lion heart

Chapter 9 The Jackal Family

Finally, Baixue's four immature canine teeth pushed through the gums like buds emerging from the ground in the rainy season. It defeated death again and survived.

In the morning light of dawn, a soft mist formed on the ground, drifting quietly along the beach of Lake Natron with the wind.Baixue started to walk towards the lake beach, and when he passed under the crooked-necked yellow-skinned locust tree where Wang Cheetah's black nose was, it let out a low growl.Today, Baixue not only wants to catch a fat and big flamingo and have a good meal, but also helps Black Nose catch a big flamingo, let him eat half and hide half.

Baixue is prowling, crawling on the white crystal salt of the lake beach.Black Nose followed closely behind Bai Xue step by step.When they were only 90 meters away from the lake, they were dumbfounded.Overnight, there was not a single flamingo, either greater or lesser flamingos.The lake water rippling back and forth silently pushes the pink or fiery red feathers of the flamingos to the lake beach, and the lake beach is full of scattered footprints and messy feathers of flamingos.

When the algae in Lake Natron is running low, greater and lesser flamingos migrate elsewhere.They are constantly migrating between several salt lakes near the Great Rift Valley, giving the algae in each salt lake enough time to grow back.They won't come back until the next year when Lake Natron's algae blooms.

Disappointed, Black Nose picked up one of the longest and thickest fiery red feathers from the lake and chewed it. Bai Xue jumped up and bit the tip of Black Nose's tail lightly.Black Nose turned around, aimed at Bai Xue's head and gave a light slap, Bai Xue took the opportunity to bite the flamingo feathers in Black Nose's beak, and competed with each other, constantly pulling in their respective directions.The feathers were broken, and the two of them fell on the lake beach with half of the feathers in their mouths, rolling into a ball.

One lion and one leopard, the two poor abandoned children forgot the frustration of losing the flamingo, and they were so excited to play and play on the empty lake beach, playing childhood games...

Until they lie exhausted on the lake beach.

From the silent lakeshore came the anxious barking of the jackal couple calling the cub home.

Black Nose sat up vigilantly, jumped onto a high pile of salt, and slyly said "Ah-ah" to Bai Xue twice.It knew where the little jackal was, and it seemed that there would be another flamingo to eat today.Black Nose wanted to snatch two and a half greater flamingos from the little jackal, instead of eating half and hiding the half, but eating half for himself and leaving the half for Snow White.

The pair of golden-backed jackals living in the swamps of Lake Natron devoted all their energy to raising their offspring.They think that the little cheetah Black Nose is a potential threat in their territory, and wish they could drive it out one day sooner.From the first day when they found Blacknose looming in their territory, they never stopped chasing and killing Blacknose, lest the grown-up Blacknose would threaten the safety of their only son, the little jackal.Although the Jackals are tenacious and skilled at hunting, God favored Hei Nai, and Hei Nai has grown safely to nine months old.

Now their fortunes have been reversed.Now Black Nose can't tolerate the family of golden-backed jackals, and wants to capture them as prey to avenge his long-term pursuit.

The little jackal is the only child of the golden-backed jackal couple.It has enjoyed the tender care of its parents since childhood, and has never known what hunger is and what danger is.

The mother jackal is the only jackal in the entire Natron Lake area that preys on greater flamingos.It can always find the mouth of a freshwater stream and dive into the water.At first, the flock of greater flamingos instinctively backed away.But the mother jackal lay flat on the water, pretending to be resting in the water, and the flock of flamingos gradually approached.Because the greater flamingo must go to the stream to drink some fresh water to quench its thirst, and the mother jackal seems to be very kind, showing no malice.Just as the flock of greater flamingos approached here on their stilt-like feet, the mother jackal struck out cleanly and could bite a greater flamingo in one fell swoop.

The jackal father is quick, smart and quick-witted, and he stays behind to take care of the little jackal and never let the little jackal go away.But the little jackal is always eager to go together to eat mushrooms or catch insects like other little jackals.

