Chapter 46: Female Baboon Overflowing with Motherly Love
Chu Ye felt that it was because the baboons were afraid of wild dogs that they did not dare to come to the ground. Therefore, Chu Ye no longer wanted to observe these baboons.
But just when Chu Ye didn't want to observe these baboons, he suddenly heard the screams of some baboons in the group of baboons.
Moreover, you can also see the leaves on the big trees where the baboons live are shaking constantly. It seemed as if some prey had climbed up the tree to attack these baboons.
Upon seeing this situation, Chu Ye was very puzzled.
"What's going on? Could it be that the wild dogs climbed up the big tree against the will of the gods? They can actually climb up the big tree and attack the little baboons."
Chu Ye watched as the branches and leaves on the big tree where the baboons lived kept shaking, as if some hunter had climbed onto the big tree.
Now he is worried about these baboons again!
"No, I have to go and see. I want to see what kind of prey it is. It can climb up the big tree and sneak attack the baboon."
Chu Ye thought as he got down from the big tree and walked towards the group of baboons in the distance.
He walked swiftly among the bushes, and soon ran to the big trees where a group of baboons lived.
It's just that when Chu Ye came here, he didn't see the shadow of the wild dog.
Apparently, it was not wild dogs attacking the baboons.
"What's going on? There are no wild dogs here?"
Chu Ye looked around and did not see a wild dog. He could conclude that it was not a wild dog attacking the baboon.
"Is it a cheetah?"
After Chu Ye couldn't see the wild dog, he immediately thought of another carnivore.
Cheetahs can be said to be the natural enemies of baboons. Relatively speaking, attacks by wild dog packs are only accidental events that occur in the lives of baboons. The real threat to baboons is the cheetah.
Because cheetahs can climb trees, they can climb up tall trees easily. Moreover, cheetahs are very slender and very good at moving in trees.
Baboons, animals that almost live in big trees, are not afraid of hunters who can only move on the ground.
Even lions can climb trees, but because of their bulky bodies, they are not good at moving on big trees. Even if a lion can climb a tree and kill a baboon, the likelihood of success is slim.
The cheetah is different. As long as the cheetah hunts baboons in the trees, the success rate is very high. Because cheetahs can see all the way to the tops of trees. And the lion simply can't do it.
Chu Ye saw that it was not a wild dog that was attacking the baboon, so he thought it might be a cheetah.
So, Chu Ye began to carefully observe the baboons running around on the big tree.
When he saw it, he became even more confused. It seems that he not only wronged someone's wild dog, but also wronged someone's cheetah.
There was no shadow of the cheetah on the big tree. It's just that these baboons are running back and forth on the big tree, as if they are fighting with each other.
"Oh, it turns out the baboons are fighting among themselves!"
Chu Ye felt that since there were no hunters attacking the baboons, it must have been an internal struggle among the baboons.
"What's going on with these baboons? They were just attacked by a group of wild dogs. They don't know how to unite, so what are they fighting about?"
"Could it be that the adult male baboon inside the baboon wants to challenge the baboon leader?"
Chu Ye didn't see clearly why the baboons were fighting at first. He just followed his own thoughts and thought about some things that might happen in the baboons' lives.
But after Chu Ye took a closer look, he felt something was wrong again. Because it saw not some male baboons fighting, but some female baboons fighting.
Seeing this situation, Chu Ye was puzzled again.
"What's going on? Could it be that there is civil strife in the harem of the baboon leader? These female baboons are fighting because of competition for favor." Chu Ye was thinking wildly again.
But after Chu Ye observed it for a while, he still didn't feel like it. Because he saw that these female baboons seemed to be fighting for the baby baboons. One of the female baboons kept snatching babies from the arms of other female baboons.
The other female baboons were obviously unwilling to give their cubs to this female baboon, so this female baboon started fighting with them.
But the fighting abilities of these female baboons are all about the same. This female baboon wants to snatch someone else's baby. But it snatched it several times to no avail. Other female baboons work very hard to protect their babies.
"Hey, what's wrong with this female baboon? Why do you want to rob other people's children?" Chu Ye became more and more confused as he watched.
The leader of this group of baboons, Lucky, just sat in front of a tree fork. He simply ignored the female baboons fighting there, as if it was a normal thing.
"What's going on? What's wrong with this female baboon? Why is it trying to rob other people's children?" Chu Ye was a little confused about the behavior of this female baboon.
Just after Chu Ye thought for a while, he felt that he suddenly understood what was going on.
"Oh, I know, it must be the cub of this female baboon, which was hunted by the group of wild dogs yesterday. It has no children, and its maternal love is overflowing, and it wants to snatch other people's children."
Chu Ye finally understood what was going on. This female baboon seemed unable to accept the loss of her cubs, so she wanted to take other people's babies as her own.
"Is it because baboons are primates, they have richer emotions, and the maternal love of female baboons is stronger than that of other animals."
Chu Ye couldn't explain the behavior of this female baboon. He could only think about it and infer the reasons.
In fact, it's not just baboons that are overflowing with maternal love, but other animals too. Someone once saw a lioness in Serengeti National Park capture a cheetah cub after losing her cub and raise the cheetah as her own cub.
From this point of view, whether it is a human or an animal, as long as it is a female, it will have an innate desire to be a mother. When you lose your own child, you want to use other people's children as your own.
This female baboon seems to be like that. Because his own child was hunted by a group of wild dogs, he wanted to snatch other people's children to raise.
It seems that he loves his child very much and cannot accept the reality of losing his child.
"But didn't that group of wild dogs hunt and kill three baby baboons yesterday? These three baby baboons can't all be the children of this one female baboon."
Although Chu Ye made the correct inference, he still couldn't explain why this female baboon who lost her cubs was so overflowing with maternal love. Other female baboons who also lost their cubs did not do what this one did!
Regarding this issue, Chu Ye couldn't figure it out for a while.
