Four hundred and twentieth eight chapters on foot tracking
"Oh, I'm so sad. What I just said sincerely is in vain. No one can understand it. It makes me so sad!" The fat boss really squeezed his eyes hard, but not a single tear came out.
"The truth is not wasted. I have heard it and I understand it. But it doesn't matter who shoots, right Uncle Liu?" Hong Tao refused to give in and even tried to win over an alliance.
"I don't care who you love, and don't ask me. If you two don't want to fight, then I will fight. I see you are tired of bickering, and it doesn't matter whether you fight or not." Boss Liu held up the binoculars and concentrated.
Watching the male lion bite the wildebeest, I had no intention of getting involved in the fight between the two of them.
Why doesn't it work? It tastes good when it eats! This is all the performance of this male lion. You said it lies on the ground and sleeps all day long, doing nothing. It has a big appetite. After eating the wildebeest's sesame,
It started to nibble on the wildebeest's neck, and then its front legs. It kept tossing for more than 20 minutes before it was full. It raised its head and let out a big burp, then rolled to the side of the grass and continued to sleep.
As soon as the male lion left, three female lions immediately came up and began to continue to chew on the wildebeest carcass. The two lion cubs did not show weakness.
However, in Hong Tao's view, their playfulness is obviously more important than their desire for food.
"Do those lionesses still have hierarchies? The main wife eats first, and the younger wife eats last?" Hong Tao started asking Holland Urinary again.
"Well, the social structure of lions is very complicated. Apart from male lions, lionesses with children have the highest status, followed by older lionesses. Those young lionesses have to take the last turn, and sometimes there are not many prey.
After eating, they can only starve. For them, it is common to be hungry for several days in a row.
The thing is, their success rate in catching prey is very low, less than 30%. It also depends on teamwork. If it is driven out by the lions, it will probably starve to death." In the mouth of the Netherlands,
, the image of these grassland overlords is not tall at all, and they even live a bit miserable.
At this time, more than half of the body of the wildebeest is left. It seems that the lionesses will at least not starve today. As for eating them all, it may not be realistic. The people in the hunting team have already planned how to distribute food to the lionesses.
Losing interest, the convoy left the small forest and continued to drive forward, looking for another male lion or white rhinoceros that might appear.
The best time to hunt on the East African grasslands is early in the morning and late at night. When the time is past 9 o'clock and the sun has completely risen above the head, most animals will stop moving and hide in the woods or grass to escape the hot weather here. Even
The most annoying baboons that can be seen everywhere are lying on the tree trunks.
If the hunting guides had followed their previous habits, it would be time to return to the camp to rest at this time. Anyway, wandering around in the wild would not be able to find prey. On the contrary, they might suffer from heat stroke. But this time it is different. Now there are real people in the team.
Maasai warriors. These natural hunters can walk dozens or even hundreds of kilometers on the savannah without bringing any supplies.
This is not to brag for them. Hong Tao saw with his own eyes that the Maasai warriors ran to a termite mound to dig out ants to eat. Such termite mounds are everywhere on the grassland. You can see several at a glance. They are like a high bulge.
Small mounds of soil are usually more than half a meter high, while large termite nests can be more than 2 meters high, making the grassland look like a large cemetery.
These small insects are only about the size of a fingertip, but they are very nutritious. They taste like fish roe, crunchy, and taste pretty good. However, they have a characteristic. Once they are attacked by other species, they will secrete an acid.
The bitter and sour compound has a very unpleasant smell. Therefore, you cannot stay in a termite nest for too long. If you eat a little bit, you have to change places. Otherwise, the ants in the nest will immediately start to secrete that stuff after being alerted by the ants outside.
, it is very disgusting to accidentally eat it in your mouth.
If those Maasai warriors did not have cattle or sheep around them, they would rely on these termites and picking some wild fruits to satisfy their hunger. They would travel during the day and sleep on the grass with their clothes on at night. At most, they would bring a piece of cowhide as a bedding, from some kind of
In a sense, they are more tolerant and adaptable than most animals on the East African grasslands.
It is said that when they hunt male lions alone, they always follow the method of tracking, that is, they find a lone male lion, and then keep driving it away, and finally starve the male lion alive, and then go up to kill it.
However, this coming-of-age ceremony has been basically abolished now, because lions have also become protected animals. If they do not actively attack the Maasai people, the government does not allow them to kill them at will.
With these Maasai warriors who can walk on the grassland and cannot find prey, Hong Tao and the others will be very unlucky. Hong Tao thinks that his character is not bad, and the facts have proved his judgment.
Not long after leaving the pride of lions, the Maasai warrior seemed to have discovered something. He patted the roof of the car to signal the driver to stop. Then before the car had stopped, he jumped out and searched around in the grass like a hound for several minutes.
Then they started dancing like they did.
"It's done, our Maasai warrior has found a male lion of the right age, let's set off!" Holland got out of the car and exchanged a few words with the bouncing Maasai warrior, and then brought everyone a good one that couldn't be better.
news.
You can't drive around in off-road vehicles when stalking prey. We parked three off-road vehicles together, leaving two black staff to guard them. Then they formed a line and followed the Maasai warrior from a distance.
Tracking started in the grass that was as tall as half a man.
After leaving the chariot, everyone's physical fitness was clearly revealed within ten minutes. Not to mention the Masai warriors, they walked around and spent most of their time waiting for the team behind them.
No one could barely keep up with the Maasai warriors. Although the three hunting guides were in good physical strength and adapted to the long journey on the grassland, they could not leave their clients and could only follow Hong Tao and the others step by step.
Among the three Hong Tao people, Boss Liu, Pan and Hong Tao's physical strength was pretty good. At least they could walk without relying on others. But the fat boss couldn't. He only walked for more than ten minutes and he was out of breath like a broken bellows and mineral water bottle.
He almost never left his mouth. The water almost flowed out from all parts of his body as soon as he drank it from his mouth.
Although the remaining four black staff and forest police are not as powerful as the Maasai warriors, they are still much stronger than these hunting guides and Hong Tao. Not only do they have to walk by themselves, but they also have to carry the team on their backs.
Supplies and guns, and you also have to hold a machete to help the team open the way forward. Even so, no one seems too tired.
The originally half-hour journey took Hong Tao and the others a full hour to walk. Just when the fat boss couldn't walk anymore and was about to give up, the Maasai warriors brought good news in time. That damn male lion was just ahead.
Less than 200 meters away, when the fat boss heard the news, he sat down on the ground and refused to leave. As for whether there were poisonous insects biting him, he didn't care. At this time, Hong Tao even gave up the chance to shoot.
If you give it to him, he will never be able to pick up the gun.
"Don't rush to aim now. Take a few minutes to rest, calm down, and try to kill with one shot. You don't want to go on a long march again, do you?" One black man was left to take care of the fat boss, and the rest followed him with their waists bent.
The Maasai warrior slowly moved to a leeward position about 100 meters away from the male lion. When Hong Tao was about to take aim with his gun, Han Lan stopped him.
"Okay, I'm ready." Hong Tao followed Holland's instructions, took a deep breath and slowly exhaled. He adjusted his body for a few minutes. After feeling that his breathing was no longer so rapid, he picked up the gun again and signaled that he was ready.
Ready.
A hundred meters away is a lone acacia tree with a very large tree cover. Just under the shade and close to the root of the tree, an adult male lion is sleeping on the root of the tree, except for the tail that is wagging from time to time.
Apart from driving away the harassment of mosquitoes and flies, I didn't seem to feel that I was in danger.
