Chapter 173 The War Between Lionesses
As soon as he saw this situation, Chu Ye felt a little confused. He didn't understand what happened to these lionesses today, why all of them were injured.
'The lionesses must have hunted the buffalo again, maybe it was an adult male buffalo. Although the lionesses worked together, they still failed to hunt it, and all of them were covered in wounds. '
Chu Ye had no way of knowing the truth of the matter, so he could only speculate like this.
Actually, here's the thing.
This morning, Nika and Feifei, six female lions, went hunting in their own territory again. They saw a group of buffaloes on the east side of their territory.
Originally, Nika thought that buffalo would be difficult to deal with, and he did not want to hunt buffalo. But today, it searched for a long time in its own territory and found no other animals suitable for hunting.
So, Nika decided to try her luck, although there would be some dangers. But if you don’t take risks, how can you succeed? Anything successful requires taking risks.
Also, for a pride of lions, only by venturing to hunt large prey such as buffalo can the entire pride be fed.
Lions have huge appetites. As long as they eat one meal, they can go several days without eating again.
Hunting is inherently a very hard and dangerous thing. If they are not very hungry, lions are not willing to hunt. They prefer to lie under the shade of trees and rest.
People are lazy. If it is not for life, who would be willing to go to work!
The same goes for lions. If they are not very hungry, they would rather hide under the shade of trees and rest, so why would they be willing to risk hunting.
We see lions always looking lazy, which is normal. If they were not driven by hunger, how could they fight with equally powerful herbivores.
If the lions really have any thoughts, they must be thinking in their hearts, 'I will never be a lion again in my next life. Even if I am a little bird, I can fly freely in the sky. '
This is indeed the case. Lions have to work hard every day for the life of the pride. He lived a life of starvation and precariousness.
Especially lionesses, they pay more. Not only do they have to raise children, they also have to hunt and feed the entire pride.
Relatively speaking, the lion's life may be easier. At least they won't be hunting all day.
Lionesses are different, they have to run for the life of the lions every day. Sometimes, while hunting, you may get injured or even die.
But no matter what, since I am a lioness, I must fulfill the responsibilities of a lioness. No matter what kind of danger lies ahead, you must rush forward when the time comes.
Yesterday morning, Nika led Feifei and the other lionesses to hunt in their own territory, just like going to work every day.
Originally, they soon saw a warthog and wanted to hunt together. But this warthog was very alert and sensed something was wrong, so he ran into the territory of the lions to the east.
Nika and the others saw that the prey they were chasing ran into the territory of other lions, so they had no choice but to give up.
Female lions can only hunt within their own territory and cannot go into the territories of other lions. These are some of the rules of their pride.
After Nika saw the warthog escape, they didn't dare to chase it anymore. Therefore, they can only hunt other prey.
But now is the dry season. In the days without wildebeest and zebra, there will be much less prey on the savannah. Because wildebeest is the most numerous animal in the entire Serengeti savanna, with the entire population numbering around 1.5 million.
Wildebeest ranks first in number on the savannah. In second place are zebras, with a population of about 700,000 to 800,000.
The combined number of these two animals is about 2.2 million. If such a large number were concentrated in one place, it would look spectacular.
Therefore, during the rainy season, if you go to Serengeti, you will definitely see animals everywhere on the savannah. Only then will you truly feel what an animal paradise is.
But during the dry season, after the wildebeest and zebra, the largest animals on the savanna, left, the number of animals on the savannah suddenly decreased a lot.
If you travel to the prairie during the dry season, you won't see many animals. You will feel that the prairie is very desolate, since there are no large groups of animals and no green grass and shade. The entire prairie is a barren land.
But when it comes to the rainy season, it's completely different. The charm of the prairie will be fully displayed in front of tourists during the rainy season.
However, the prairie has not yet gone through the long dry season, and it will take more than a month to go through this difficult dry season.
