Chapter 342: Storing Food
When the skin on the white rhino's belly is torn open, the internal organs inside are exposed. Chu Ye and Maomao quickly started grabbing food.
For carnivores, their favorite food is animal offal. As long as they hunt prey, when eating meat, they must eat the internal organs of the prey first, and then eat other parts of the prey.
Generally speaking, when the lion king is eating, other female lions are not allowed to eat. However, Chu Ye is not an ordinary lion king. He not only hunts by himself, but also shares their prey with the lionesses.
However, Chu Ye and Maomao were the heroes in hunting this big rhinoceros. Of course, they had to choose the best parts of the white rhino to eat.
Other female lions also know these rules, although they also want to eat the internal organs of animals. However, when they saw that Chu Ye and Maomao had occupied the white rhino's belly, they consciously bit the meat on the white rhino's thigh.
Even the little lions didn't dare to disturb Chu Ye and Maomao when they were eating. They just followed the lionesses and shared other parts of the white rhinoceros meat with them.
However, the little lion whose life was saved by Nika just now unexpectedly came to Chu Ye and Maomao mischievously, and it boldly came to snatch the lion king and Maomao's food.
Maomao saw this little lion who didn't understand the rules and came to snatch his food, so he roared at the little lion.
The little lion was very frightened when he saw Maomao's angry look, and hurriedly hid next to Chu Ye.
'Maomao, what are you doing! Is it a little lion? 'Chu Ye doesn't care, he won't argue with a little lion.
'What's wrong with the little lion? The little lion also needs to know the rules. Look at why the other little lions don’t come to cause trouble for us. Maomao said looking at the other little lions.
'Okay, this little lion might be a little naughty! If you think it's causing trouble for you, then let it eat these offal with me! '
After Chu Ye finished speaking, he bit off a small piece of internal organs and left it with the little lion and his side.
This little lion saw the animal's internal organs. He sniffed them twice and then started to devour them.
This white rhinoceros is very huge, weighing two to three tons. Even if there were dozens of lions in Chu Ye's pride, they would not be able to eat two to three tons of meat in one meal.
They only ate a small amount and were full.
Maomao saw that there was still a big fat pile of food, and said with some pity, "Boss, there is so much food left. Isn't it a waste if it is still here like this?" '
Chu Ye looked at the uneaten meat on the ground and felt that if he left this place like this, the meat would soon become food for vultures and hyenas.
'No, it's the dry season. We can be full today, but we may be hungry tomorrow. In this way, each of us adult lions bit off a piece of rhinoceros meat and then carried it back to the camp. 'Chu Ye made a decision that felt very wise to him.
'What the boss said, we need to learn to hoard food. You can’t just eat one meal and not think about the next one. Maomao said the same thing after hearing what he said in his dream.
'Well, let's get started! After Chu Ye finished speaking, he went over first and bit off a large piece of meat from the white rhinoceros.
When Nika and Mira saw Chu Ye's behavior, they also imitated Chu Ye's behavior and bit off a large piece of meat from the white rhinoceros.
The same goes for Mao Mao, who also bit off a chunk of meat from the white rhinoceros.
The little lions just looked at the behavior of the adult lions curiously, not understanding the meaning of what they did.
In this way, Chu Ye and Maomao bit into two large pieces of meat respectively, and returned to the camp together with the other lionesses.
As soon as Chu Ye and Maomao left with the lions, a group of vultures flew to the white rhinoceros carcass, wanting to eat some food.
But the vultures had just eaten some food when they saw the bushes nearby shaking a few times, and a group of hyenas sprang out. They screamed and rushed towards the group of vultures.
Of course, the target of the hyenas was not the vultures, but the carcasses of white rhinos. They had been hungry for many days, and now they were very happy to see such a big prey.
In fact, the hyenas had been waiting nearby for a while, just because they didn't dare to act rashly when they saw Chu Ye, Maomao and the dozens of female lions.
It was only after Chu Ye and Maomao left with a large piece of meat in their mouths that the hyenas dared to eat the food.
Of course, the hyenas need to drive away the vultures before they can listen to the food. So the hyenas went over and drove the vultures away.
In this way, after the hyenas drove the vultures away, they could eat the leftover food eaten by Chuye, Maomao and the lionesses.
Of course, Chu Ye and Maomao also knew that after they left, there would be some predators who would eat their leftover food. However, Chu Ye and Maomao had taken away most of the meat, leaving only some bones and a little meat.
But even these leftovers are still delicacies to the hungry hyenas.
Of course, for vultures, these leftovers are even more delicacies. Animals like vultures are originally the cleaners of the savannah, and they will only eat some food scraps left by predators.
Besides, after Chu Ye and Maomao led the lionesses back to the camp with food in their mouths, Chu Ye decided to hide the food in a cave.
This is an abandoned warthog cave with a lot of space inside. Previously, Chu Ye had let the lion cubs of their pride hide inside.
But now these little lions are half a year old and can almost move around with the lionesses, so the warthog hole is useless. Now this warthog hole is just enough for Chu Ye and the others to store food.
So, Chu Ye and Maomao led the lionesses and hid the leftover food into the warthog hole.
Taken together, these foods weigh hundreds of kilograms. It allows the entire pride of lions to have a hearty meal when they are hungry.
It makes sense for Chu Ye to do this. Because there are fewer and fewer herbivores in their territory these days. If they don't store some food quickly, they may not be able to hunt prey or find food in the next few days.
The weather has been getting hotter and hotter these days. It does not seem like the dry season is about to end. On the contrary, the dry season is still continuing and getting drier.
