Leopard's Feud

Chapter 10: Rescue the Baby Baboon

Jack is three years old.

Externally, Jack is indistinguishable from an adult male baboon.It is tall, with slender limbs, canine teeth shaped like daggers, and thick long hair forming a majestic lion-like face, completely inheriting the excellent genetics of the Jared family.

Jack's leopard sister Carla has also grown up, and has grown into a strong and agile adult leopard with fur like satin.Leopards are solitary animals and do not like to live in groups.According to the convention, when the leopard grows up, it is time to leave his mother and go out into the world alone.Camille hopes that Carla can return to the territory where her family has thrived for generations—the ancient and huge baobab tree. This territory can also be regarded as a gift from Camille as a mother to her daughter.It's just that Kara has to win this gift from the Jared baboon family herself.

Due to the training of her mother Camille, in Kara's mind, living on the ancient baobab tree is the ultimate goal of her life-it must take back the baobab tree where the leopard family has lived for generations, and pay tribute to Jie, who has been their enemy for generations. The Rhett baboon family takes revenge, no matter what price they pay and what means they use.

With the great ambition to take back the baobab tree, the young leopard Kara set off without hesitation. Accompanied by Kara was his entourage, the baboon brother Jack, who was firmly controlled by him.

Jack and Leopard sister Carla sneaked into the old territory of the Leopard family.

Jack looked far away at the ancient baobab tree in the center of the territory, seeing his own kind for the first time.

Jack hovered around Jared's colony of baboons, feeling a sense of intimacy.Of course, it doesn't know that Jared, the leader of the baboon, is his father, that his half-sister Angela lives happily here, and that all the baboons here are its relatives.

Carla and Jack settled in an acacia tree on the outskirts of the baboon territory, ready to attack Jared's baboon family.But before Carla could figure out a strategy to capture the baobab tree, courtship season interrupted the female leopard's time alone.

In recent days, the leopard Kara has had a heated fight with a young male leopard, and has no time to care about Jack's whereabouts.Sometimes, when the male leopard came near the acacia tree, the leopard sister Carla would even annoyed to drive Jack away.

Jack is finally free.

A deep sense of closeness brought Jack closer to the center of Jared's baboon family territory.It saw that every evening, the entire Jared baboon family climbed up the huge baobab tree in an orderly manner, and the young and old spent the night comfortably together; it saw that every morning, the adult baboons were cleaning their fur and catching lice on the grass under the tree, The young baboons were jumping up and down in the grass, chasing and playing with each other; it saw that from dawn to dusk, the baboons patrolled their territory leisurely, stopping and going, peacefully.This kind of comfortable and harmonious atmosphere was something that Jack, who grew up in the leopard's rocky cave, had never seen before, and it had never dared to imagine.

Of course, Jack wouldn't go near them.Jack is always under the surveillance of the leopard sister, and he is afraid that it will bring them the same disaster as the long-tailed monkey friends.

With the rainy season coming, the air becomes more and more humid.Torrential rains gradually swelled the river, and the wide channel flooded the bare land in the dry season.Both sides of the river were muddy.

After the rain, the earth under the sky became extraordinarily clear. This is a rare sunny day in the rainy season.

The lonely Jack involuntarily followed a group of young baboons playing by the river, watching them splashing water, chasing and playing with each other on the river bank.Suddenly, Jack seemed to have returned to the time when he played with the little vervet monkeys in his childhood, which was a rare happy memory in his childhood.

It's just that Jack can never get that time back.

Suddenly, the ear-piercing screams of the little baboons came, calling Jack, who was immersed in memories, back to the scene in front of him.Jack saw a baby baboon, less than three months old, slip into the deep water of the river.

The young baboons were frightened and dumbfounded. They looked at the little baboon spitting out blisters and gradually sinking, shouting and screaming, but no one dared to come forward to rescue them.Two young female baboons came after hearing the news. They held hands and walked slowly towards the deep water area, trying to hold the hand of the young baboons.Unexpectedly, there was a moving vortex in the middle of the river, and the two female baboons became unstable and were drawn into the deep water.

