Rhinos are social animals. If a rhinoceros is left alone, it will be in danger and may be attacked by predators such as lions, leopards, tigers, and hyenas, and it will be doomed.
Therefore, rhinos know how to protect themselves and their children.
A baby rhinoceros grows from birth to three or four years old, which is considered a grown up. It has never left its mother and the herd of rhinos grazing in the grasslands and mountain forests, so it lives a relatively comfortable and safe life.
It is a female. When she is three or four years old, she is like a young girl in bloom, plump and charming. This way it doesn't need its mother's protection.
Protecting it and vying to be with it are the winners among the males. They are also jealous, and this jealousy comes from two aspects. One is the competition between males for the right to mate with it, and the other is the competition between females and females. They compete with each other for favors from males.
Of course, the older female was left out, which aroused the hatred of some out-of-favor females, including its mother. When she found it approaching her, she stamped her feet, buried her head, and nudged it with her horns.
It can also compete with an opponent that attacks it. Often, at this time, two or more female rhinos will join forces to deal with it, and it has no choice but to seek shelter among the doting male rhinos. So those female rhinos have to avoid it.
For now, let’s call this pampered rhino Ai-ai. Ai-ai is very popular among male rhinos, and the male rhinoceros who protects it is not in vain. It will always be the first to satisfy the requirements of the stronger male rhinoceros. The stronger one. Only after this is done will other less powerful people be allowed to play with Ai Ai.
The weak among the male rhinoceroses often rarely have sex with each other, because sometimes, when they get tired of sex, they shake their heads to express rejection. In the end, the weak one has to give up love, lower the threshold of desire, and take the initiative to have sex with other older female rhinos in order to gain benefits.
Gradually Ai Ai became pregnant, but she didn't know who was the father of the child in her belly. But at this time, in order to preserve the offspring and preserve the fetus, it is not advisable to do too much. It usually only deals with the strongest male rhinoceros, and the other less strong and weak ones have no share. They do not understand this law or rule. Pronounced to comply.
Of course, if Ai'ai also gives birth to a girl, the girl will grow up and become the wife of all the male rhinoceroses. At this time, Ai'ai will be replaced by his daughter, and his fate will be It would be the same fate as the mother who gave birth to it. Unless it gave birth to a boy, its favored status would not collapse. This is a well-known rule in rhino society.
A Qingshui River appears in the lower section of the African jungle. Generally, wild animals living in the jungle go to the Qingshui River to drink water once a day, unless it rains. On rainy days, many herbivores can absorb water from the grass blades with water droplets, so You don’t get thirsty and you don’t have to go out of the jungle.
For rhinos, as long as it is a sunny day, they will come out of the jungle without exception, and they will go out in groups, never alone, otherwise, they are likely to be attacked and killed by predators such as lions.
One summer, there was a drought, the temperature reached around 40°C, and the African jungle was very hot. The rhino herds have to go out of the forest to drink water from the Qingshui River below, but three-quarters of the Qingshui River has dried up, and there is still a small amount of stagnant water surrounded by the river bed exposed at the muddy bottom. The jungle is not only home to wild rhinos. The animals, as well as their natural enemies - lions and other carnivores - also drink from the same river with little water, which poses a great life threat to the rhinos.
But the strong ones among the rhinoceroses have figured out a way to deal with their natural enemies. They take collective action and at the same time emit a loud cry to build momentum. This can often scare away carnivorous beasts such as lions and help them withstand severe droughts. of water of life.
Due to such momentum many times, the rhinos were comfortable walking out of the jungle to drink water. Gradually they relaxed their vigilance and stopped shouting to create momentum. However, every time they jumped into the forest and ran to the front, it was the strong ones among the rhinos, or in other words, they were all The men among the rhinos and the women among the rhinoceros should be said to be weak, and most of them followed behind.
However, Ai Ai is pregnant with Liujia and struggles to run, so she naturally becomes the weakest among the weak. When it realized the danger, it ran forward desperately. In front of it are women who usually fall out of favor and are very jealous of it or even hate it.
At this moment, a big female rhino noticed that Ai'ai was running behind, so she turned around and charged at her with her sharp horns. Of course Ai'ai was the loser, so she had no choice but to turn around and run back a few steps. When she saw the provocateur running away It was far away from itself, so it ran forward a few steps, hoping to keep up with the team, otherwise it would be in danger.
It's true that whatever you expect will come out to cause trouble. When Ai Ai was anxious, a lion suddenly jumped out of the dense forest and intercepted its path. It retreated, turned around and found that there was also a lion behind it, forming a pincer attack on it.
It turns out that the lions changed their strategy in attacking the rhinos. They avoided the aggressiveness of the group's forwards and outflanked them from behind, specifically attacking the weak ones in the rhino group. At that moment, Ai'ai ran away to the right, but there was a steep cliff in front of her. There was no way to retreat. Two lions were chasing after her. Ai'ai struggled to leap up the cliff, but the cliff was too steep and she staggered. Fell down a hundred feet deep stream...
The cooked ducks flew away. The two lions looked at each other in confusion, as if complaining to each other. Why didn't they escape from the cliff where the good prey was? They walked out of the jungle with their heads hanging down in despair, looking at the rhinoceroses going down to the river to drink water, and waiting for an opportunity to launch a new attack on the weak ones among them.
Ai Ai fell off a high cliff and landed heavily on a standing rock in a deep stream. She rolled over and the front half of her body was immersed in the blue stream, causing splashes and whirlpools. Gradually, the blue stream dyed it blood red; and the back half The body is standing upside down, and the tail between the legs is also immersed in the stream.
Ai Ai's soul left the body and floated melancholy at the top of the deep stream. Suddenly, he saw the souls of two baby rhinoceroses also leaving its body. Knowing that they were the unborn baby rhinos it had conceived, it mooed long and hard. After hearing the sound, the two baby rhinos remained unmoved, still lingering around their mother's body like smoke.
I don’t know how long it took, but a vulture, perhaps smelling a smell, flew from a distance and landed on Ai’ai’s corpse. It used its hook-like sharp beak to peck at its decaying flesh, and first tore open its belly. Enjoy it piece by piece.
After a while, another vulture came, inserted its sharp beak into its belly, tore out Ai'ai's internal organs, and pulled out the body of a young rhinoceros that had not yet grown up. Swallowed by the ground.
Then, another vulture also took out the carcass of a baby rhino from Ai'ai's belly and ate it.
The souls of the two little rhinoceroses floating in the air swooped down to attack the two vultures, but the two vultures ignored them. They were helpless and were blown by a cool mountain wind, helpless.
