Chapter 93 The black panther really pinned down their eldest cub and beat him up -
as Song Yi's brother, the third cub just turned one year and three months old this month.
Ordinary leopard cubs usually choose to leave their mother to live independently at around one and a half to two and a half years old. It is indeed a little early for the third cub to choose to leave the leopard group at this time.
But looking at the third cub's current size and hunting experience, he is actually not much worse than an adult leopard now.
Andrew's territory is large, so there are naturally many prey in his life.
In addition to Andrew's "pampering" education, Angela and Maria also hunt frequently, so the cubs are well raised by the three adult leopards.
Ye Yunian's body size has long been that of an adult leopard, while Song Yi and Lao San are only slightly smaller than an adult leopard.
In addition, after Andrew's hunting training for the entire rainy season, Lao San should have realized that he has the ability to live independently, so he made this choice.
Even as early as a month ago, Lao San had already shown some signs of leaving the leopard group, such as going out hunting alone.
It was just that Ye Yunian was obsessed with sucking cubs at the time, and Song Yi was around Ye Yunian every day, either jealous or not looking at the cubs straight in the eye. Ye Yunian
and Song Yi certainly noticed that Lao San went out hunting alone, but Lao San was not far away at the time and was still in Andrew's territory, so the two little leopards didn't take it seriously.
Maria did notice the changes in her youngest son.
But in Maria's opinion, this is understandable.
Leopards are solitary animals after all, and when the cubs grow up, they should leave their mothers and live alone.
The third child has learned hunting from Andrew for the entire rainy season. Although he cannot hunt large prey alone now, he can still hunt enough prey to feed himself when he goes out alone.
It is already very good to be able to complete the hunt alone and not get hurt.
Maria is not worried about the third child's future life outside, she believes that her little son can live a good life.
So on the morning when the third brother left, Maria clearly heard the noise, and she did not stop him. She just jumped down from the tree, said goodbye to the third brother for the last time, and watched his figure gradually go away.
The hot wind blew, and Maria smelled the scent of the third brother and left Andrew's territory, moving all the way to the north.
When the other leopards woke up from their sleep, the third brother had already gone far away.
Compared to Maria's calmness, the other leopards were much less calm.
Especially Andrew!
As soon as Andrew woke up, he realized that something was wrong. There was one less leopard around, and it should be Maria's cub.
Although Maria's cub had nothing to do with him, the cub had been with him for so long to learn hunting skills, so how could it just leave like that?
Andrew was a little angry. He
started roaring in his territory early in the morning.
Ye Yunian, Song Yi and Angela were also awakened by his voice and realized what had happened.
All the leopards were shocked by this.
Ye Yunian also found it a little hard to accept.
Why did the third brother leave without saying goodbye?
They were so close together yesterday! Look at
Song Yi again.
Song Yi seemed to be a little unhappy as well.
After all, the third brother was his brother, but before the third brother left, he didn't even say goodbye to him!
Song Yi was originally a little black panther, and now he had a gloomy face, which seemed to be even darker.
Angela was calmer than Ye Yunian and the others. She glanced at the leopard cubs who had woken up and were playing around, and suddenly looked up at Maria.
"Awoo?"
Are you going to leave too?
Maria's two cubs, the third one has already left to live independently, and although Song Yi has not left Maria yet, he also joined the hunting team a month ago, and now Song Yi can even hunt large prey independently.
After the cubs leave their mother one after another, the female leopard will usher in her next estrus period around the next spring.
After all, the reason why their leopard group has been united for so long is because of various accidents.
Now another change has come, so will the second change be far away?
Hearing Angela's voice, all the leopards present turned their eyes to Maria.
To be honest, before Angela gave birth to this litter of cubs, Ye Yunian also thought about leaving the leopard group.
But now that the cubs are born, Ye Yunian has temporarily put this idea aside. Because raising a litter of cubs is very hard, Ye Yunian wants to reduce the burden for his biological father and mother leopards.
