before it had time to find its own food, it saw a leopard suddenly rushing in front of it.
The flat-headed brother was suddenly a little annoyed.
These leopards are really annoying!
Without thinking, it aimed its head at Ye Yunian, ready to knock Ye Yunian upside down.
Who would have thought that the next second, Ye Yunian turned around and ran.
The flat-headed brother is a hot-tempered and bad guy, how could he just watch Ye Yunian run away?
It chased after it without hesitation.
Ye Yunian took the angry honey badger and ran towards the male ostrich's nest.
The nest built by the female ostrich was near a flat bush. With the natural protection of the bush and the careful care of the ostrich parents, their cubs could be born more safely.
But no one expected that Ye Yunian, a leopard, would rush straight towards them with the honey badger behind him.
Generally speaking, ostriches are reluctant to provoke honey badgers. After all,
everyone knows that they have bad tempers and are stubborn donkeys.
But this does not mean that ostriches will be afraid of them.
When Ye Yunian and the honey badger rushed over, the male ostrich gave them a sharp warning and spread its two large wings that could not fly to show off.
Ye Yunian would not be scared.
The honey badger was already in a bad mood at the moment, and when it saw the ostrich still spread its wings to threaten it, it became even angrier and rushed towards the male ostrich without thinking.
Very good!
Everything is going perfectly according to Ye Yunian's plan!
Ye Yunian took advantage of the honey badger rushing towards the male ostrich to stop and jump into the bushes next to him and hide.
He was waiting for the most appropriate opportunity. As long as the male ostrich stood up after being harassed by the honey badger, that would be the right time for him to launch a sneak attack!
In the other two directions, Song Yi and Lao San also ambushed separately.
Ye Yunian's plan for them was not to fight head-on, but to wait until the male ostrich stood up before taking action.
Song Yi had his own judgment.
Lao San was a fairly obedient leopard.
The two little ones were lying quietly in the haystack at this moment, watching calmly as the honey badger kept bumping into the male ostrich.
Finally.
The male ostrich was enraged. He stood up directly by flapping his huge wings, and then rushed towards the honey badger quickly.
The flat-headed fox was not afraid of the ostrich. It was about to rush towards the ostrich, and then it was stepped on the ground by the ostrich -
that's when it happened!
Ye Yunian quickly jumped out of the haystack, followed closely by Song Yi and Lao San.
Ostrich eggs are very large, and they are round and smooth in shape, so it is basically impossible to pick up an ostrich egg with teeth.
So when Ye Yunian arrived at the nest, he stretched out his paw pad without hesitation and pulled out an egg.
Song Yi and Lao San also rushed to the front at this time, imitating Ye Yunian's movements and pulling out an egg each.
Hurry up!
Ye Yunian winked at Song Yi and Lao San.
They had to roll the eggs and run away before the ostrich came back.
Fortunately, for cats, spheres are their natural toys.
Even without Ye Yunian's teaching, Song Yi and Lao San quickly adapted to how to roll the eggs.
While the male ostrich was still confronting the honey badger, the three leopards rolled the eggs and quickly slipped away from the vicinity of the ostrich's nest.
As they got farther and farther away from the ostrich's nest, they became safer.
On the way back, the three leopards caught an ostrich egg each.
The hard ostrich eggs would not break easily, so the three leopards started playing with them as they rolled them.
When they reached a small slope, Lao San loosened his claws and the ostrich egg rolled down quickly.
At the same time, the third child also quickly caught up.
While chasing the third child, he did not forget to control the direction of the ostrich eggs with his claws.
Don't deviate!
Ye Yunian also found it interesting and started playing with Song Yi.
When the three leopards returned to the woods where they lived, it was already midnight.
Andrew did not sleep all night tonight.
Not only because Ye Yunian and the two cubs had not returned yet, but also because tonight was Angela's birth day.
Andrew needed to keep an eye on Angela's situation at all times to ensure her safety.
So even if he was a little worried about the cubs, he couldn't go out to look for them.
Seeing the three cubs come back safely with three round ostrich eggs, Andrew was a little curious and quickly jumped down from the tree to check them one by one.
Ye Yunian rolled one of the eggs to Andrew without hesitation.
This egg is for Angela!
Ye Yunian howled at Andrew a few times.
Andrew looked at Ye Yunian, understood what he meant, nodded gently, and then used his big paw pad to hold down the ostrich egg that wanted to continue rolling.
"Awooo--"
Not today.
Andrew will give this egg to Angela when he delivers food to her in two days.
Ye Yunian nodded, and then rolled another egg to Andrew.
This one is for Andrew and Maria!
The remaining egg is for Ye Yunian, Song Yi and the third child.
Andrew received the gift from Ye Yunian, staring at the two eggs under his feet, with a rare look of confusion on his face.
