Alpine pasture

Chapter 287 Weird "Lovers"

Just put down the knife and fork in his hand, Juan picked up the napkin, wiped his mouth and said to Miles: "After eating soon, let's go to see the lions. I haven't seen the lions in reality yet."

Miles calmly ate the pork chops on the plate and said, "Don't worry! It's very hot at noon now, and the lions are all sleeping. When you go there, you will see a group of big and small lions lying under the tree and sleeping soundly." That’s all, wait until after four o’clock when the lions are about to come out for activities, and then go see it, it’s still early.”

"Then why haven't the Georges come back and are still observing the lions?" Ju An asked.

Miles glanced at Ju'an and said, "They are zoologists. They wish they could live with lions. We can't compare with them. It won't be too late to go when it's cooler outside."

Ju An thought about the scorching sun outside and nodded: "That's right, let's wait for it to cool down before going out, then you eat slowly, I will go back to the house to sleep for a while, and call me when I leave."After speaking, he pushed away the chair and stood up, put the napkin on the table and turned back to his room.

After entering the room, he took out an apple from the space and lay down on the bed to chew. After eating the apple, he threw the core of the apple and covered his stomach with a corner of the blanket. After a while, he fell asleep, until he was shocked The knock on the door woke Ju An up, and then she got up to open the door.

"It's almost time, let's go." Miles also fell asleep and stood at the door full of energy and said to Ju An.

"Come in first, wait for me to wipe your face" and let Miles come in, Ju An turned around and went into the bathroom to freshen up a bit, then left the room with Miles, as soon as he stepped out of the room, his face was full of heat waves , but it was much better than at noon. Kakeka had already started the car and was waiting outside. The two got into the car, and Kakeka started the car.

After driving for more than 30 minutes, Kakeka turned to Ju An and Miles and said, "Not far ahead is the territory of a pride of lions. We just had three new cubs last month. You'll see the cute little guy soon."

When they got near the group of lions, Juan and Miles saw four big lions lying under a tree, beside them were five half-sized cubs and three little big ones that were a little wobbly when they walked. Keka drove the car very close, and stopped the car only four or five meters away from the place where the lions slept.

The current car has no protection at all. It is just an ordinary four-wheel drive off-road vehicle. Ju An doesn't care about the safety of himself and Miles. Will suddenly attack you, the car is driving so close."

"It doesn't matter, we have a very good relationship with the lions in the past few years. Sometimes when the lioness goes hunting, if we are nearby, she will let us take care of the cubs. We have gained the trust of the lions" Ka Keka Smiling and explaining to Juan.

Looking at a few lazy female lions under the tree with round bellies, squinting their eyes and lying comfortably, shaking their tails from time to time, a half-grown lion is following a cub, and from time to time uses The paws fiddled with the little lion, and the little lion staggered, barked at the half-big lion behind him and continued walking.

Looking at the ball-like little lion, Ju An said with a smile: "This bigger lion is not very good, he just bullies his younger brothers and sisters."

"The hierarchical order of lions is very strict. Young lions have to endure the roughness of half-big lions, and even push away cubs when eating food, let alone cubs, waiting for their sons to be strong enough to push away their mothers Auntie," Kacoka said.

Ju An looked around and found no sign of the big male lion, so he asked, "Where did the big male lion go? Why isn't it near the lions?".

Kakeka picked up the binoculars and observed: "It should be to inspect the territory. Now almost all the lionesses have babies, so the big male lions will not return to the lions for a few weeks or even a month to inspect the territory outside. , it's normal not to see them."

Seeing the lions lying lazily, looking at Ju'an for a long time, he said: "Today's luck is really bad! I saw that the leopards were full, and so did the lions. None of them got up to concentrate on hunting."

Miles said with a smile: "Then let's go to the next lion group to see. This group of lions probably will hunt in two or three days. Seeing what these guys eat, their stomachs are almost bursting."

As soon as Miles finished speaking, a lioness tried to stand up. She didn't know whether it was too full or something before she wobbled a few times. Ju An watched and shook her head: "If this comes suddenly The group of hyenas are all finished, and there is no vigilance at all after eating like this."

Kacoka said with a smile: "The hyenas don't have the courage to come to the center of the lion's territory. Even if something dares to come in, it is a stray lion who came to seize the territory. But now the two leaders of this group of lions are in their prime. The wandering male lions with open eyes have to weigh it carefully, it seems that they drink water as soon as they go to the pond, and several lionesses have stood up."

Ju An saw that all the lionesses stood up. As soon as the lionesses stood up, the cubs ran back and forth happily, especially the half-sized lions, happily rubbing against each other. , the two half-grown ones started fighting with each other, and the four adult lionesses didn't care about their cubs at all, they lowered their heads and squinted their eyes and walked forward, looking like people who were too sleepy to keep their eyes open.

