Chapter 143: Baboon stealing food

This huge crocodile is the same huge Nile crocodile that attacked Chu Ye before. This crocodile failed to capture Chu Ye just now, and now it wants to capture an impala to satisfy its hunger.

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So many impalas come to the river to drink water. This is a good opportunity for the crocodiles hiding underwater.

But for crocodiles, there are many prey in front of them at once, but it is not as easy to hunt successfully as having a single prey.

Because if there are too many prey in front of you, the hunter will not know which prey to hunt.

The reason why impalas crowd together to the river to get water is because they can protect themselves and paralyze their enemies.

On the surface, it seems that this strategy of the Impala is completely useless, or even a wrong behavior. But in fact, this approach of the Impala is very reasonable.

Although the crocodile is very powerful, if there are a lot of prey drinking water by the river, its hunting success rate will be relatively low.

And if there is a single prey drinking water by the river, the crocodile's hunting success rate will be higher.

On the African savannah, many animals live in groups. Herbivores, in particular, do not live alone.

The reason why herbivores live in groups is so that they can look after each other when fending off natural enemies.

The same goes for impalas. They usually live in groups of dozens. Whether they are eating grass or going to the river to drink water, they will go together. Especially for drinking water, they will not be alone.

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The reason why impalas crowd together to the river to drink water is because they need to use this method to paralyze their natural enemies, so that the crocodiles don't know which impala should be hunted.

Chu Ye was lying under a big tree not far away. From this angle, he could clearly see the situation by the river.

Seeing so many impalas going to the river to drink water, Chu Ye felt that they would soon be attacked by crocodiles.

Sure enough, when these impalas were rushing to the river to drink water, suddenly, a huge crocodile jumped out of the river.

This crocodile may be the same crocodile that attacked Chu Ye just now, and it is now attacking the impala again.

Chu Ye also felt that now, there must be an impala that will be attacked by a crocodile. The crocodile is also likely to successfully hunt. After all, with so many impalas together, it is not easy for the crocodile to successfully hunt.

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But what Chu Ye didn't expect was that the crocodile did not succeed in hunting this time. When it was about to attack an adult impala, the adult impala suddenly jumped up. Although the crocodile was very fast, it

This adult impala reacted faster.

When this crocodile sprang out of the river, the entire impala herd was like a frying pan and suddenly began to flee in all directions.

Although there were dozens of impalas drinking water together by the river, this crocodile did not hunt any impala.

This can be regarded as a strange phenomenon. After all, with so many targets, hunting should be easier. But when the crocodile faced dozens of impalas at once, it seemed that it didn’t know how to target certain animals.

An impala was set as his target.

Chu Ye was lying in the shade of a tree. He looked at this crocodile and failed to hunt again. He himself felt sorry for this crocodile.

'Hey, this stupid crocodile failed to hunt again! You said you can't hunt a powerful prey like me, but you can't hunt a weak impala!'

Chu Ye saw that this big crocodile failed to hunt again. He felt pity for this crocodile, and also felt that this crocodile was too stupid. There were so many impalas, and it could not catch even one.

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When the crocodiles appeared again, the group of impalas were scared away by the crocodiles, and they did not dare to return to the river to drink water.

If this group of impalas has already drank some water, they naturally don't need to risk drinking water anymore.

The impala no longer needs to drink water, but other animals still need to drink water.

At this moment, Chu Ye saw two cheetahs walking towards the river. They wanted to drink water.

And the crocodile that failed to hunt hid in the river again.

These two cheetahs are a pair of cheetah brothers. They are only sub-adult cheetahs and may not have enough experience in living outside.

The two cheetahs were very thirsty. When they arrived at the river, they began to lie down by the river and drink water.

Of course, these two cheetahs also knew that there might be danger in the river. They drank for a while and then raised their heads to look at the river in the distance.

When they felt that there was no movement in the river in the distance, they lay down by the river and continued to drink water.

But at this moment, the water suddenly splashed, and a huge crocodile jumped out of the river. This crocodile bit a cheetah in the neck.

This action was the same as when the crocodile bit Chu Ye just now. The crocodile bit the cheetah in the neck again.

After this cheetah was attacked by a crocodile, it struggled hard to get out of the crocodile's control. But the strength of this cheetah could not be compared with Chu Ye. Chu Ye's strength was even greater than this crocodile. So

Said that Chu Ye could in turn drag the crocodile to the shore.

But this cheetah is not so lucky. It is not as strong as the crocodile. Not to mention that this cheetah is just a sub-adult cheetah. Even an adult cheetah is not as strong as an adult cheetah.

The huge crocodile is very strong.

Therefore, this cheetah was rather unlucky. After being bitten on the neck by the crocodile, it only struggled a few times on the shore before being dragged into the water by the crocodile.

There were only some splashes on the water, and then it became calm again. Everything was as if nothing happened.

The cheetah standing on the shore watched as his brother was dragged into the water by the crocodile. He could only watch helplessly what was happening in front of him, and he had no choice at all.

