This year's rainy season is exceptionally long, which is not good news for herbivores. Although they are not worried about food, the continuous rainfall has caused the water level of the Gangsa River to skyrocket, becoming an insurmountable barrier for herbivores on their migration routes.
The nomadic wildebeests on the grassland had to stay in the grassland where the Elliot lion group was located, including the zebras, gazelles and other herbivores that migrated with the wildebeest army. Continuous rainfall provided them with fresh green grass, but it still could not calm their anxious mood.
Many wildebeests and zebras tried to cross the river, but all failed. Even the confident giraffes were forced to retreat when they encountered strong currents when they reached the middle of the river.
The large number of herbivores staying here is good news for the carnivores here, especially the big cats.
The lion cubs of the Elliot pride have spent the entire rainy season safely under the careful care of the lionesses. At this time in previous years, the lion cubs have begun to withstand the test of hunger in the dry season, but this year's situation is really good, and the lionesses We are confident that at least two-thirds of these lion cubs in the pride will live to be one year old. Only about a quarter of the lion cubs born in previous years survive. No matter how strong the lionesses are, they cannot compete with the cruel nature. When the dry season comes, there are so few prey in the territory that only the strongest pups survive the competition. It's not that lionesses lack maternal love for their weak children. This is the usual practice of lions. Instead of starving all of them, it is better to abandon the weak ones and let the strong little lions live.
The lions' ability to rule this grassland for more than ten years relies on this maternal tenderness and cruelty.
Harper, the leader of the lioness, loves every cub born, but she needs to consider the entire pride.
Fortunately, this year's rainy season is relatively long, and the lion cubs are getting stronger and stronger. I believe that most of them can survive the dry season and become the young strength of the lion group. As for the male lion Elliot, his existence will also provide guarantee for the lions to survive the dry season. Once they cannot hunt enough food, then large prey, such as giraffes and buffalo, will inevitably become the targets of the lions. At this time, The participation of the Lions has become a must.
Elliot is fully responsible for this. These lion cubs are his descendants. Even if he often loses his temper with the lion cubs, he will do his best to keep them alive.
The peace among the lions during this time relieved the hyenas who had been on tenterhooks all day.
The coming dry season will test all creatures on the grassland, including Rojo, who is training two cheetah cubs in their hunting skills.
During this period, Jasper and the two cheetah cubs lived very well. There were a large number of cubs in the wildebeest and gazelle groups. Adult gazelles were not difficult to capture. Occasionally, with good luck, Jasper could catch a big one. prey. But hyenas and vultures always come unexpectedly, and occasionally lions are encountered. This makes Jasper a little troubled, but there is no good solution. But as long as his children can eat enough, Jasper doesn't care too much. Of course, he can't care too much. Compared with hyenas and lions, the cheetah's force value is not at the same level.
Hunting for the two cheetah cubs every day, playing with them, and teaching them the knowledge necessary for survival, these take up most of Jasper's time. At other times, with the three cheetahs full of food, he will appear to be doing nothing and look for a view. Lie down and rest in an open place or in the shade of a tree.
Jasper and the two cheetah cubs like to stay near termite mounds. Whenever Jasper sits on the termite mound and looks out in the distance, looking for prey, the two lively cheetah cubs will chase and play around him, occasionally jumping from his legs. As time passes, his strong little body often makes him lose his balance.
The cheetah cubs are six months old and still love to play. The only thing that has changed is that their play has become more purposeful and occasionally very rough and aggressive.
This change is especially obvious in Morgan. Whenever he raises the hair on the back of his neck and assumes a threatening posture, Dylan is often frightened, and often ends up running to Rojo for shelter.
Rojo doesn't know how to handle this situation, should he blame Morgan? This is obviously unreasonable. What is the difference between a non-ferocious carnivore and an antelope? So, teach Dylan? How to teach? Character cannot be changed through preaching.
Rojo once suspected that he had mistaken Dylan's gender, but his body shape and male characteristics, which were the same as Morgan's, showed that this was indeed a male cheetah cub.
"It's so nerve-wracking..."
Rojo, like any father worried about his children's education, was at his wits' end. Other families still have children whose mothers can discuss it, but what about him?
However, Jasper's current body is also very young. According to memory, this evolved male cheetah had just left his mother not long ago. It can be said that as soon as his mother kicked him out of the house, Jasper took over the magpie's nest. Jasper didn't get much benefit. In the blink of an eye, he picked up two cheetah cubs and became an "unmarried" single father.