"That's really true. Seeing these lionesses almost fell to the ground in sleepiness," Ju An said, shaking his head.

Kakeka started the car and slowly followed the lions. After walking not far, he reached the edge of the pond. The drinking animals at the edge of the pond quickly ran away when they saw the lions, but they did not escape too far. , it seemed that the bulging belly of the lions made them feel at ease. They stood in the distance and stared at the lions closely. The lions slowly swayed to the edge of the pond and began to drink water. To be honest, a fight started at the edge of the pond, but the three lion cubs followed their mothers and aunts to drink water obediently.

All the herbivores on the edge of the entire pond are watching the lions, without turning their heads, watching the lions drinking water. The scene is like domestic leaders entering the arena, standing and applauding all around, but the lions will not Just smile and wave at these herbivores.

"This group of lions hasn't seen much for a few days. Let's go to the next group to see if they are preparing to eat," Myers said.

After hearing this, Kacoka started the car and led Ju An and Miles towards another pride of lions. Before they left the territory of the pride of lions, they met two big male lions, two adult male lions Much bigger than the biggest lioness I saw just now, her neck was covered with thick black mane, she was urinating in the grass on the ground while roaring, oh, oh, her rough and wild roar directly hit Ju An eardrum.

Ka Keka pointed to the two big male lions and said to Ju An and Miles: "The one who is peeing is called Carlson, and the other one is called Karls. They are two brothers."

Ju An saw that the two male lions were basically the same: "How can you tell the difference between these male lions?"In the spirit of not being ashamed to ask, Ju An asked Ka Keka.

Ka Keka smiled and said to Ju An: "If there is no obvious difference in appearance, you can look at their beards. The beard patterns around the mouth are different for each lion, but these two are very easy to distinguish. The one with the bushy black mane is Carlson, the eldest of the two brothers, and the one with the less mane on the stomach is the younger brother Kars."

Listening to Ka Keka making gestures for a while, Juan still didn't see the difference, Myers said: "Don't tell the difference, I have been here many times and I haven't learned to distinguish lions, let's just have a look, just go down A pride of lions".

After Kakeka heard this, he smiled and continued to drive the car. Ju An turned his head and watched the two big male lions slowly disappear behind him. The thick roar still filled Ju An's eardrums.

After driving for a while, the three of Juan ran into the second brother of Africa at the edge of the bush. The spotted hyena was following a leopard leisurely, and the leopard was walking in front. The little follower hangs behind him like this.

Ju An looked at the pair of leopard and spotted hyena with binoculars and turned to Ka Keka and said, "Why doesn't this leopard turn around and give this spotted hyena a bite? It's annoying to keep following behind, like a follower. You said that the spotted hyena is the same. Why don’t you hunt by yourself with such sharp teeth, and live by robbing other people’s food.”

After hearing this, Miles explained: "I know this. Spotted hyenas also have long legs. Leopards chase hyenas at most by running away. As long as spotted hyenas don't get caught up by leopards, under normal circumstances neither of them can do anything to each other." , and it is very dangerous for leopards to kill spotted hyenas. Otherwise, they will be seriously injured. These animals generally put safety first and fight a lot, but the scenes of life and death struggles are still rarely seen. last life".

Looking at the leopard in front of the binoculars and the spotted hyena hanging tightly behind it is like watching two lovers in a TV series in the 90s. At that time, when the country just opened up, everyone was still very conservative. Generally, when lovers go shopping, men walk by. In front, the woman shyly followed behind.Thinking of this, he looked at a leopard and a spotted hyena, and Ju An burst out laughing.

Miles saw Ju'an laughing and asked, "Can you see a leopard and a spotted hyena laughing?".

Ju An tried to explain what he thought of to Miles. After hearing it, Miles couldn't think of the joke, and shook his head: "At that time, your Chinese lovers were really strange. Could it be that there is something wrong with hugging and shopping together?" Question mom?".

Ju An was stunned for a moment after hearing Miles' words, hey!Why did you tell him this? If Wang Fan was beside him at this time, he would probably be leaning forward and backward with joy, the difference, the difference.I had to say to Miles: "You don't understand, well, let's continue to look at the two or go forward to see the lion group. When do you think the leopards will be able to hunt?".

Kakeka shook his head and said, "It's hard to say, maybe ten minutes or a day or two, and then the situation in the morning will be staged again. The leopard and the spotted hyena tug-of-war until the final winner." .

When Ju An heard that even the hunt was just a replay in the morning, he said decisively: "Then let's go to the next lion pride."

(End of this chapter)