This cheetah just stared at the calm water for a while, then turned and left. Although it was not full of water, it no longer wanted to drink any more water. After all, the river was too dangerous.

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Chu Ye looked at everything in front of him and felt a little cruel. But he knew that this was the law of survival of nature. On this prairie, it was a world where the weak and the strong survived.

Chu Ye rested under this big tree that day. For Chu Ye, as long as he was on land, he felt that he did not need to worry about anything. Because there would not be any animals that could threaten him on land.

his safety.

After eating a lot of buffalo meat during the day, Chu Ye didn't feel hungry that day.

Chu Ye has been lying under that big tree to rest. At night, he also slept under this big tree.

It wasn't until the next morning that Chu Ye woke up again.

After Chu Ye woke up, he felt a little hungry. After all, after a day of digesting the food he ate, his stomach became empty again.

‘Didn’t I have half a buffalo left yesterday? I have to go over and eat the rest of the food, otherwise the food will go bad.’

Chu Ye knew that the climate here was tropical and the weather was very hot. It was impossible for any meat to be stored in this place for several days.

So, Chu Ye came to the big tree where he hid the food yesterday, and he wanted to eat yesterday's food.

But when he climbed up the big tree and wanted to eat the leftover food from yesterday, he found that the food was gone.

'Hey! What kind of animal stole my food.'

Chu Ye felt a little strange. After all, he placed the food on a big tree more than 20 meters high. Under normal circumstances, no animals would climb to such a high place to steal other people's food.

But at this moment, Chu Ye heard the cry of a baboon coming from a big tree not far away.

These baboons seemed to be fighting for some food.

'Hey, what are these baboons doing! Why are they making such a loud noise?'

Chu Ye was a little curious, so he got down from the big tree and walked towards the big tree not far away.

When he walked under a big tree not far away, he saw a group of baboons fighting for some food on the big tree.

Chu Ye took a closer look and saw that it was the leftover buffalo meat he had eaten yesterday.

'Good guys, you gang of thieves dare to steal my prey from Chu Ye. You are really impatient.'

Chu Ye also knows a lot about baboons.

Baboon, a genus of primates, apes, suborder Stenorrhinus, Monidae, commonly known as baboon.

It is large in size, second only to the orangutan among primates, with a body length of 50.8 to 114.2 cm, a tail length of 38.2 to 71.1 cm, and a weight of up to 60 kilograms.

The head is thick and long, the snout is protruding, the ears are small, the eyebrow arch is prominent, the eyes are sunken, the canine teeth are long and pointed, up to 5 cm; it has cheek pouches; the body is stout, and the four limbs are equal in length, short and thick, and are adapted to ground activities

; There are brightly colored calluses on the buttocks.

The fur is yellow, yellowish brown, greenish brown to brown, generally the tail is darker; the fur is rough, with short hairs on the face and ears. Males have long hairs around the face, neck, and shoulders, while females have shorter hairs.

It inhabits tropical rain forests, savannas, semi-desert grasslands, plateau mountains, low mountains, plains or canyon cliffs. It mainly lives on the ground, but also climbs into trees to sleep or forage.

It is good at swimming and can make loud calls. It is active during the day and roosts in large branches or caves at night. Its food includes various small animals and plants.

They live in groups, with a dozen to more than a hundred in each group. The main natural enemy is leopards. There is no fixed breeding season, and each litter gives birth to one cub. The life span in the wild is about 20 years. It is mainly distributed in Africa, and some species are also found in the Arabian Peninsula.

Baboons are the only higher-level monkeys among monkeys that live in large groups in camps. Baboons also live in the most rigorous social communities among monkeys, with obvious hierarchical order and strict discipline, and the cruelty of punishment is frightening.

In the wild, a group of baboons will fight, divide into groups, or change kings after a cycle of several years. This is because replacing the old with the new and the strong with the weak is the law of the baboon kingdom. Baboons generally mature at about six years old.

Its aggressiveness naturally also has a reproductive factor in competing for mates.

Of course, the baboon group does not always fight. Generally, after the new king is born, it will be stable for a long time, and the number of reproduction will increase, and the group will grow rapidly.

At this time, the king baboon will also take the initiative to show friendship to the lower-status male and female baboons and groom them. This will further strengthen its status. The group of baboons also compete to flatter the king.

The king only grooms the subordinate baboons symbolically, while the lower-status baboons do their best. Therefore, the king's hair is always smooth and smooth, which can be seen at a glance.

Mainly active on the ground, it also climbs up trees to sleep or forage. It is good at swimming and can make loud calls. It is active during the day and roosts in large branches or caves at night. Its food includes various small animals and plants.

Social animals, each group size is usually 30 to 60 animals, and there are also large groups of 200 to 300 animals. There are more females, but the male status is higher. Male East African baboons fight to determine each other's rank, and only high-ranking males
To be continued...