Leopard's Feud

Chapter 2 Karosa and Jared

Camille wants to raise the baby baboon—it wants the baby baboon to grow up drinking baboon blood and eating baboon meat.It wants the baby baboon to become a master hunter who can completely wipe out the baboon family.

In the early morning, Camille hunted and killed Anita, the wife of the baboon leader Jared.Camille knew that the baby baboon was Jared and Anita's newborn son Jack.Camille came up with such a vicious plan because of Camille's hatred of the baboon family.

The feud between the leopard family and the baboon family began 18 years ago.

Even Jared, the baboon leader, has to admit that he and his family are intruders in their territory. 18 years ago, Jared's father and his mother - two large South African baboons from two mutually hostile groups - had a passionate relationship and gave birth to Jared.For this reason, the three members of Jared's family were expelled from the group, left the savannah where the South African baboons lived for generations, and came to the depths of the jungle.

The three of Jared's family have just arrived, and they are cautiously discussing life in this new territory.In order to avoid unnecessary conflicts with local carnivores, they mainly eat vegetarian food, and only catch some insects and small lizards when they are hungry.Therefore, Jared met a lot of good friends who played together, including Ka Rosa, the mother of Leopard Camille.

Karosa is two years younger than Jared, the only daughter of her mother.When it opened its eyes for the first time to peek out at the outside world, it was Jared the baboon.Jared the baboon was gathering root vegetables and catching insects at the entrance of their burrows.That day, Karosa's mother went hunting in the distance. Karosa greeted Jared friendly, and the little baboon Jared gave her two delicious grasshoppers.

From then on, whenever her mother went out to hunt, Carosha would crawl out of the hole, stretch her neck and make a grunt to indicate that everything was safe, and Jared would come to her in response.They play together, hunt grasshoppers, lizards, and even bees together, and drink water from the spring together.In addition, Jared also taught Carosha how to identify the ripeness of the fruit and how to pry open the seeds of the fruit.They had a great time together, and the lonely little leopard Karosa considered Jared the baboon her best friend.

When Karosha was three months old, she was able to go out alone, and even temporarily leave her mother for most of the day.The tall trees, dense bushes, colorful flowers, colorful butterflies, fluttering birds, and sprinting beasts all attracted Karosha's curious eyes.Karosa secretly took her best friend Jared along with her, and they bounced and jumped along the way, enjoying the joy of being children of the jungle.

The sky gradually darkened.

The trails in the forest are intricate, Carosha gets lost, and Jared can't figure out the direction to go home.So they climbed up the big tree together and spent a terrible night in the jungle.Bats were flying in groups in the night sky, and owls were making eerie calls on the branches.Deep in the forest, there were waves of roars that made their hair stand on end...

However, in the jungle, the most terrible enemy is their own belly.

The strong hunger tormented them, so that they could not get a moment of peace.Jared not only needs to keep digging bulbs and root vegetables, picking fruits to fill his stomach, but he also needs to catch a large number of lizards, grasshoppers and snails to feed Karosa.But they were still hungry and dizzy.

Karosha and Jared stop and go.

When the warthog's burrow appeared before them, Karosha's listless eyes widened and her mouth watered.Mom had fed baby warthogs to him, but hadn't taught him how to catch baby warthogs. "Ow-ow", Karosa asked for help from her friend Jared.

After the mother warthog went out to look for food, Jared found a branch, approached the warthog's burrow quietly, and tried to put the branch in, and the squeaking sound of the little warthog immediately came from the burrow.Jared happily grunted at Karosha, signaling Karosha to take the opportunity to go into the crypt and take out the little warthog.

Caroza quickly pulled out two baby warthogs, one she held in her mouth, and one Jared held in her hand for it.They quickly moved away from the warthog nest and climbed up a nearby acacia tree.By the time Karosa devoured a baby warthog and turned around to ask Jared for her second baby warthog, Jared had already torn most of the baby warthog in its palm .These were some newborn warthogs, not much bigger than a mouse, and a little piglet couldn't fill Karossa's stomach at all.Carosha's stomach growled, watching Jared munching on the warthog cubs made her feel more and more uncomfortable.

Before that, Karosha never knew that Jared could eat meat.A feeling of being cheated gnawed at Karosha's heart.It originally thought that Jared was his friend and was always helping him, but he didn't expect that Jared was just using him to secretly learn leopard hunting skills.

In the distance, the anxious call of the leopard mother was heard. Karosha ignored Jared, who was still chirping, and jumped off the acacia tree alone, following her mother's voice.

Since then, Karosha no longer allows Jared to get close to it, and no longer regards Jared as her friend.

As they grow older, there is a growing feeling of hostility in their hearts.

Three-year-old Karosa is already able to hunt impalas on her own.

Impalas have been the staple food of leopards since ancient times.All leopards agree that impalas are their only food.Neither lions nor hyenas will easily prey on impalas.

Impalas are slender, nimble and agile, with sensitive hearing and vision.When frightened, they jump three meters high and nine meters away.Lions and hyenas are far behind, and generally do not use impalas as their staple food.Only the leopard is not only agile and responsive, but also good at sneak attacks.Therefore, eating impala has become a leopard's patent.

However, when three-year-old Caroza went out hunting, she found that the laws of the jungle were broken.Jared attacked an impala like a leopard in broad daylight and ate it.It turned out that Jared was its competitor, and it actually played with Jared and became friends without telling its mother when it was a child.

Karosha felt a great threat and a regret she had never felt before.

(End of this chapter)