Jack rushed over in a hurry, picked up a branch on the river bank, and extended the branch to the two female baboons struggling in the deep water.Two female baboons grabbed the branches and floated in the river, and Jack pulled them out of the deep water.Jack then dropped the branch and swam downstream to find the baby baboon that had been washed away.

Jack has superb swimming skills.This is what it trained under the coercion of its mother leopard during its miserable childhood.The leopard mother forbids Jack to eat any wild fruit, because when Jack eats the wild fruit, the leopard mother will think of her enemy Jared the baboon, so she will be furious.Sometimes, Jack, holding the picked wild fruit in his hand, would be chased to the river by the leopard mother who was in a rage.

After the river surged, several terrifying eddies appeared in the center of the river, leading to the unfathomable depths of the river.None of the baboons on the river bank thought that Jack could rescue the baby baboon, and the fast-flowing river was engulfing Jack and the baby baboon.The female baboons who were picking fruit in the distance also rushed to the river after hearing the screams, chasing Jack and the baby baboons along the direction of the river.For a moment, weeping and shouting became one.

Just when all the baboons thought that the little baboon had no chance of surviving, Jack caught the little baboon.

With the help of the adult female baboons, Jack carried the baby baboon to the grass by the river.A lame female baboon rushed out from the group of baboons and held the baby baboon tightly in her arms. It seemed that it should be the mother of the baby baboon.The lame female baboon kept flapping and shouting, but no matter what, the baby baboon in her arms still didn't wake up, and seemed to have been dead for a long time.

The lame female baboon was still holding her calf tightly, her eyes staring, dazed from the overstimulation.Its palm is still mechanically beating the baby baboon, as if by doing so, its baby will come back to life.

Suddenly, Jack snatched the baby baboon from the arms of the female baboon and laid the baby baboon flat on the grass.

In an instant, it was like a frying pan exploded, and the sound of baboons on the river bank was loud.All the baboons shouted wildly and followed Jack to snatch the little baboon.Jack picked up the baby baboon, bared his fangs, swayed his slender mane like a lion, and roared like a leopard.Jack's ferocious look and terrible roar repelled the baboons, making them afraid to act rashly.Anyway, the baby baboon is now in the hands of this young male that no one has ever seen.

Jack flattened the baby baboon again on the grass, sat down next to the baby's head, pressed on the baby's chest, and then it took a breath into the air, opened the baby's mouth with his hands, and let it out.This cycle goes on and on, once, twice, three times... Doing this familiar movement, Jack remembered an adventure in the deep forest with his leopard sister Kara when he was two years old.Thinking of this, a gleam of warmth briefly flowed through Jack's heart.

After more than 20 minutes, the little baboon spewed out several mouthfuls of dirty water and gradually resumed breathing.

The female baboons made melodious grunts and took turns hugging and kissing the baby baboons.Watching their companions finally wake up, the little baboons also let out gentle chirping noises.

The lame female baboon sat in front of Jack together with her baby baboons, as well as the two young female baboons rescued by Jack, making short and soft sounds.Jack grew up in the leopard's cave and could not understand the calls of baboons, but he understood that they were expressing gratitude.

After all, Jack has the heart of a baboon.

A sense of pride welled up, sweeping away the depression of being coerced by the leopard mother and daughter for nearly a year.For a moment, Jack suddenly found how much he wanted to join them and live with these baboons who had similar faces to him.

In fact, the lame female baboon in front of Jack is his half-sister Angela.Angela's hind legs were bitten by the leopard Karosa 13 years ago, and the little baboon that was rescued was her little daughter Dora.Of the two young female baboons, the smaller, clumsier one was Angela's eldest daughter, Ella.Ella's best playmate, Kemi, is slender and beautiful with golden hair.

(End of this chapter)