This does not mean that Ye Yunian will never leave the leopard group again. After all, Ye Yunian has long reached the age to leave the leopard group, and he still wants to live with Song Yi as two leopards!
Especially in the next rainy season, maybe Ye Yunian will also usher in his own estrus period -
it's already the estrus period, and he still lives with his biological father Leopard and mother Leopard, isn't it a bit too absurd!
Ye Yunian is not so shameless!
He will leave with Song Yi, but definitely not now.
But Ye Yunian did not expect that the third brother would leave the leopard group earlier than them.
After this change, will Maria leave too?
Ye Yunian didn't know the answer, but just looked at Song Yi with some heartache.
Song Yi just stared at his mother quietly, waiting for her answer.
Maria looked up at the sky, and after a long time she lowered her head and howled softly.
She said: Yes, I will leave too.
Living with Andrew and Angela was a very comfortable and relaxed life.
But there were also some inconveniences.
For example, although Andrew accepted Maria, he was unwilling to mate with her.
Her cubs were already independent, and Maria also wanted to find her next love.
Andrew was a little unhappy when he heard this, and asked angrily: "Aww--"
I am willing to give you my territory. What are you dissatisfied with? You actually want to leave! When
Ye Yunian heard this, his face suddenly became a little sad.
When he was hesitating whether to speak to persuade Maria, he heard Maria speak again: "Awooo--"
She said: I didn't say that I would not come back after I left? I just went out to have a relationship, and I will come back when I am pregnant.
Ye Yunian blinked slowly.
Huh?
Andrew and Angela were also stunned.
Song Yi on the side turned his head to look at Ye Yunian in confusion.
Ye Yunian and him stared at each other.
For a long time.
Ye Yunian was the first to let go, covered his mouth and turned his head away.
Andrew really didn't expect it to unfold like this. He looked at Angela, then at Maria, and finally his eyes fell on the cub who was playing with his tail.
Just at this time, Maria spoke again: "Ah-woo?"
Is it okay?
Don't you like cubs anyway?
This year I will help you and Angela raise the children, and next year you will help me raise some. Isn't it fair?
Andrew blinked.
He felt that the logic seemed a bit unreasonable.
But then he saw the cub on the ground.
The cub was really cute.
So it seems that it is not impossible?
Andrew turned his head to look at Angela.
Angela had even less objection.
She liked Maria very much, and usually liked to communicate with Maria.
If Maria is willing to stay here forever, she will of course be happy!
Angela had no objection.
Although Andrew felt it was strange, he thought it was a good idea and simply nodded.
Only Ye Yunian knew exactly what was wrong, but he was not going to remind his biological father Leopard.
Because just like Maria said, the biological father Leopard likes cubs very much, and he is willing to raise them!
And more importantly, Ye Yunian should not leave his biological father Leopard and mother Leopard too far in the future.
They can also help raise the cubs!
Ye Yunian turned his head and looked at Song Yi with starry eyes.
Is that right?
Song Yi looked at Ye Yunian, and then at the two cubs who had walked in front of him at some point, and one of them had already crawled into Ye Yunian's belly!
Song Yi suddenly lowered his head, accurately bit the cub's neck, and pulled him out from under Ye Yunian's belly.
Then he raised his head expressionlessly, and looked at Ye Yunian with a pair of golden eyes with a little grievance.
Ye Yunian: ...
Uh.
I almost forgot that Song Yi is a jealous leopard.
Ye Yunian: "Awoo awoo~"
Song Yi, don't worry, I still like you the most!
I won't come back too often to help raise the cubs!
Song Yi snorted softly and turned his head.
I don't believe it.
Oh.
Why are you so arrogant?
Ye Yunian quickly stood up and kept rubbing his big head against Song Yi.
Okay, okay, don't be jealous.
Besides, these cubs are your and my brothers and sisters, there is nothing to be angry about!
