lion heart

Chapter 8 Half a Flamingo

Snow White has not hunted for five days.

Snow White hides in the reeds behind a huge rock and is suffering from teething.

Lion cubs typically begin to grow new teeth between nine and twelve months of age.The excruciating pain and fever associated with teething results in a very high mortality rate among lion cubs.Bai Xue grew her first short front tooth when she was less than eight months old. At that time, with her mother by her side, although it hurt, she didn't feel afraid.Now with four canines coming in, he feels more alone than ever.

Bai Xue remembered that when she started to grow her first short front tooth, the pain was unbearable and it was difficult to eat. It was her mother who took it to find ostrich eggs and got over the difficulty.

Ostriches have excellent eyesight and can usually quickly find any predators within a radius of four to 5000 meters on open ground.When the female ostrich is incubating eggs during the day, although her body is lying on the egg nest, her eyes are always looking at the grassland, and her long neck is pressed against her head, like a telescope.When a predator approaches, the female ostrich will immediately lower her body, carefully leave the egg nest, and use her long neck to pull up hay around the nest, covering the dazzling white eggs so that she may not be able to find them even if she approaches .

In order to allow Baixue, who has a high fever, to eat a life-saving ostrich egg, Jinweijian has been observing the bushy hill for a day and a night, and finally locked the target.The tip of the golden tail sneaks slowly from the opposite direction of the male ostrich's line of sight that is hatching eggs at night, and the body sticks to the ground. The moment the egg was laid, the tip of the golden tail quickly approached the hatching nest.At this time, the female ostrich has no time to pull the hay to hide the egg nest.

What Jinweijian didn't expect was that the female ostrich didn't run away from the adult lion.The female ostrich spread her wings to both sides, stretched her head and neck forward, and laid it flat on the ground, with a heroic spirit of defending the hatching ovary to the death, which shocked the tip of the golden tail.At the moment when Jinweijian was in a trance, the male ostrich hiding in the grass rushed over and kicked the unsuspecting Jinweijian with his muscular legs continuously towards the edge of the hatching nest. Kicked one meter away.

The female ostrich took the opportunity to pull the hay, concealed the egg nest, escaped from the hatching ovary, and pecked at the ear with the tip of the golden tail from the front.No matter the desperate attack of the female ostrich, or the bleeding of the old wound kicked open by the male ostrich, the tip of the golden tail fixed its eyes on the place where the female ostrich was originally hatched.Without hesitation, the tip of the golden tail pounced on the ostrich's hatching ovary, and a nest of white ostrich eggs was exposed in the morning light of dawn.

The tip of the golden tail smashed the hard ostrich eggshell with a powerful slap, and the golden egg liquid flowed out. The female ostrich and the male ostrich had to run away sadly.

Mother Jin Weijian fed Bai Xue with the juice of ostrich eggs, but the old wound kicked by the male ostrich was infected again, pus and blood kept gushing out from the wound, and the high fever persisted.

Jin Weijian was in a semi-comatose state, but he was still most worried about Bai Xue's safety.Fearing that his rotten wound would attract prey from hyenas, Jinweijian quietly moved away from Baixue and never came back.

Sleeping Bai Xue seemed to have tasted the sweetness of ostrich eggs, swallowed, and a salty stench penetrated into its nostrils.Bai Xue blinked and woke up.Black Nose dragged half a rotten lesser flamingo, and its four thin legs that had just scabbed over were oozing blood again.

Due to the fever caused by the infection of the wound when teething, Baixue struggled on the verge of death and fell into a coma for two days and two nights.Xiaowang Cheetah Black Nose accompanied Baixue and waited for two days and two nights on a burnt tree stump 90 meters away from Baixue.

Black Nose waited patiently for Bai Xue to wake up.

The cheetah is one of the most unusually solitary and graceful felines.With its small round head, slender waist, and long, thin legs, it is an animal built for speed.Cheetah hunting relies on speed to chase prey alone. They do not hunt in groups like lions, nor do they live in groups like lions.

Although Black Nose is a cheetah, it is not yet an adult. It needs the company of its companions, to play and play with them, and to learn hunting skills together.

After coming to live by the salt lake, Snow White is the only animal who has helped Black Nose.Although they haven't had much contact with each other yet, in Black Nose's mind, Snow White is the only animal in this world that he can be a friend, a playmate, or even a sister.Black Nose doesn't want to lose Bai Xue, it wants to make Bai Xue get well soon.

Black Nose is not yet capable of catching greater flamingos alone. It squatted on the lake beach alone for two days and two nights, but found nothing.Black Nose had no choice but to go back to his old job, again risking being corroded by the alkaline lake water, wading across the mudflats around the lake to pick up dead lesser flamingos.

Black Nose stood next to the rotten half of the lesser flamingo it brought, looking at Bai Xue expectantly.

The rotten half of the lesser flamingo stinks, Bai Xue instinctively turned her head away.However, for some reason, a warm current rushed to Bai Xue's whole body in an instant, making it feel that this strange-looking little cheetah was its reliable friend.

Black Nose wanted to step forward and use its long tail to drive away the flies on Snow White.But it hesitated for a long time, waited quietly for a while, and then slowly retreated to a crumbling yellow locust tree with a crooked neck 30 meters away, carefully observing Baixue's every move.

Suddenly, Baixue wanted to play a game of holding branches with Black Nose.

After the cub grows up to six months, he no longer likes to play games with more physical contact, such as chasing, wrestling, scratching, etc., but prefers to play lurking and tracking games.If a lion cub runs away with a branch in its mouth, the other cubs will have an irresistible urge to grab that branch.As a result, there will be several lion cubs chasing it together. After catching up, each cub will desperately bite the branch and pull it in different directions.

Bai Xue forgot the pain of teething, picked up a branch in her mouth, and ran away.Black Nose subconsciously ran after Bai Xue. The cheetah ran much faster than the lion. After a while, Bai Xue and Black Nose grabbed the branches in their mouths at the same time and rolled into a ball.

Both Bai Xue and Hei Nose longed for a kind of warmth in their hearts, a kind of mutual comfort and caress between relatives.Although Baixue is a lion and Black Nose is a cheetah, they usually don't become partners, and even cheetahs are often the belly of lions, but they are still underage cubs and need a lot of love and care.

Fate caused them to lose their mother's love prematurely. They can only find their own partners in nature and seek a comfort that can replace mother's love.

(End of this chapter)