Chapter 12 Something more powerful than the Lion Brothers
The dry season continues, and life is getting harder for the lions.
There are only two female lions in the Jik lion pride, and their probability of catching prey is getting lower and lower.
During the lactation period, lionesses need a lot of food to supplement their nutrition so that they can produce some milk.
When lionesses don't have enough to eat, they produce much less milk.
And the lion cubs are getting bigger and bigger, and they need more and more milk.
In this way, the problem arises.
Lisa and Elsa don't have enough to eat themselves during the dry season, so how much milk can they produce for these ten three-month-old lion cubs!
Therefore, Chu Ye felt like he never had enough to eat during this period of time.
But this is the life of lions during the dry season. Both the young lions and the older lions will starve together.
However, it is not just the lions who are starving. All carnivores on the savanna have to tighten their belts during the dry season.
Because of this, during the dry season, the prairie becomes a battlefield for predators.
During the rainy season, carnivores are just busy hunting and giving birth to young.
During the dry season, carnivores are busy competing with other carnivores.
During the dry season, it is more difficult for carnivores to capture herbivores.
Because the largest numbers of wildebeest and zebra on the savanna left.
The rest are either the very large Big Five African beasts, or the very small jumping rabbits, warthogs, boar pigs, and dense badgers, which are relatively small prey.
For groups of carnivores, if they want to survive the dry season, they have to adopt some extraordinary strategies.
It is more difficult for carnivores to capture the five major African beasts and these smaller prey.
So, at this time, the carnivores began to set their sights on the cubs who were also carnivores.
During the dry season, the young become the main source of food for adult carnivores. At this time, the carnivores can only hunt the young of other carnivores.
Of course, if you are really hungry, you will have no choice but to eat your own cubs. Lions often eat their own cubs during the dry season.
Although this sounds very cruel. But in the animal world, especially for animals on the African savannah, this is also a normal thing.
After all, it is not easy for a small animal to grow into adulthood. And the cubs, even if eaten, can still regenerate.
The lions choose such an extreme lifestyle, which is also a measure to protect the population.
Although Chu Ye had just arrived on the prairie, it had only been more than three months. But I already feel what a cruel world this is. All kinds of animals exhaust their physical strength and wisdom in order to survive.
Don't say that animals are not intelligent. This is just using human intelligence to compare with the intelligence of animals. Of course, animals are not as smart as humans, but that does not mean that animals are not intelligent.
It can be said that every animal in the world is intelligent and they use their wisdom to survive in this world.
The dry season has just begun, and Chu Ye has already felt the cruel atmosphere on the African savannah. First, a stray male lion attacked the Jike lion group, and then, another pair of male lion brothers attacked the Jike lion group.
Although both attacks were successful, thanks to the joint efforts of Jike, the two lionesses, and Chu Ye, the danger was finally averted.
But Chu Ye knew that as the drought season continued to deepen, the dangers would increase.
Although Lisa and Aisha have to hunt every night, their hunting success rate is getting lower and lower. There are also fewer and fewer prey that can be caught.
As the number and weight of prey decreases, Lisa and Elsa are able to produce less and less milk.
Chu Ye and the other nine little lions never had enough to eat every day.
However, these little lions ate better some time ago and were very strong, so they were able to endure it for a while.
There are only two lion cubs, that is, two of the six lion cubs born to Elsa, a male lion cub and a lion cub, which is a bit worrying. Because these two little lions were not very strong when they were born.
In the next month, although my body became stronger. But compared with the other eight little lions, he is still a lot weaker.
Chu Ye was very worried about these two little lions. He felt that these two little lions might not survive the dry season. After all, the dry season has only been over for a month, and there are still four or five months left. Such a long time will be a severe test for the two thin lion cubs.
Because the weather is too hot, lions are almost active at night. During the day, they sleep and rest to recharge their batteries, and then go out to hunt at night.
The same goes for the lion cubs. In order to reduce physical exertion, they don't move much. When the lionesses are resting, they lie down next to the lionesses to rest.
But there was only one little lion, and he still didn't want to stay on his own.
This little lion is Chu Ye.
For Chu Ye, his every day life is very stressful now. Because he felt that danger might come to their pride at any time.
This morning, when the lionesses were resting, Chu Ye climbed up a big tree. He was looking around to see if there were any dangerous animals in their territory.
Originally, Chu Ye was still worried that other stray lions would invade. After all, the biggest enemy of a pride is some stray male lions, because they are the main factor that determines the fate of the young lions in a pride.
Whether the lion cubs can survive the dry season depends on whether the male lions in a pride can survive the dry season. If the male lions in a pride are defeated by other stray male lions before the dry season has passed, then the young lions in the pride will also be annihilated.
Only if the male lions in the pride can continuously defeat the invading male lions and can lead a pride through the dry season, then the young lions in the pride will be relatively complete.
Chu Ye already knows these common senses. What it worries most about is that its male lion father will be replaced by other male lions.
These days, Chu Ye has been watching from the big tree, wanting to see if any dangerous lions have entered their territory.
It's just that he has never seen another stray male lion come into their territory. Not only did I not see any other stray male lions, I also didn't see any other predators.