Ye Yunian was particularly good at coaxing Song Yi.
After a while, Song Yi lowered his head and began to be affectionate with Ye Yunian.
The matter of the third leopard group forming an independent group came to an end.
After the dry season, the weather became increasingly dry and water-scarce. The weather this year seemed to be particularly dry. Even the river full of crocodiles that used to live not far from Andrew's territory had dried up.
Most of the rivers in Andrew's territory dried up early, which resulted in the leopard group having to travel a long distance to drink water.
But this was not the most serious problem.
The river stopped flowing, the water source that nourished this land decreased, and the area of grassland began to shrink dramatically, which directly led to the migration of many herbivores living in this territory.
The most direct impact of the reduction of prey in the territory is the increase in the difficulty of hunting, and food began to become scarce.
Some small predators living in Andru's territory, such as hyenas and African wild dogs, began to migrate early.
But the leopard group did not choose to migrate.
Because the largest group of wildebeests living in Andru's territory has not migrated.
Although the reduction in food has indeed brought some impacts to the leopard group, these impacts are not large.
After all, Ye Yunian and his team have always worked as a team, with Andrew Ye Yunian as the leader and Song Yimalia as the assistant. The four leopards hunt together, and their success rate is greatly improved. As
long as the herd of wildebeests does not migrate, their leopard group can stay in this territory.
But such days cannot last too long.
After all, the food on the grassland is limited, and this herd of wildebeests is too large. They will definitely migrate in the near future, so Ye Yunian and his team also need to prepare for migration.
Finally.
Just when the cubs turned four months old, the wildebeests began their migration.
That afternoon, Andrew took his leopard group on the road of migration.
This time, they followed the wildebeests all the way to the north.
After walking for about 20 days, they finally reached a new territory.
There was a river that had not yet dried up, and there were many herbivores living around it. This should have been a very suitable territory for them to survive, but the premise was that there were no lions.
As soon as he arrived at this land, Andrew smelled a strong scent left by a male lion.
The smell was still fresh and should have been left not long ago.
This means that the lion group is near them. If Andrew rashly leads the leopard group forward, they will most likely be driven away by the lion group, which will lead to a fierce battle.
Their current leopard group only has three adult leopards, Andrew, Angela and Maria. As for Ye Yunian, before his estrus period comes, he is not strictly considered an adult leopard.
What's more, there are four cubs in their team, and they can't be a match for the lion group.
So now the only way in front of them is to keep moving forward.
Andrew led everyone forward without any hesitation.
He wanted to ensure the safety of all members of his leopard group. Although he was not sure whether he could find a suitable territory ahead, there would be no future if he stayed where he was.
So the leopard group continued to move north for about ten days.
Finally, in this strange land, they found a small river.
Most of the riverbed was exposed, leaving only a small trickle in the middle.
Although the water flow was small, the river did not dry up.
Because of this, there were a small number of herbivores living on this land.
The only thing that made them a little dissatisfied was that there were a lot of hyenas living here.
On the first day of entering this territory, Ye Yunian and Song Yi went out hunting and were spotted by hyenas.
Fortunately, Andrew and Maria arrived in time and prevented their prey from being snatched away by hyenas.
But it was also because of this that their group of leopards were targeted by this group of shameless hyenas.
From now on, whenever they appear in the hunting place, there will be one or two hyenas following them.
Although Ye Yunian and his team are experienced and have made sufficient preparations in advance, it is inevitable that there will be one or two mistakes.
It was precisely because of this mistake that the prey they had just caught was snatched away by the hyenas.
Andrew was furious as he watched the meat in his mouth being snatched away.
Ye Yunian was so angry that his chest heaved violently.
But at the moment, they cannot easily conflict with this group of hyenas.
Because there are just too many of them!!!
How can there be 40 hyenas!
Even if Andrew and Ye Yunian can kill hyenas alone now, they can't kill a group of them in a short time, right?
