Chapter 32 The test of the dry season
The same goes for the lion Jike.
When it came back from patrolling its territory that day, it saw Chu Ye's strange look and was a little puzzled.
They thought it was a lion cub from another pride that came to their pride, and it wanted to bite Chu Ye.
But when it came to Chu Ye, it smelled a familiar smell, so it stopped talking to Chu Ye.
The other little lions also began to regard Chu Ye as a different kind of little lion. After some time, everyone recognized that Chu Ye was still the same little lion.
Chu Ye also felt a little awkward at first about some changes in his body shape. But slowly he got used to it.
After all, I am a lion, not a human. Only humans care about appearance. Animals don't care about external things at all, all they need is food. Nothing interests animals more than food.
The Jike lions didn't pay much attention to the changes in Chu Ye's figure. It's just that they felt something strange about Chu Ye at first. Soon, they no longer paid attention to Chu Ye.
The dry season continues, and for the Jik lions, every day of the dry season is a torment. Because they have nine cubs to raise. This is a great test for the Jike lion group.
Not to mention that the Jik lion pride has to raise nine children. Even if they raise none, it is very difficult for their three adult lions to live in the dry season. Not to mention living with the whole family.
In fact, the animal world is similar to the human world. Especially for animals on the African savannah, they are almost a replica of human society. It's just not as complicated as human society.
For a group of animals, their life is like a family in human society. Everyone lives together, and if anyone has difficulties, they will lend a helping hand.
It's the same for a pride of lions. They hunt together and raise their offspring together. If there are any problems, we can discuss them together and solve them.
Chu Ye has been living among this lion group for four or five months, and he has become accustomed to the life of the lion group. He has completely integrated into this small society.
Chu Ye is very aware of the many problems his lion group is facing now. The first is to solve the problem of eating. These nine little lions are the biggest drag on the Jik lion pride. Of course it is also the best hope.
If these nine little lions can all grow up, then the lion group will prosper.
They're only halfway through the long dry season, and they've already lost a lion cub. In the coming days, life during the dry season will become increasingly difficult.
In fact, it’s not just the lions who are like this. The same goes for other animals. For all kinds of animals living on the prairie, the dry season is a kind of suffering.
For carnivores, the dry season makes it difficult to hunt enough prey. Because wildebeest and zebra, the two most abundant herbivores on the savanna, have to leave the Serengeti savanna during the dry season to live in the Manimara National Park in the north.
The carnivores will not migrate with these three herbivores. They will stay in the original place through the long dry season.
Lions are one of the remaining carnivores. It turns out that lions are the largest carnivores on the African savannah, and they need more food. But during the dry season, without wildebeest and zebra, life becomes very difficult for the lions.
Of course, the same goes for other animals, like the group of wild dogs that are now next to the Jik lion pride.
The life of this group of wild dogs is also very difficult. They also have to raise a group of cubs, and they also face food shortages.
The leader of this group of wild dogs is a young and strong wild dog couple.
Kurt and Hill are the leaders of this group of wild dogs. They rule this large family consisting of more than twenty wild dogs.
Because there are more wild dogs in this family, they need more food. But during the dry season, whether they are lions or wild dogs, they all face the same difficulties in life.
Now it's not just the lions who are hungry, but also the wild dogs.
Kurt's wild dog group has not succeeded in hunting for several days. Because there are no obvious herbivores such as wildebeest and zebra on the grassland. Although there are still some small herbivores, these animals usually hide in underground caves.
These two animals, like jumping rabbits and warthogs, usually hide in caves at night and are only active during the day. Catching these two animals is more difficult.
Kurt and Hill have been discussing how to get more prey these days. For this group of wild dogs, they need to eat food every day.
After all, they have dozens of growing cubs, and these cubs cannot go hungry. Because if they are hungry, it will affect their health.
These pups will grow very slowly if they don't have enough food for a long time. It won't even grow. In this case, it will be difficult for these cubs to grow to adulthood.
All this is a problem that must be solved for the Kut wild dog group. If they want their more than ten cubs to grow up, then this wild dog group must feed these dozen cubs every day.
In the past few days, although Kurt and Hill were leading their wild dog army in search of food, they returned in vain every day. More than a dozen cubs were crying for food every day. All this made Kurt and Hill very anxious.
Although Nila's hyena group left, it gave the Kut wild dog group a large hunting space. But in the dry season, no matter how large your hunting space is, it is of little use, because there is no prey for you to hunt, and it will be useless no matter how large your territory is.
Kurt and Hill are also experienced hunters. When they can't find other prey, they have to set their sights on their neighbors, the Jik lion pride.
Coote and Hill already knew that the Jik lion pride had nine cubs, and these cubs were only four or five months old. It has no ability to resist, but it has grown to a weight of more than ten kilograms.
Every little lion is an irresistible temptation for the wild dogs. Because as long as they catch one lion cub, they can give their dozen cubs a full meal.
In this way, when Kurt and Hill could not catch other prey, they had to take some more risky methods.
One night, at midnight, the moonlight outside was very bright. Although it was midnight, I could see far away by the moonlight.