At any rate, when he was a human being, he had flirted with girls, held hands with her, hugged her waist, and walked on base. This old man who had his body taken over was a bit miserable. I haven’t even touched the female cheetah’s paws.
wrong! This body is his now!
Jasper suddenly paused and suddenly realized that after living for more than twenty years, he became a virgin in the blink of an eye? No, according to the current situation, he should be a virgin?
"Dad, what are you thinking about?"
Dylan ran to Jasper and lay down, licked Jasper's chin, and rubbed Jasper intimately.
Jasper, who was well versed in the body language of little cheetahs, immediately knew that the little guy was hungry. Morgan watched Dylan act coquettishly towards Roqiao, and also came over to rub up against Roqiao. Although he now looked like a male cheetah, he was still as well-behaved as a kitten in front of Roqiao.
When my son is hungry, he has no time to think. Leopard girl's claws are nothing compared to filling her stomach.
Jasper stood up, stretched his waist, yawned, flicked his tail, and jumped onto the termite hill. Morgan and Dylan immediately followed him.
kindness?
Jasper suspected that he was hallucinating. He was thinking about a leopard girl just now. How come a leopard girl actually appeared the next moment? Don't ask him why he determined the male and female, intuition, intuition understands?
A few hundred meters away from Jasper and the two cheetah cubs, an adult female cheetah stopped. First she looked at Ro Qiao, as if she was considering something, and then she was stunned when she saw the two cheetah cubs next to Ro Qiao. Living.
The female cheetah, named Hida, was eight years old. She had given birth to three cheetah cubs not long ago, but they were killed by lions while she was out hunting. This is Shida's third attempt to raise cubs, but so far, only one female leopard cub has survived to adulthood.
It's not that Hida is careless, or that her hunting skills are not good. In a harsh competitive environment, cheetah cubs are the most difficult to survive. However, the territory of the Elliot Lion Group is pretty good. At least there are very few hyenas here, which greatly reduces the threat of the little cheetahs.
But it is not absolute. For example, Morgan and Dylan's mother was killed by a stray single male hyena.
Hida was sure that the one on the termite mound was a male cheetah, an evolved species like her, very young, but she was surprised by the two cheetah cubs following the male cheetah.
Although male cheetahs live in groups, it is impossible for them to carry two such small cubs.
Is it his brother? Obviously impossible!
So, is he raising it?
Xida suddenly remembered the rumors she had heard before, about an evolved male cheetah raising two cheetah cubs. She thought it was just a joke, but she didn't expect to see it with her own eyes.
However, Xida has no time to care about Rojo and the two little cheetahs now. She came here purely to avoid the pair of evolved cheetah brothers. The evolved species named Jero started a few days ago. Chasing after her relentlessly. Shida was sure that Quinn was not interested in her, but as long as Jero didn't give up, the brothers would keep chasing her until they got what they wanted.
Sheeda had just lost her baby and wasn't planning on raising another litter just yet.
Xida and Jasper looked at each other quietly for a while, carefully keeping their distance, until they were sure that neither party had any intention of attacking the other, and they breathed a sigh of relief.
Rojo didn't mark the scope of his territory, and he was really worried about leaving scent marks or something. And Hida rashly broke into the area where a male cheetah was, and she was also very nervous.
Just when Hida was about to leave quietly, two male cheetahs appeared. They have been following Hida's scent here.
Rojo knew them, Quinn and Jello. Suddenly he remembered that Quinn once said that they overlapped with Elliot's territory, and he should be in this area now.
Quinn and Jello also saw Rojo. Quinn wanted to go up and say hello to Rojo, but Jello was obviously more interested in Shida.
The male cheetah is chasing the female cheetah, what else could it be for? Jasper thought about it and understood. But the next development made Jasper almost overturn his guess.
The two male cheetahs suddenly accelerated when they were less than a hundred meters away from Xida. After being caught up, Xida immediately lay down on the ground and assumed a submissive posture. Then, the two male cheetahs began to surround Xida. Amid Xida's screams, Quinn's movements were obviously a bit perfunctory, but Jero was in high spirits, and even stretched out his paw, occasionally tapping Xida's paw!
Xida was not polite. After seeing the attitude of the cheetah brothers clearly, she simply ignored Quinn and waved her claws at Jero, kicking and scratching him. Later, she simply stood up and pushed away with her two front paws. He killed Jero, squatted on the ground and kept shouting.
Jasper was dumbfounded. Could it be that this was not courting but seeking revenge?
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