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Chapter 6 King Cheetah Black Nose

Baixue grew up alone in the swamp. It lived up to her mother's expectations and survived well.

When Baixue was nine months old, the small animals in the swamp could no longer fill his stomach.Baixue needs more food, and it uses the cover of tall and lush reeds in the rainy season to find a home that is more suitable for its survival.

A group of hyenas set their sights on the white snow in the reeds.Although her mother is no longer by Bai Xue's side and cannot help her anymore, the survival skills her mother taught her are still there.Moreover, these survival skills improved day by day as Bai Xue grew up.

Bai Xue realized that she was in extreme danger-if Bai Xue was caught by the hyena group, she would be killed by them.However, there is no tree around for Bai Xue to climb.In desperation, Baixue jumped into a nearby thorn bush.Bai Xue thought she could escape.

Unexpectedly, the cruel and ruthless hyenas were pressing on and surrounded the thornbush, and the encirclement became smaller and smaller.Snow White did not dare to fight against so many hyenas, so he had to venture up the tallest and weakest twig in the thornbush.

The branches were crumbling, and the hyenas were waiting for the branches to snap.Frightened, Bai Xue held on to the branch tightly to prevent her from slipping and falling.Several hours passed, and the hyena finally felt a little sleepy, and fell asleep lying around the thornbush.Bai Xue plucked up her courage, tried to climb back to the ground, and slipped away quietly.

A young cheetah cub came over.But this cheetah looks a little special.Instead of small black spots like other cheetahs, it has large black markings on fawn fur, broad black stripes on its back, and a large, black nose.The local aborigines have a fixed name for this kind of cheetah: king cheetah.This is a genetically mutated individual among cheetahs, just like the white lion among lions.

Xiaowang Cheetah dragged a snow-white lesser flamingo, swaggering into the reeds.The moment Xiao Wang cheetah saw the group of hyenas, it panicked and dropped its prey, and fled away like lightning.

The awakened hyenas blinked their sleepy eyes, and in a daze, they saw a flash of white light, and the white lion cub turned into a snow-white flamingo.The group of dogs competed for food, and white and pink feathers fluttered up and down. They had long forgotten the white lion cub.

Bai Xue took the opportunity to escape with Xiao Wang Cheetah.

After running for a while, the scenery was quite different from the edge of the swamp where Baixue was, but Baixue couldn't remember the way back.

Unbeknownst to Baixue, it has come to the swamp area of ​​Natron Lake, which is known for its harsh life, and it was a six-month-old cheetah outcast—King Cheetah Black Nose who accidentally rescued it.

Black Nose used to have a happy family. His mother and five sisters lived happily in the bushes on the edge of the Serengeti prairie.The black-nosed mother is loving, tough, fierce and an excellent predator.

Black Nose and its siblings are just three months old, not yet fully weaned, and not yet able to hunt with their mother.The five black-nosed sisters were left by their mother in a dense bush.The undergrowth is stealthy and protects the black-nose from wandering predators.

Black Nose is born different from the four siblings.First of all, the appearance of the black nose is not like its siblings with small spots on the pale yellow fur, but with large black markings, a broad black stripe on the back, and a large and thick nose. black.Black Nose is not only different in appearance from its four siblings, but also very curious.The black-nosed siblings huddled together tightly when they heard any sound, trembling with fear, waiting quietly for their mother to call them.Driven by curiosity, Black Nose kept pushing aside the bushes and looking around.

Black Nose saw his mother staring intently at a young chamois that was eating.The mother slowly approached the prey step by step.Suddenly, the mother jumped out, pounced on the calf, and grabbed the calf by its hind legs.Then the mother pounced and bit the calf's neck. Five minutes later, the little chamois stopped struggling and remained motionless.Then the mother dragged the calf's carcass towards the bushes where Blacknose and his sisters were hiding.

Black Nose got impatient for a long time, and jumped out of the bushes to meet his mother.At this moment, a female cheetah with her three cubs stopped the mother's way.The female cheetah threatened the black-nosed mother, thinking that the young chamois was her first prey and wanted to share the prey.

After a short period of mutual threats, the female cheetah finally couldn't resist the determination of the black-nosed mother to defend the prey, and left in despair.But one of the cubs of the mother cheetah followed the wrong mother, and followed Heibi's mother together with Heibi.

After the meal, the Black Nose family licked each other's faces and purred loudly.The black-nosed mother licked the cubs one by one, urging them to return to the nest for a nap.After returning to the nest, the black-nosed mother noticed that she had an extra cub, but she couldn't tell which one was from outside.The black-nosed mother started beating every cub that came near her, and the six cubs huddled together in fear.Until noon the next day, the black-nosed mother did not feed the cubs anything, and even refused to breastfeed them.

Finally, the black-nosed mother discovered that Hei-nose was very different from the other five cubs.

Black-nosed mother bit black-nosed fiercely.Black Nose's mother no longer knows Hei Nai, and regards the foreign cheetah cub as her own child, and Hei Nose as a "little monster" among her children.Black Nose had no choice but to flee from his home and his mother.

Black Nose became a helpless outcast, living only on the bounty of nature.

Cheetahs in nature are very fastidious animals. They only eat the food they hunt, neither carrion nor prey caught by other predators.But the black-nosed little king cheetah grew up picking up and eating dead lesser flamingos in the highly saline salt lake.For this reason, the four long legs of Black Nose were not only corroded and had their fur removed, but also were soaked with blood all year round.

Lake Natron is a salt lake with extremely harsh environment.The lake water is rich in mineral salts and is corrosive.But what is amazing is that there are millions of lesser flamingos living here.Lesser flamingos were born on the salt island in Lake Natron, where three quarters of the world's lesser flamingos reproduce.The skin on their legs is thick and tough like leather, not afraid of the corrosion of alkaline lake water.Lesser flamingos have reddish-white coats, but their feathers have a white base that closely resembles the salt crystals that form on salt islands in the depths of lagoons.They eat a special kind of algae in the lake, which contains a red pigment, so their feathers are somewhat reddish.

No predator would wade across a lake to hunt lesser flamingos for a full meal and risk corrosion from the alkaline lake water.Due to the harsh environmental conditions, there are very few carnivores living near the salt lake, but the black nose has grown up here safely.

(End of this chapter)