Chapter 23: Training other lion cubs to climb trees
The previous two encounters with the invasion of stray male lions were just competitions between adult lions. This time, he really felt how dangerous and difficult it was to be a little lion and survive on the prairie.
Although the lions put in a lot of effort in this battle, all three adult lions were injured and they also lost a little lion.
But they defeated the hyenas and killed several hyenas.
They still won this war.
Some of the hyenas that were killed were eaten by the hyenas themselves. But there were still two that were not snatched away by them.
That is the one that Lisa bit to death, and the one that the lion Jike bit to death.
Now the two hyena carcasses were dragged under the big tree by the two lionesses.
Just now, Lisa and Aisha were just looking for their children and did not eat the hyena meat.
The male lion may be too tired and doesn't want to eat for the time being. It just lies on the big rock to rest.
Of course, it is also possible that male lions are unwilling to eat hyena meat. After all, hyena meat is not nearly as tasty as the meat of some herbivores.
If the lions are not in the dry season and food is scarce, they will not eat the hyenas even if they kill them.
But now is the dry season, and food is very scarce for all carnivores.
Especially meat, it is food that carnivores must eat.
Carnivores are meant to eat meat. They must use meat to replenish their physical strength. If they do not eat meat for a long time, they will get sick and have no energy to hunt.
After the male lion and the two lionesses found the cub, they ate the two hyenas together.
Therefore, these two hyena carcasses temporarily solved the stomach problem of the Jike lion group. Not only did it solve the stomach problems of three adult lions. Several lion cubs also tasted hyena meat.
Chu Ye also heard that hyena meat was not delicious and that the lions were unwilling to eat the hyena meat after they had preyed on the hyenas.
However, Chu Ye was also a little curious and wanted to taste what this hyena meat tasted like.
Although the lion cubs are three to four months old, they still mainly feed on breast milk. But they have already begun to try to eat meat.
Chu Ye also had a taste of hyena meat. However, he felt that hyena meat was not much different from the meat of other herbivores. It's not as smelly as the legend says.
Of course, Chu Ye may be still relatively young and has not eaten much meat, and it is not very sensitive to the taste of meat.
Therefore, he couldn't taste the special taste of hyena meat. It just felt like the meat of other animals.
It's like a person who drinks regularly can taste various wines, but if he doesn't drink often, he feels that all wines have the same taste.
Although for Zike, Lisa and Aisha, they feel that hyena meat is not delicious. But when they are very hungry, no matter what kind of meat they eat, they will find it delicious.
This is like if a person doesn't eat meat for a long time, no matter what kind of meat he eats, he will feel very delicious.
Now Jike, together with two lionesses, ate two hyenas.
In this battle, Jike and the others gained quite a bit. Although they lost a lion cub, they got two adult hyenas in exchange. In the end, they still took advantage.
Life must go on, for Chu Ye and these little lions. They learned a lesson today. Now they all know that this prairie is full of dangers.
Not only are adult stray male lions coming to challenge their lion father at any time, but there are also many predators that are coming to steal these young lions at any time.
Chu Ye felt tremendous pressure. After all, it was still very weak and unable to resist those strong predators.
These days' experiences made Chu Ye know that he must become stronger. Only by becoming stronger can we protect ourselves and the pride of lions.
After this incident, Chu Ye felt that these little lions were really in danger. Although this time three adult lions beat away a group of hyenas.
But these hyenas may come for revenge.
Hyenas are very vengeful animals. This failure will definitely be remembered by the hyena queen, and she will definitely find another opportunity to settle accounts with the lions.
After this incident happened, the Lions felt that they were also responsible for this incident.
If it had been with the lion cubs today, the hyena group might not dare to attack.
So, starting from the next day, the male lion stopped patrolling its territory during the day. It felt that it still had to stay with the little lion, so that it would be more complete.
Because of this, even if a stray lion invades, it can hide the lion cubs first and then compete with the stray lion.
The two lionesses were also very careful. They try to hunt at night and stop hunting during the day. Because animals like hyenas like to go out in the morning to look for food.
Chu Ye thought about how he should protect himself and these little lions.
He knew that he was capable of protecting himself. After all, he could climb trees.
Neither adult lions nor adult hyenas are good at climbing trees.
It's just that the other little lions don't have the ability to climb trees. In addition to feeding and playing every day, they have no intention of training the ability to climb trees.
"No, I want to train these little lions. If they can climb trees, they can avoid other predators in the future."
In the past few days, Chu Ye had been thinking about how to protect the little lions in the pride. He felt that the only thing he could do was to teach these little lions to climb trees.
So, after Chu Ye had eaten and drank enough, he began to teach these little lions to climb trees.
It's just that these little lions don't seem to be interested in climbing trees. No matter how Chu Ye taught them, they just didn't want to climb the tree.
Especially the little male lion in Elsa's litter, it was unwilling to climb the tree no matter what. This little male lion is also a little lion that is not very strong. After the thin little lioness was taken away by the hyena queen, now only this little male lion is left who is relatively thin.
Perhaps because his body is too thin, this little male lion is not willing to climb trees at all. After all, climbing trees is very physically demanding.
Although the other little lions are not willing to climb trees, they can still be trained to some extent. Especially Xiao Hei, maybe because of his strong body, he was able to climb to the top of the tree.
