Chapter 105: The stomach of a raptor is very powerful
Even for these vultures, Chu Ye wanted to kill one to taste what they tasted like. After all, Chu Ye has never eaten vulture meat!
However, Chu Ye also knew that catching these vultures was no joke. These vultures are birds of prey in the sky, and they are also very ferocious and not so easy to hunt.
'Anyway, I'm going to catch a vulture and taste them. Although Chu Ye knew that it was not easy to catch these raptors, Chu Ye still wanted to give it a try.
These vultures are fighting for this rotten warthog in this bush. They were scrambling and fighting, looking very happy, as if they were born to eat these carrion.
In fact, vultures don’t really like eating carrion. Compared with rotten meat, fresh meat is more delicious. No animal likes to eat carrion. The reason why we say that vultures are scavengers is mainly because we often see them eating carrion in the savannah.
Because of this, it creates a misunderstanding for us that vultures like to eat carrion very much. They may not like to eat fresh meat.
Actually, this is not the case. Of course vultures also like to eat fresh meat. But when there is no fresh meat to eat, they have no choice but to eat carrion.
Although carrion is not delicious, for vultures, being able to eat some carrion is a good treat when they are very hungry.
In fact, it does not mean that only vultures eat carrion on the prairie. Many animals may eat carrion.
Animals like hyenas sometimes eat carrion. There are also animals like coyotes that may eat carrion.
For animals on the savanna, during the dry season, due to food shortages, they may eat a lot of food that they would not eat during the rainy season. Just like food like carrion, if it is during the rainy season, animals will not be willing to eat that kind of food.
After all, food is plentiful during the rainy season. Everyone can hunt fresh food, who would eat carrion!
This is the case for animals like vultures. During the dry season, due to food shortages, they can only eat carrion.
However, this behavior of vultures is difficult for humans to understand. To humans, carrion is poisonous food. If it is some spoiled meat that is human food, it will definitely be poisoned. But vultures can eat large amounts of carrion without getting poisoned.
This behavior of vultures is also very confusing to humans. Many biologists have studied this behavior of vultures. Finally, some conclusions were drawn.
The reason why vultures can eat carrion is because there is some powerful gastric acid in the vulture's stomach. In other words, the vulture's stomach can secrete very strong gastric acid. Because the vulture's stomach can secrete highly acidic gastric acid.
In this way, when the carrion enters the vulture's stomach, it will be completely disinfected by the powerful gastric acid in the vulture's stomach. Even if there are many viruses and bacteria in these carrion, the powerful gastric acid in the vulture's stomach can kill them.
Because of this, vultures can eat carrion without getting poisoned. This is also an ability that many animals possess. In comparison, the human stomach cannot eliminate a large number of germs.
As long as it is a wild animal in nature, it can eat some rotten food. There are also a lot of dirty foods that can be consumed. The reason why wild animals can eat rotten and dirty food is because their stomachs can secrete strong gastric acid, which allows them to digest a lot of rotten and spoiled food.
Because the human stomach eats clean food for a long time, the human stomach cannot secrete strong gastric acid. The pH value of human stomach acid is very low. It is simply not comparable to the pH value in an animal's stomach.
For animals like vultures that like to eat carrion, the pH value in their stomachs is basically PI=1. The pH value of some Hongguan vultures' gastric acid even reaches PH=0. Stomach acid as strong as a red-headed vulture can almost corrode metal.
Chu Ye also knew something about these vultures. Know that vultures have an extraordinary ability to eat carrion.
Chu Ye was also full of curiosity about the magical animals on the prairie, and he also wanted to taste the meat of these magical animals.
Vultures are a food that Chu Ye has never eaten before. After all, vultures are birds of prey. Generally, they fly at high altitudes. It is not easy for predators on the ground to catch raptors like vultures.
But when vultures start grabbing food on the ground, it's a good opportunity to catch them.
'Okay, today, I'm going to catch a vulture and taste their meat. 'Chu Ye decided to attack these vultures.
Besides, these vultures are now competing for food in this bush. They have no idea that there is a little lion watching them, and has regarded them as their hunting targets.
These vultures were still fighting over the carrion, unaware that a lion had already regarded them as food.
Chu Ye first hid in a bush five or six meters away from the group of vultures. This bush provided Chu Ye with good protection.
Because this bush is very dense. And the branches inside are also very soft, completely unable to stop Chu Ye from attacking his prey.
Chu Ye saw the right opportunity, and then suddenly sprang out from the bushes, and pounced directly on the group of vultures that were still fighting for the carrion.
This group of vultures were originally fighting for food. They never expected that at this moment, a lion would pounce in front of them.
When Chu Ye made a sneak attack, it was only five or six meters away from these vultures. At such a close distance, a lion cub like Chu Ye, whose body is close to that of an adult lioness, can pounce on its prey in one go.
Chu Ye pounced directly on this large group of vultures. It's just that these vultures are also very flexible in their reactions. Of course, when they sense danger, they immediately start to spread their wings and fly.
However, one unlucky one had no chance to fly. Chu Ye bit a vulture in the neck in one fell swoop.
Chu Ye's bite force was so amazing that when it bit a vulture's neck, the vulture died on the spot. Because Chu Ye just bit the vulture's neck lightly.
The other vultures saw a lion suddenly rushing in front of them, and they quickly flew away.
