There are still two months until the end of the rainy season, and Jasper's injury is almost healed. It's hard to imagine that the wound that made it difficult for him to walk now leaves no trace at all. The smooth, bright beige fur is still as neat as ever.
"Is it because of evolution?"
Jasper lay on the grass, watching the two cheetah cubs chasing and rolling in the grass ahead, swishing their tails. Dylan always lost to Morgan in terms of strength. As soon as Morgan let him go, he jumped up to Rojo and lay down, letting Rojo lick his forehead and ears. It was so comfortable that a gurgling sound came from my throat.
"Dad, what are you going to eat today?"
While Jasper was recovering from his injuries. Morgan and Dylan pestered him more and more. He often clings to Jasper and behaves like two little house cats. Jasper tried his best to prevent himself and his children from going hungry, but due to the limited prey he could catch, he still lived a tight life this month. Apart from warthogs, the father and son eat the most rabbits. Although the taste was good, Jasper still felt sad every time they looked at the antelope herd drooling.
Jasper secretly made up his mind. The first thing he did after recovering from his injury was to catch a gazelle for the two cheetah cubs to satisfy their greed! And he did it, but instead of catching a gazelle, he caught a canine gazelle. The antelope is very small, but it can eat enough for a day. Due to the living habits of the antelope, they rarely go out of the bushes and often hide around the acacia trees. They are difficult to find, but the taste is good.
Morgan and Luo Rui saw this kind of prey for the first time, and curiously circled around the antelope. However, their curiosity did not last long. Filling their stomachs was always the first choice.
The two cheetah cubs are almost five months old. They are growing very healthy and their teeth are getting sharper. They no longer need Jasper to tear apart prey for them to eat. Occasionally they will chase some smaller animals, such as jackals that follow them looking for opportunities to pick up food. This kind of chasing is a game and a practice of hunting.
Jasper realized that he must pay attention to the education of the little cheetahs. He could not raise them for a lifetime. Under normal circumstances, cheetah cubs are raised alone by their mothers. The evolved cheetahs, like the original cheetahs, leave their mothers around eighteen months old and start living on their own. Before that, they will learn everything they need from their caregivers, including hunting techniques and the types of prey they can catch.
The young cheetah seemed to have no real idea of the size of its prey. At one point, Morgan pointed to an adult zebra and asked Rojo if he could catch it and eat it.
In an attempt to change the habits of a species on his own, Jasper thinks he doesn't have that much ambition and ability. He can only adapt to the environment and consider the children as much as possible. Although he raised Morgan and Luo Rui, Rojo could not destroy this natural habit. This will not be of much benefit to Morgan and Dylan's future lives.
Breaking off his paws, Jasper realized that he only had about a year to live with the two cheetah cubs, which made him a little depressed.
As for the education of the little cheetahs, it must be put on the agenda.
The father and son had finished their meal, and Jasper took the two cheetah cubs to the nearest pond to drink water. Cheetahs do not need to drink water every day. During the dry season, they can go without water for up to ten days. But they must eat regularly. Because of their body structure, cheetahs have almost no fat in their bodies. If they don't eat for a few days, they are likely to starve to death, and the cubs will be even more vulnerable. This is why Jasper tried his best to make the little cheetah full.
Morgan and Luo Rui trusted Rojo wholeheartedly. As long as Rojo was around, the two cheetah cubs could always play without any scruples. They found a serval cat catching a field mouse in the grass, and immediately rushed over with great interest. A cheetah less than five months old is almost the same size as this serval cat. In fact, if you compare carefully, the adult serval cat is larger than the two cheetah cubs. However, Morgan and Luo Rui did not feel that there would be danger until the serval cat The cat scratched Morgan's nose, and the two cheetah cubs were so frightened that they ran back to Jasper.
Jasper sighed helplessly, and the serval cat still arched its back, assuming a threatening posture towards Jasper. Seeing that Jasper had no intention of attacking him, he turned around and ran into the grass.
"dad..."
Luo Rui rubbed Jasper's chin flatteringly. Morgan also realized that he seemed to be in trouble and stood aside without daring to say anything.
Jasper didn't mean to blame them. This was the instinct of cheetahs to chase and hunt. There was no need to blame the two little cheetahs for this kind of thing. But he must let the two little cheetahs understand what they can and cannot provoke. Once they get into trouble that they can't get rid of, the consequences may be fatal.