What's more, the strength of this group of grassland bandits is not weak.
Many times, when they encounter a lone leopard, they will even take a detour when they see it.
So after this day, Ye Yunian began to think about whether to continue migrating.
After all, the rainy season is still a month away. Although being robbed of prey is very annoying, it is also a big deal to migrate again.
But before Ye Yunian was ready to lobby Andrew, they had to migrate.
Because just one day later, when Ye Yunian and Song Yi were out hunting in the wild, they smelled the scent of a group of lions. Ye Yunian
and Song Yi immediately issued an early warning, and then they returned to the leopard group without hesitation.
Andrew received the signal sent by Ye Yunian and Song Yi. He climbed up the tree early and saw clearly that the lion group was coming from the southwest.
They were a fairly large group of lions, with a total of more than 20 lions.
So there was no need to hesitate or think now. Andrew made a prompt decision, quickly came down from the tree, called the leopards and started a new migration.
There were no herbivores accompanying them during this migration, so they had fewer ways to obtain food, and the journey was a bit difficult.
Fortunately, it didn't take long for the African savannah, which had been dry for half a year, to welcome its rainy season again.
On the second day after the first rain, Andrew and his team arrived at a new territory.
This is a territory without large carnivorous animal markings. There are also rivers running through the territory. The grassland is vast and boundless. Although there is not much grass on the land at this moment, there are only grass roots and gravel.
But the rain has already fallen. As long as we wait patiently for a few more days, the green shoots will cover the land again.
And the herbivores that had left long ago will return to this rich land again.
Andrew acted decisively and quickly circled out the scope of his new territory.
Ye Yunian circled around Andrew's territory, and then circled out a territory for himself and Song near the edge of Andrew's territory.
By the time Andrew noticed something was wrong, Ye Yunian had already marked half of the territory.
Andrew and Angela came over in a hurry. Before the two leopards even got close, their howling complaints echoed throughout the grassland.
Andrew:
My cub! Are you not getting along with your biological father again?
Why do you want to mark your own territory? Aren’t you happy living with me?
You can’t leave me!
Angela:
Did Andrew make you angry?
Or do you not want to hunt recently?
It doesn’t matter. If you don’t want to hunt, just leave it to me! How old are
you? It’s still a long way for you to live independently!
Ye Yunian: ...
I’m going to be three years old soon!
How can a three-year-old leopard still live with its parents?
Still relying on my biological mother for support, isn't that just living off my parents!
Ye Yunian quickly stepped forward to greet his parents, and then he was intimate with them, first calming their anxious mood, and then he told them about his plans.
Don't worry.
I won't be too far away from you, I will live with Song Yi on the edge of my biological father's territory!
And even though we live separately, I will go back to see you often!
After all, brothers and sisters are really cute.
And Maria also said that she is going out to continue her relationship this year, so Song Yi and I will definitely come back to see the cubs!
You really don’t have to worry.
But no matter what Ye Yunian said, the two leopards just disagreed.
So what if the cubs grow up?
In the eyes of Andrew and Angela, no matter how old the cubs are, they are their cubs.
And it’s not that they can’t afford to raise the cubs!
Recently, because Angela had to take care of the cubs, she let the big cubs go out hunting for a long time, but it doesn’t matter. Now the little cubs are six months old, and Angela can continue to hunt and raise the cubs.
So big cub, you don’t have to find a territory by yourself!
Ye Yunian:...
Ahem.
He knew it would be like this!
So Ye Yunian also prepared a trump card -
Ye Yunian looked at his biological father and mother leopard sincerely, and asked his soul: "Awooo wooo?"
What if I want to fall in love?
Andrew\Angela:?
Andrew turned his head to look at Angela first.
Then he looked up at the sky.
After careful calculation, it seems that the big cub will indeed become an adult this year?
Yes.
The big cub also needs to fall in love, so what should I do?