Chu Ye caught a vulture and bit its neck off immediately. After it bit off the neck of the vulture, it began to eat the meat of the vulture.
Chu Ye finally tasted the vulture's meat, and there was nothing special about it. Of course, it also feels different from eating the meat of some herbivores on the ground.
This vulture only weighs seven or eight kilograms. For Chu Ye, who is almost close to an adult lion, the meat of this vulture is just enough for him to have a taste of it.
After Chu Ye ate this vulture, he felt less hungry. Although the vulture meat could not satisfy Chu Ye at all.
But during this dry season, it is impossible for all the carnivores on the prairie to have enough to eat every day. As long as there is food to eat every day, even just a little food, it is already very good.
After Chu Ye ate the vulture, he returned to his camp. He was still resting under the big tree with the other little lions.
But no matter what, Chu Ye ate the meat of a raptor today. After Chu Ye ate the meat of this vulture, he became interested in eating raptor meat.
During this period of time, Chu Ye was thinking about how to eat the meat of another raptor. These days, the lionesses and male lions of the Chuye pride have not hunted any prey.
Chu Ye felt that this lion group seemed to have to live on its own now. If you don't help them find prey and help them hunt it, it will be difficult for them to eat food.
Especially these little lions, they need to eat food every day. If they cannot eat food every day, it will affect their growth and development.
For the sake of the lion group, Chu Ye would always help them find some food from time to time. But Chu Ye didn't want to keep helping the lions like this. If he always helps, the two lionesses and male lions will develop a psychological dependence on Chu Ye to find food for them.
'Humph, why should I keep looking for food for you? I have to look for food myself, no matter whether you can find food or not. '
Chu Ye no longer wants to look for food for his pride these days. He just goes out to look for some food for himself every day.
Since he was looking for food for himself, Chu Ye didn't want to hunt large prey. Because hunting large prey would be somewhat dangerous for Chu Ye.
Moreover, even if the hunt is successful, Chu Ye will not be able to finish the food by himself. When the time comes, he will still let other lions in his pride come to eat. In this case, it means that Chu Ye is helping his own pride. Hunted.
Therefore, Chu Ye does not want to hunt large prey now. He wants to hunt some small prey that can be eaten by himself.
So, these days, Chu Ye went out to hunt whenever he had nothing to do. But he didn't want to hunt big game, he wanted to hunt some small game.
Last time, after Chu Ye ate a vulture, he became interested in birds of prey. He was wondering if he could hunt a bird of prey for a taste.
'Today, I'm looking for another raptor to try. There should be many kinds of raptors on this prairie. '
When Chu Ye thought of this, he started walking towards the prairie in the distance. He wanted to see if there were any raptors he could hunt on the distant prairie.
At this moment, Chu Ye raised his head and looked at the sky. What he saw at first were still some vultures circling in the sky.
However, Chu Ye had already eaten the meat of a vulture, and he no longer wanted to hunt vultures. He wanted to try another kind of raptor.
At this time, Chu Ye saw another raptor soaring in the sky. This raptor flies higher than the vultures, soaring above the group of vultures.
'Um! That raptor can fly so high. It seems to be an amazing raptor. I will eat it today. '
Chu Ye had already chosen his target, and then began to keep an eye on this raptor, wanting to see if he had a chance to catch it.
This raptor first soared high in the sky. But soon, it seemed to have discovered its prey and began to slide slowly towards the ground.
'Okay, there's a show, it looks like this raptor is about to land. If it lands, I have a chance of catching it. Chu Ye first hid in a patch of grass, carefully observing the movements of this raptor.
This raptor hovered in the sky for a while, and then began to glide away towards its target.
Since this raptor was still quite far away from Chu Ye, it could not clearly see what kind of raptor it was. However, Chu Ye felt that it was definitely not a vulture. Because vultures always hunt together in groups.
And this raptor actually acts alone. It is obviously not a social animal and likes to hunt alone.
'Well, there must be some prey on the ground, otherwise, this raptor would not start sliding from the sky to the ground. '
Chu Ye was now certain that there must be some prey in this patch of grass. If this were not the case, this raptor would not be gliding from high altitude to the ground.
So Chu Ye began to carefully observe the situation on the ground. At this time, he saw a fat jumping rabbit looking for grass to eat on the grass more than a hundred meters away.
As soon as Chu Ye saw the jumping rabbit, he knew why the raptor in the sky suddenly slid to the ground.
'Well, it turns out that this raptor discovered this jumping rabbit. If I could keep following this jumping rabbit, I might catch this raptor. '
After Chu Ye thought about his strategy, he began to quietly follow the jumping rabbit. This jumping rabbit was really fat, which made Chu Ye want to drool when he saw it.
'I can't believe that in such a dry season, there are such fat jumping rabbits. Chu Ye looked at the fat jumping rabbit in front of him, and he still didn't understand. After all, it's the dry season and there shouldn't be fat jumping rabbits. '
This is the case on the prairie. No matter what kind of animal it is, as long as it is in the dry season, it will definitely be hungry and thin due to lack of food. Only when there is enough food can you become fat.
But the jumping rabbit in front of me is very strange. Although it is the dry season, it is still very plump. When Chu Ye saw this little lion, he wanted to hunt it and eat it.