Of course, he also knew that ostrich eggs were good things, but they could not be bitten open with teeth.
How to eat ostrich eggs?
At this time, Maria also came down from the tree.
Seeing Andrew's eyes looking over, Maria walked forward and scratched the ostrich egg with her claws.
She scratched it left and right, but the ostrich egg did not crack at all.
Maria didn't know what to do with it.
Seeing this, Ye Yunian stepped forward.
Let me do it, it's super easy!
Ye Yunian looked around and soon saw a relatively large stone under a tree.
After estimating the approximate distance in his mind, Ye Yunian rolled the ostrich egg under his feet quickly towards the stone.
During this period, Ye Yunian also controlled the direction twice so that the ostrich egg could hit the stone smoothly.
After hearing a crisp click, all the leopards present smelled a smell they had never smelled before.
A little fishy, but more fragrant.
Ye Yunian went over and confirmed that the ostrich egg had been cracked by him, and then he opened his mouth and bit the crack a little bigger.
Before the egg liquid flowed out, Ye Yunian quickly licked it twice, and then he couldn't wait to call Song Yi and Lao San.
Why are you still standing there!
Come and eat together!
Song Yi and Lao San ran over quickly, licked the egg liquid, and then bit the ostrich egg shell a little harder with Ye Yunian.
The ostrich egg liquid was fragrant and slippery, and the taste was a little strange, but Song Yi and Lao San didn't dislike the taste, and they ate it sweetly with Ye Yunian.
Andrew and Maria on the side saw this and knew what to do.
Andrew rolled the ostrich egg and smashed it in the same way as Ye Yunian, and then shared the ostrich egg with Maria.
Although an ostrich egg looks big, it is not enough for so many leopards to eat it together.
After eating the eggs, the leopards were all a little reluctant to leave.
But no one touched the egg left for Angela.
Andrew licked the egg liquid on the corner of his mouth.
Originally, he was going to wait two days before looking for Angela, but now it seemed that he had to deliver the egg to Angela as soon as possible.
So at dawn the next day, Andrew set out with the egg.
Ye Yunian noticed Andrew's movements and knew that he was going to deliver the ostrich egg to Angela again, so he closed his eyes with peace of mind.
Naturally, the fact that Andrew went to Angela's nest was not hidden from the photographers.
Seeing that Angela actually allowed Andrew to approach her nest, the photographers were surprised and happy.
"It seems that Angela trusts Andrew very much!"
"Yes, after all, Andrew is a very responsible leopard!"
"Does that mean that Angela will not leave with the cub?"
The photographers present were silent for a moment.
Although they also hoped that things would develop in this way, they dared not guarantee it before everything was confirmed. They
could only pray silently in their hearts that Angela would remember Andrew and the benefits of being in the leopard group, and not leave the leopard group to raise the cub alone.
In the following period of time, Andrew would visit Angela every now and then.
Every time he went, this mature and reliable leopard would bring Angela plenty of food.
Because of these foods, Angela didn't even go out to hunt during her lactation period.
One morning, after Angela came out of the cave, two more naughty cubs followed her out.
The photographers certainly wouldn't miss such a wonderful moment.
The video was very clear, and the two cubs in the center of the picture were round and chubby, and they were well-fed!
The photographers were very happy.
It won't be long before this litter of cubs can leave the cave.
Not only the photographers look forward to Angela bringing the cubs out every day, Ye Yunian is also looking forward to it.
Time flies and another half a month has passed.
Recently, the weather has become drier, and the temperature during the day and at night has dropped a lot.
Ye Yunian walked around Andrew's territory and found that the water source in the territory was gradually decreasing recently.
Fortunately, there was a river not far from Andrew's territory, so there was no animal migration for the time being.
As long as their food did not move, Ye Yunian and his team naturally did not need to migrate.
Ye Yunian walked around the territory and caught a little wild rabbit.
The rabbit was very small, probably only a few months old.
Ye Yunian was quite surprised to catch it, so he did not kill it, but took it to find Song Yi.
On the way back, Ye Yunian suddenly smelled a familiar smell -
Angela!
There were several other smells, were they cubs?
Ye Yunian suddenly became excited and started running with the hare in his mouth.
As the distance got closer, Ye Yunian finally saw Angela, whom he hadn't seen for a month, and the four cubs surrounding her timidly.
Four cubs!
Ye Yunian's eyes lit up again and again.
Fearing that he would scare the cubs, Ye Yunian did not approach Angela at the first time, but tilted his head towards Angela to ask for her opinion.
Angela hadn't seen her precious cubs for a long time.
Seeing Ye Yunian at this time, Angela was a little excited, and hurriedly called Ye Yunian twice, and her tail was wagging happily.
Ye Yunian knew that this was Angela's signal for him to get closer.
So Ye Yunian did not hesitate any more, and ran towards Angela with a cheerful step.