Angela was also a little confused.
She had never thought about this problem!
Except for Maria, their leopard group are all Ye Yunian's relatives, and they definitely cannot fall in love with the big cubs.
And the only female Maria, it seems that she is not interested in their big cubs.
As for Maria's cub black panther.
He is a male leopard just like the big cub!
So -
their big cub has to be independent?
Andrew and Angela's faces fell instantly.
Don't want this to happen!
They don't want to be separated from the big cub at all.
Although the big cub has grown very big now, their big cub is handsome, cute, and has a beautiful voice. Without the big cub, which cub will rub against them?
Andrew wilted instantly.
Angela also drooped her head dejectedly.
Seeing that the time was almost right, Ye Yunian finally opened his mouth to comfort him again: "Awooowooowooo--"
So I didn't go too far!
I'm at the edge of my biological father leopard's territory.
As long as you miss me, I can go back to see you anytime!
Ye Yunian's eyes were big and sincere.
Andrew and Angela felt soft in their hearts.
Finally,
the two stubborn parents compromised.
There was no other way.
After all, their big cub was very cute.
And more importantly, the cub promised them that it would not stray too far away, just at the edge of Andrew's territory!
As long as Andrew and Angela wanted, they could even come to see the cub once a day~
Okay.
Okay, that's it!
Before leaving, Andrew and Angela interacted with Ye Yunian for a long time, reluctant to leave, and then walked away, looking back every few steps.
When the two leopards walked away, the big cub's breath gradually faded in his nose. Andrew finally reacted and asked Angela with a little confusion: "Aww?"
Our big cub lives independently, but why does Maria's big cub live with our cubs?
After Andrew's reminder, Angela thought of this and was a little confused: "Aww?"
Maybe the big cub is afraid of being alone, so he lets the black panther accompany him?
After all, his big cub has liked this black panther since he was a child.
And more importantly, it is the first time for the big cub to be independent.
With a black panther that is good at hunting with him, the big cub will not be hungry!
Angela slowly analyzed it with Andrew.
Andrew thought about it and felt that Angela was right.
After all, the little black panther was also a hunter that he had taught himself!
With the little black panther around, his cubs would definitely not suffer any loss!
Yes.
Angela also believed it.
So after noticing that their older cub had entered the estrus period, the two worried parents immediately set out for Ye Yunian's territory, ready to take their older cub out for a blind date.
Who would have thought that they had just arrived at Ye Yunian's territory when they smelled two intertwined scents.
Andrew was a little confused, and his brows furrowed.
Angela was a little confused. Logically speaking, the black panther had not yet reached the estrus age, so why was his scent so strong?
Could it be that the black panther and the older cub had entered the estrus period together?
That would be a big problem!
The black panther wouldn't beat up their big cub because of the issue of mating rights, right?
Andrew and Angela felt uneasy when they thought of this.
The two leopards didn't hesitate at all and ran all the way to the place where Ye Yunian's aura was the strongest.
Then they saw that the black panther really pinned down their big cub and beat him up -
Andrew couldn't bear it anymore. This stinky black panther actually dared to beat up his own big cub! It was
simply courting death!
Even if he was Maria's cub, he would not forgive him!
Andrew roared angrily.
Angela was equally unwilling to be outdone.
Then they saw their big cub turned his head in horror, and then quickly stretched out his feet to kick the black panther. Almost instantly, the black panther was kicked down by Ye Yunian into the grass beside him, and the positions of the two leopards were reversed.
The black panther was pressed under Ye Yunian's buttocks, and Ye Yunian looked nervously at his father and mother leopards not far away.
Hmm?
It seems that their big cub didn't seem to be bullied?
"Ah... Wu?" Ye Yunian trembled and made a sound, as if it was squeezed out of his throat.
You two, why did you come here at this time?
Are you really going to not give your cubs any face?
Andrew/Angela:?
Hmm?
What do you mean?