The closer this time comes, the more difficult the lives of the lions will become. Not only is the life of lions very difficult, but also of hyenas and other carnivores. In order to survive, they have almost reached the point of killing each other.
Carnivores are definitely not what we think, they only hunt herbivores. During the dry season, carnivores are a little hungry.
Animals will do anything to survive. Not only will they kill each other, they will even eat their own young.
Just like lions, some lionesses will eat their newborn cubs themselves in order to survive during the worst of the drought.
We often say that 'tiger poison cannot eat its seeds'. But I think that’s just because we don’t really understand the lives of animals yet. It may be said that 'tiger poison cannot eat its seeds'. It just means that this is the case in general.
Tigers, whether they are lions or not, will not eat their own cubs under normal circumstances. But in some extreme cases, it may be different.
Although this behavior of animals seems very cruel. But the animals are just fighting to survive. This is their instinct and we cannot blame them.
Although the dry season has reached its most difficult time, Nika and the others have never thought of eating their own cubs. Because they have a capable male lion, they don't have to worry about being hungry all day long.
If the lionesses cannot hunt prey by themselves, Chu Ye will hunt for them. As long as Chu Ye is willing to help, he will definitely be able to hunt prey.
Because even in the dry season, it does not mean that there are no animals on the prairie. It's just that there are fewer animals and it's more difficult to hunt.
But no matter what, as long as you hunt hard, you can always catch some prey.
Yesterday, Nika and the others went to the east of their territory in order to find some prey to hunt.
They were hunting a warthog, but the warthog managed to escape.
So Nika and the others set their sights on a group of buffaloes. At first, Nika wondered if it was the herd of cattle in Dis. But after taking a closer look, it discovered that it was not the group of buffaloes in Dis.
Maybe after Chu Ye taught Dis a lesson last time, it felt that the lion king of this pride was too powerful and that living in the territory of this pride was too dangerous. So, Dis led the herd and went to live in the territory of other lions.
The group of buffalo in front of me is another group of buffalo that migrated here from the territory of other lions.
Nika observed the group of buffaloes and felt that there were several relatively small buffaloes. They were obviously half-sized buffaloes. Their size was not much larger than a female lion.
After observing, Nika decided to hunt a half-grown buffalo. Because as long as the six female lions hunt one and a half large buffalo together, they will definitely be successful.
In fact, it was exactly what Nika thought. They quickly surrounded a half-sized buffalo. It took almost no effort and no danger to capture this half-sized buffalo.
Seeing that they succeeded in hunting so easily, Nika and Feifei were also very happy. They felt that they did not hunt in vain today. They finally caught a prey that could feed all the lions.
But just when Nika and Feifei were happy about their successful hunting, suddenly, there was a roar of a lioness.
Soon, a group of lionesses ran up to them.
There are eight female lions in this group. All of them are very strong. Compared to Nika and the other six female lions, they all seem to be taller and stronger.
Faced with this sudden change, Nika and the others were all stunned. After all, this is a result they did not expect and a situation they have never encountered before.
Lionesses generally live in their own territory and rarely interact with other lionesses.
It's just something strange today. Nika and the others actually encountered a group of female lions, two more than their group. Not only are they more numerous, they are also taller and stronger. They are a group of female lions with extraordinary strength.
Upon seeing this situation, Nika and Feifei were at a loss.
The intention of these lionesses is very obvious. They want to snatch Nika's food.
But how could Nika and the others be willing to give up the food they had hunted so hard to these robber lionesses?
Nika was also very puzzled. Under normal circumstances, the ones who come to snatch the prey of lionesses are hyenas, guys who like to snatch other people's prey. Lionesses usually hunt on their own. If it is not very hungry, it will not snatch other people's prey.
But what was strange today was that after Nikka and the others successfully hunted, they encountered another group of female lions, and they were targeting their prey.
How can I give the prey that I have worked so hard to hunt to others?
Although Nika and Feifei felt that they could not defeat this group of female lions, they would never give in.