Today, just as the sun was rising, mother jackal howled for father jackal.Now, not even a flamingo can be found.In his panic, the jackal father hastily blocked the little jackal in the hole with twigs, and hurried to the stream where the jackal mother was.

The little jackal squeezed through the gap between the branches and slipped out.The little jackal wants to find the half of the great flamingo that mother jackal hid yesterday, gather other little jackals to eat, and then follow them to eat fresh big mushrooms.Black Nose has been observing the little jackal secretly for a long time, and he knows the little jackal's whereabouts clearly.Black Nose really wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to steal Jackal's flamingo, but Black Nose never acted on his own.It is afraid that once the matter is exposed, the Jackals will make trouble for it.

Now, Black Nose is not afraid anymore, the lion Baixue is its friend and will definitely protect it.

Relying on his memory, the little jackal came to the middle of the two streams and dug eagerly, trying to quickly find the half of the greater flamingo that was hidden by his mother.The little jackal was sneaky, afraid of being discovered by his father who was looking for him.

Accidentally, the little jackal dug into the python's lair.

A female African boa constrictor gently wraps her freshly sunned body around a snake egg.For three months, the boa constrictor did this every day, waiting for her babies to be born.The sudden invasion caused the boa constrictor to rush out of the nest instinctively and swallowed the little jackal's hind legs. The little jackal didn't even have time to call for help to its loving parents.

When the jackal couple found the little jackal, one third of the little jackal's body had been swallowed into the python's mouth.The jackal couple cried out in despair, desperately grabbing and biting the python, forcing it to spit out their beloved son.They didn't dare to drag the little jackal out of the python's mouth, for fear of hurting their precious son.

At this time, the temperature on the ground is getting higher and higher.

Pythons are ectothermic animals whose body temperature changes with the temperature of the surrounding environment.If the body temperature of the boa constrictor reaches forty degrees Celsius, there is a danger of death.The boa constrictor must leave in time, enter the ground, and lower its body temperature.The moment the boa constrictor was about to spit out the little jackal into the hole, a black shadow descended from the sky. The little cheetah bit the little jackal's neck with its black nose, and dragged the little jackal out of the boa python's mouth.

Black Nose wants to cut the little jackal in two, eat half for himself, and keep the other half for Snow White.

Howling, the jackal couple rushed towards their beloved son.

The little lion Baixue felt a little strange when he heard the roar of the black nose.

In the roar of the black nose, there were also the piercing howls of the jackal couple.Bai Xue immediately gave up chasing water chickens by the stream and rushed to her friend.

Black Nose is competing with the father jackal for the little jackal.On one side, the mother jackal put her ears back in panic, tucked her tail, and squeaked, begging Black Nose to let her cub go.Due to the corrosion of the python's gastric juice, the little jackal's two hind legs had lost their fur and were bleeding profusely.The boa constrictor ran around, avoiding the messy Black Nose and Jackal's family.

Bai Xue, who rushed over, didn't understand the situation at all. In the confusion, she didn't know how to save Hei Nai.Bai Xue licked its four not-so-sharp canine teeth that had just grown, and bit the boa constrictor whose head had entered the nest in two.

The Jackals were frightened, and the screaming stopped abruptly.Black Nose first looked at Bai Xue in amazement, and then quickly pounced on the rear half of the boa constrictor that was still writhing around.The little jackal took the opportunity to escape from Black Nose's control, and was embraced by the mother jackal.

The Jackals carefully picked up their precious son and went home, just like Bai Xue was forcibly brought home by her mother after getting into trouble when she was a child.Bai Xue looked at the sad and regretful eyes of the jackal mother, and thought of its mother Jinweijian.

Bai Xue stared for a long time at the backs of the Jackal family of three going away.

The next day, before dawn, half a greater flamingo that was no longer fresh appeared in the reeds behind the huge rock where Baixue was hiding.Mother Jackal flashed and disappeared.

This is a gift from mother jackal to Snow White to repay her kindness for rescuing the little jackal inadvertently.

(End of this chapter)