Chapter 422: Bread Fruit
After spending five days in Lagos, Olsen tasted all the seafood here, they stood up and headed for Bauchi, northern Nigeria.
In the next two days, they will spend the Wildlife Sanctuary in Bauchi.
Drive two jeeps, they began to drive straight into the entrance of the reserve.
Africa has a flat terrain and is the continent with the most plains in the world. The grasslands here are paradise for wildlife.
Zebra, wildebeest, antelope, giraffe, African elephant...
These wild animals that can only be seen on TV appear before them as the cars go deeper.
Not far away, a few trees that were standing on the ground like umbrellas, and a few baboons were standing on the trees and looking at them.
"That's an acacia tree, with thorns on it. Except for baboons, ordinary animals cannot go up. This tree is also an evergreen tree in the prairie.
The ancestors said that at the beginning, giraffes’ necks were not that long, but in order to survive, they could only work hard to grow their necks and then eat the leaves of the acacia tree.”
The tour guide explained to them while driving.
This legend is very interesting and also makes Tang Tian and Olsen laugh.
"What is that?"
The car drove forward for a while, and a few bucket-like trees appeared in front of them, and it seemed that at least a dozen people would hug them.
The leaves on the top of the tree are sparse and grow very strangely.
"That is the gift God has given us, the totem of Africa, the greatest wealth of our ancestors, the Baobab."
When the tour guide talked about the tree, a strong sense of piety appeared on his originally lazy face.
If he hadn't been driving, he might have really kneeled down like a god.
From the guide's mouth, Tang Tian and Olsen heard the function of this tree.
After listening to it, they could understand why the tour guide was so pious.
Africa is a paradise for wildlife, but it is also the most water-deficient continent. Take Nigeria as an example, the water here costs 50 yuan per ton.
And the trunks of this kind of tree, which look big, are basically filled with water.
When water is particularly short of water, Africans will make several holes in the tree and then directly get water to drink.
And it is not just the water in the tree. On the few trunks on the top of the tree, something called baobabobacillus will be formed.
According to the tour guide, the fruit tastes very much like bread when roasted, and it tastes very delicious if it is fried.
At first, Olson was just interested, but when he heard it was delicious, he directly directed the tour guide to drive the car over there.
There was a group of baboons above the tree, screaming when they saw them approaching.
The reason why this tree is called Baobab is because the fruits of this tree are the favorites of monkeys and baboons.
The tour guide was very professional. After going down, he greeted the bodyguards in the back car and shouted very threateningly at the baboons on the tree.
After the baboons lost in momentum, they all ran down from the baobab tree and fled in a hurry.
Tang Tian and Olsen were both stunned by the sight behind.
Sure enough, the solutions to the problem here are the most primitive.
After driving away the baboon, the tour guide took out the climbing tools directly from the trunk.
It can be seen that he should have done a lot of such things in his daily life.
The texture of the tree is very loose, but fortunately it is not very high. The tour guide climbed up skillfully and then directly knocked down the fruits.
The fruit is yellow and looks a bit like an immature coconut.
They fought for more than a dozen times, put them in the trunk of the car, and then continued to drive forward.
When they arrived at the temporary camp where they were resting, they all got off the bus one after another.
The tour guide and bodyguards went to bake monkey bread fruit, and Tang Tian and Olsen were holding telescopes to see the scenery on the grassland in the distance.
Because it is summer and the weather is hot, it is almost noon.
Those animals that were originally walking on the grassland were hiding under the shade of trees as much as possible to avoid the evaporation of water in their bodies.
Just under the shade of these trees, they saw the African lion, the king of the grassland that they had never seen before.
The African lion is the largest lion, second only to the Siberian tiger among the cats, and is the real king of the grassland.
The manes on the male lion's head looked domineering.
Where they are, other animals stand far away, fearing that they will become their mouths.
Fortunately, lions are solitary animals, otherwise the biological population of this grassland would have been greatly reduced.
Olson took out the telephoto camera to take pictures, while Tang Tian turned the telescope to another place.
In a relatively low-lying place, a group of African wild buffaloes gathered.
There should be a pond there.
The wild buffalo has large size and horns. Even the peak lionesses dare not attack them at will.
When they stop, they directly occupy the entire water source.
Other animals can only wait on the periphery and wait until they finish drinking before entering.
This is the magical place of African grasslands, where both predators and prey are in a relatively balanced state.
But just as he was watching, a lame-injured female lion suddenly entered Tang Tian's sight.
Its belly is shrunk and it seems that it hasn't eaten for a while.
Tang Tian has watched some of Zhao Zhongxiang's programs before and still has some understanding of the survival of African lions.
The most impressive thing is the African lion and the "flat-headed brother" honey badger. The honey badger is not afraid of the earth or the African lion.
But in fact, the fundamental reason why African lions don’t fight with honey badgers is that their reward ratio is very low and the risk is very high.
If you win, you will only have a small piece of meat, but once you are injured, you may face death.
Here, the laws of nature are cruel.
Just like the female lioness that Tang Tian saw, she was unable to complete hunting due to injury and starving, and her combat effectiveness decreased one step further, and death was only a matter of time.
“What are you looking at?”
Olson's voice came at this time.
"That lion is so pitiful. Does it want to drink water?"
Olson should have picked up the telescope and looked over there.
“Not necessarily, it looks hungry.”
Tang Tian said.
He spoke with a hint of surprise when he said this, because the lioness had already taken the position of attacking.
But an injured lioness attacking such a wild buffalo herd is almost like committing suicide.
"ah!"
Amid Olson's screams, the lioness rushed towards the buffalo herd, targeting a small buffalo.
However, before it could reach the rush, all the adult buffaloes stood together to protect the little buffaloes, and the buffaloes on the outside even used their horns to hit the female lioness.
The lioness's reaction seemed a little slow, and her belly was almost exposed directly. Although she could dodge it, she was still injured, and blood was flowing down from it.
It limped away from the buffalo herd, stood unwillingly in the distance for a while before leaving with its head lowered.
It should be not far from death.
Olson felt a little distressed.
But Tang Tian didn't react much.
If the lioness really bites the little buffalo to death, it will be time to feel sorry for the buffalo again.
Chapter completed!