lion heart

Chapter 15 Hunting the Duiker

The jackal mother with a slumped waist, the jackal cub with injured legs and feet, the black-nosed cheetah cub with four big blood holes poked out in its butt, and the lion cub Bai Xue with small holes all over his body are all wounded now.They coexist peacefully and depend on each other temporarily by this healing lake.

However, they have not hunted food for three days.

Here is the grassland, the grassland in the dry season.There are no water chickens, let alone flamingos.The mother jackal was injured in the waist, so she couldn't catch lizards, mice and other nimble animals to feed the little jackal, and it was even more impossible to find things like mushrooms that were only found in wet places.

Baixue was covered in white fur, so she couldn't hide in the golden yellow grass at all.Even though Black Nose endured the severe pain and dragged his bloody buttocks to drive the hare and other prey towards Bai Xue lurking in the weeds, the prey would take a detour and escape early.There are no white-spangled salt piles here. Although the Enkron Salt Lake is also a saline lake, its salt content is small and cannot form a salt pile.Baixue's disguised "salt pile" cannot prevent the prey from being suspicious.

On the prairie in the dry season, herbivores form large groups and migrate to distant places, and no animal can be seen.Even if the large herds of zebras, wildebeests and antelopes did not migrate, it would be impossible for the four seriously injured predators to hunt any of them.

Although Baixue is a lion, he has lived independently since he was nine months old.Mother Jinweijian only hopes that her special daughter Baixue can live a few more days, so that she won't starve to death in the swamp at a very young age.Jinweijian only taught Baixue the skills of catching small animals such as water chickens and teals. Jinweijian would never have imagined that his daughter Baixue would live to such an age and go to the prairie to hunt antelopes, which required lurking hunting. animal.

Black Nose was abandoned by her mother when she was only three months old, and she only saw her hunting once.As long as the black nose thinks of its mother, it will imitate the mother's action of catching the duiker.Cheetahs are good at hunting duikers, but Blacknose has never caught duikers either.What's more, large herds of small antelopes have migrated long ago, and it is difficult to see the shadow of antelopes on the grassland now.

A mother jackal is determined to hunt an Impala antelope.

The Impala antelope is a small antelope that lives on the African grasslands.In the dry season, they only do small-scale migration, migrating to the bushes where large groups of tsetse flies and mosquitoes gather. There are even blood-sucking poisonous spiders on the branches of the bushes. Lions, cheetahs, African wild dogs and other carnivores dare not where to.

The mother jackal had no choice. Her little jackal hadn't had enough to eat for many days, and her body was getting weaker and weaker.

At noon in the scorching sun, the Impala antelope likes to take a nap in the bushes or under the shade of trees, while the starlings are using their sharp beaks to peck at the blood-sucked poisonous spiders on their fur.Even as starlings pecked around their eyes and in their ears, they remained motionless.

At this time, the mother jackal was slumped and limping, strolling leisurely by herself near the Impala antelope herd, seemingly harmless.Originally, adult Impala antelope were not afraid of a single jackal, they weighed twice as much and ran twice as fast.

Later, the mother jackal simply stopped 50 meters away from the sleepy and defenseless Impala antelope, stretching her limbs, as if she was going to sleep for a while.But in fact, he is a cunning liar-he is peeking out of the corner of his eye to see which antelope sleeps the most soundly!

Snow White and Black Nose are behind the tall termite pile in the distance, ready to pounce at all times.The little jackal is hiding in the abandoned aardvark cave, snoring already.

Suddenly, the mother jackal rushed over like a bullet out of the chamber, and bit a sleeping, unsuspecting adult Impala female antelope, and would not let go.

Baixue and Heibi heard the sound of their prey struggling, and they moved like lightning, forgetting the pain on their bodies.

Black Nose arrived first, slapped the antelope's buttocks, and then bit the antelope's neck.

Bai Xue also imitated Hei Nose's appearance, but because she was too flustered, she slapped Hei Nose's buttocks. The pain made Hei Nose couldn't help but yelled, and let go of the mouth that was suffocating the antelope.Baixue rushed up quickly and bit off the antelope's neck.

The mother jackal had already been injured at the waist, and the antelope's dying struggle caused its waist to hurt.

Before the mother jackal could call, the little jackal limped over and bit the antelope's throat, sucking; the lion cub Baixue was biting at the abdomen; , it did not hide to eat, nor did it try to hide half of the food.

The little jackal, the little cheetah and the little lion lay down together, all they could do was eat so much meat that they couldn't even walk.The mother jackal looked at the three little ones in relief, dragged the remaining food into the aardvark hole, sealed the hole, and only picked up some leftovers left by the little ones.

Snow White, Black Nose, Little Jackal and Mother Jackal depended on each other for survival, and passed through a difficult dry season.

(End of this chapter)