"Awoo--"
Ye Yunian did not even put down the hare in his mouth, and rushed to Angela, and excitedly snuggled with Angela.
"Awoo--"
Angela, I miss you so much!
Angela also missed her cubs.
Although she has given birth to a litter of cubs now, Ye Yunian is different in her heart.
The mother and son were intimate for a long time, and Ye Yunian finally turned his attention to the four cubs next to him.
The four cubs were obviously a little confused at this time.
Leopards are born solitary animals. The cubs have just come into this world, and naturally think that they should live with their mother forever.
But what is the situation now?
Why did they see so many leopards at once?
Andrew and Ye Yunian were fine.
The cubs could smell the blood connection on them and knew that they were their relatives, so they were not very afraid of Ye Yunian and Andrew.
But the other three leopards really had no blood relationship with them!
Would they really not kill them?
Especially the black panther that looked a bit fierce.
The cubs' intuition told them that this black panther didn't like them very much.
Ye Yunian couldn't wait to pet the cubs.
Seeing the four cubs standing there stupidly, he quickly threw the hare in his mouth in front of them.
A meeting gift for you!
Do you like it?
The cubs are very sensitive to emotions. They knew that Ye Yunian liked them very much, so they were not at all wary of Ye Yunian's approach.
But the hare that fell from the sky still scared the cubs.
One of the cubs even screamed in fear.
Seeing this, Song Yi looked even more unhappy.
That was a gift from Yunian to them, and they were scared by it. They were all cowards!
The cowardly cubs were not scared for too long, because they soon found that this jumping hare was very interesting.
So after the four cubs greeted Ye Yunian respectively, they began to chase the hare and play.
A hare of this size is even smaller than the cubs, so there is no need to worry that the hare will hurt the cubs.
Andrew, who was not far away, watched this scene with relief in his eyes.
Very good.
Whether it is these four cubs who have just turned one month old or the cubs who are almost adults, they are all very cute!
Andrew likes them very much.
Before Ye Yunian came back, he had already played with the cubs one by one.
So it’s time to get down to business -
the leopard group suddenly added four members. Although they are still breastfeeding, hunting is urgent!
Andrew was very motivated, and then called Ye Yunian to go with him.
Ye Yunian would certainly not refuse. This is not only hunting for his younger brothers and sisters, but also hunting for his mother leopard!
Ye Yunian turned his head and looked at Song Yi with starry eyes.
Of course Song Yi would not refuse, he followed Ye Yunian without hesitation, and the third child was also with him.
Raising cubs is very interesting.
Ye Yunian and Andrew are both leopards who like cubs very much.
Every time the cubs finish feeding and bask in the sun on the grass, Ye Yunian and Andrew will walk up to them and lie down directly.
There is no need for Ye Yunian and Andrew to tease them, the cubs who are curious about everything will take the initiative to come forward and start jumping around Ye Yunian and Andrew.
Ye Yunian will also deliberately use his tail to make the cubs jump left and right, which is very fun.
Of course.
The most interesting thing is to sleep with the cubs.
The soft cubs have a faint smell of milk on their bodies.
What Ye Yunian likes most is to bury his head in the cubs and suck them hard.
Wow.
It's so fun to suck cats!
I like it!
It's interesting!
If Ye Yunian must find a flaw,
it's probably that Song Yi really hates these four cubs recently. Every time Ye Yunian sucks the cubs, he has to coax them for a while before he can coax Song Yi to open his belly to Ye Yunian again.
Ye Yunian is a little helpless and funny about this.
Why does Song Yi always like to be jealous of the cubs!
Obviously Song Yi is his most important leopard!
That evening, Ye Yunian coaxed the jealous Song Yi again. He held Song Yi's big head, licked Song Yi's fur, and talked to Song Yi.
It's nothing more than:
I like Song Yi the most!
You are the most handsome leopard!
The cubs are just my little brothers. I will definitely sleep with them less often in the future!
Then the next second, the cubs’ frightened cries suddenly came from the bushes under the tree.
Ye Yunian stood up suddenly. It was Xiaoxiao’s cry!
Could it be that he encountered some danger?
Without thinking, Ye Yunian jumped down from the tree in two steps and burrowed into the bushes.
"Awooo?"
What's the matter?
The only advantage of lying on the tree is that the vision is very good.
So at this moment, Song Yi watched with his own eyes as Ye Yunian carefully picked up Xiaoxiao and put him under his belly to comfort him.
Song Yi: ...
These guys are already three months old! Just because they kicked their feet in a sleep, they cried out in grievance?
When I was a kid, I wasn't as spoiled as them!
Song Yi was a little angry.
At the same time, he was thinking that it seemed like it was time for him to leave the group with his younger brother!
But what Song Yi never expected was that the one who left their leopard group earlier than him would be the third brother.