To sum up, persimmons must be picked soft and pinched.
"Okay, Dad is not angry."
Jasper asked the two cheetah cubs to follow him and started their first lesson.
"Son, you must listen carefully to what dad taught you today, do you understand?"
"clear!"
Morgan and Luo Rui followed Jasper obediently, and Jasper explained every animal they encountered. It's the rainy season and the grasslands are full of herbivores, which makes Rojo's course go very smoothly.
"Remember, our prey are usually smaller antelopes such as gazelles and antelopes, as well as the calves of some herbivores. Do not provoke adult wildebeests and elands, including adults. Impala. Our advantage is speed, not strength, wrestling with wildebeest and zebra, that's what lions do..."
Jasper patiently explained to the little cheetah. Occasionally, the little cheetah would ask some questions, but Jasper never showed any impatience.
"Dad, ostrich eggs!"
Morgan discovered an ostrich nest with more than a dozen ostrich eggs lying inside. Jasper was about to call Morgan back, but a tall male ostrich took his place.
Morgan was startled by the ostrich, and Jasper could only rush forward to distract the ostrich, and then led Morgan and Luo Rui to stay away from the enraged ostrich father.
"It's important not to mess with adult ostriches, they are not our food!"
"But ostrich eggs..."
"Lonely ostrich eggs are probably discarded, but such a nest with many ostrich eggs must be guarded by adult ostriches. You must remember what dad said. I saw it just now. They are definitely not easy to mess with. ,Understand?"
The two little cheetahs nodded, and Jasper breathed a sigh of relief. Sure enough, good children are more annoying.
He remembered that the female cheetah would capture some cubs for the cheetahs to practice hunting. This training probably started when the cheetahs were a few months old?
Jasper couldn't remember it no matter how hard he tried, and the memory of this male cheetah was also a little blurry. Was it six months? Eight months? Or ten months? Or bigger?
Jasper was not sure, so he simply decided to start from tomorrow!
So, the next day, Rojo specially captured a small gazelle that was less than two weeks old alive. The two cheetah cubs successfully caught up with the gazelle and tripped it up with their claws. When Jasper thought they would bite the gazelle's neck, Morgan and Luo Rui ran to grab two rocks respectively. Morgan He even tried to grab a stone with his front paws and crack the little gazelle’s head open!
"Son, what are you doing? Why don't you bite it to death?"
"Dad, that's how you killed that big guy!"
Morgan puffed out his little chest and said seriously, while Luo Rui was still struggling with the stone. In fact, it was impossible for the unchanged little cheetah to grab the stone with its two front paws.
Well, Jasper didn’t know whether to be pleased with the cub’s keen observation and learning abilities, or to be worried about them. He did catch some big prey this way, but when he caught a gazelle, he always bit the neck!
"Have it?"
Morgan and Dylan looked at each other and tilted their heads at the same time.
Jasper looked up at the sky helplessly. Educational issues still have a long way to go. Sons, Dad is stressed out…
It's not just Rojo who has troubled dads.
At this moment, the lion Elliot was also in a state of rage.
The Elliot pride consists of twelve strong adult lionesses, all of whom are Elliot' wives. During this rainy season, nearly twenty new lion cubs were added to the pride. Although some of them do not live to be more than one year old, so many cubs still give the male lions who stay with the pride a headache.
Lion cubs love to play and make noise, and the lionesses always pamper them unconditionally. Especially Harper, who has been upgraded to a grandmother, she almost never gets angry with the little lions.
Elliot just wants to take a good nap now instead of playing with these cubs!
Elliot himself has little patience. What he is good at is fighting and guarding territory, not being a nanny! Once the little lion offends Elliot, he will definitely bar his fangs and give these ignorant little guys a warning, even if they are all his children. But at this time, the lionesses who used to obey him would roar at him, and sometimes even slap him. Although the sharp claws have been put away, being slapped by a woman is related to a man's dignity!
Elliot adhered to the principle that good men should not fight with women, so he was driven out of the house by the lionesses. Elliot was filled with tears when he thought about the way these lionesses had coquettishly treated him a few months ago.
Even the Lion King cannot escape the fate of throwing it away after use.
Elliot was very angry, but also very helpless. He simply left the center of the territory where the lions were and began to patrol the territory. But he didn't expect to bump into Jasper who was taking his son with him.
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