"I've missed milk again …"
For a few days in a row, the leopard cub kept falling asleep and missing milk because it couldn't bear the burden and couldn't stop thinking.
It was full and hungry every day, which made it much thinner than the other two cubs. The mother leopard couldn't do anything about it. She seemed to have gotten used to the cub's natural dislike of milk.
But the leopard cub wasn't happy. It wanted milk!
"This is so annoying … Why do I know everything?"
"Why do I know about the single tree? In the dry tropical areas of Africa, in order to reduce the evaporation of water, the leaves gradually degenerate and even disappear. The branches turn green and replace the leaves for light and warmth … "
The leopard cub was dumbfounded, deeply shocked by its own knowledge.
As time went by, the more things it saw, smelled, and felt, the more knowledge it gained.
If it thought about it, it could even learn more.
However, hunger made it want to give up. Knowledge couldn't be eaten, so it wanted milk!
"Breastfeeding is very important for a leopard. I'll die if this goes on!"
The leopard cub made this judgment very clearly, so it decided to stop thinking.
When its mother was out, it didn't think too much. Instead, it closed its eyes and lay down, meditating in the darkness, waiting for milk.
After two days, the leopard cub could finally control the knowledge that popped up from time to time.
It wouldn't pop up when it didn't want it.
It was very happy that it could finally drink milk normally.
However, it didn't always have milk whenever it wanted to.
Sometimes, even if the leopard cub was awake and waited for its mother, it still didn't have milk to drink. Sometimes, it only had water.
Moreover, it discovered a strange thing. Sometimes, even though it was full, its brain still felt particularly hungry.
It seemed that somewhere far away, there was a consciousness that was also hungry, and it was connected to its mind.
"Hungry … Meow …"
The leopard cub was very disappointed. It couldn't help but think again. As it pondered why there was no milk to drink, some knowledge about its mother popped up in its mind.
The mother leopard worked very hard every day. She didn't dare to sleep at night and kept a vigilant eye on the environment.
In the morning, she would catch up on sleep. She didn't dare to go hunting until noon, when the sun was at its fiercest. Because at this time, the lion and hyena were sleeping.
The prey resources in this area were quite poor. Now that it was the dry season, they could only find prey near water sources. There were also many predators there.
It had to quickly capture prey without alerting other predators and then take it away to eat. Only then could it return with a full stomach to feed its cubs. It was very difficult.
A cheetah's body was built to hunt prey quickly. Due to its poor heat dissipation, its stamina was not enough to support it running for a long time.
Because its teeth were too short, it could only bite its prey's throat and suffocate it to death.
Due to various reasons, if luck was not on its side, not to mention feeding it, it might even starve to death.
The leopard cub stopped complaining as he gradually understood what was going on. Instead, he began to understand and care for his mother. It was too difficult for this young mother to raise her three cubs on her own.
However, the leopard cub couldn't do anything about it. It couldn't even move.
She could only hug her sisters during the day and lick her mother at night, rubbing her little face with her.
The mother cheetah enjoyed the licking and also used her soft tongue on the cubs.
Just like that, the family of cheetahs struggled through this period of time.
Finally, twenty-five days after the cubs were born, they were able to follow their mother.
Although it was convenient to leave the cubs in the grass and hunt alone, the cubs' safety was not guaranteed.
If a predator discovered this place, they would almost certainly die.
Therefore, while the cubs could stumble along with the mother cheetah, the mother cheetah began a more difficult life of hunting with her cubs.
"Meow!" The two naive female cheetahs would always interrupt the mother cheetah's hunting rhythm.
When the mother cheetahs were lurking, their clumsy hiding skills or their silly cries would alert their prey.
This forced the mother cheetah to charge ahead of time. In the end, it would be a waste of energy.
"Idiots! Can't you two shut up? If the prey runs away, we'll all starve! "The leopard cub criticized the two female cheetahs angrily.
Of course, the female cheetahs didn't understand its cries. Instead, they licked it.
"Meow?"
"…" The leopard cub lay on its stomach, speechless. "It's a male leopard's habit to be naive. Why are you two so noisy?"
Fortunately, they were precocious female cheetahs.
After witnessing their mother's failure and their subsequent starvation, they deeply remembered the connection between the two events.
In addition, the leopard cub taught them crazily all day long so that they would have enough milk. Finally, in just two days, they learned how to be silent and hide themselves.
"Mom can finally hunt properly …" The leopard cub was very pleased.
However, the meal they longed for never came.
The mother cheetah wandered around with the three cubs. In this vast desert, they had to walk a long way before they could find prey.
However, after seeing the prey, the mother cheetah didn't choose to hunt. After hesitating for a while, she chose to leave with them.
"Are there other predators?" The leopard cub was too short to see anything.
However, it knew that its mother must have found a lion or something like that.
The mother cheetah walked with them for a day and estimated that they had walked more than ten kilometers.
The three cubs were starving. The leopard cub was in a daze and really wanted to sleep. However, in order not to fall behind, it could only follow.
"It's night time … Looks like we won't have anything to eat tonight …" The leopard cub was desperate. Seeing that the mother cheetah had found a place to rest, it immediately lay down on top of her and fell asleep.
When it woke up, the other two cubs were still sleeping, and the mother cheetah was still vigilant.
After not having enough food for three days, the leopard cub was so hungry that it felt like it was going to die.
The mother cheetah obviously knew about the situation, and was very depressed.
However, life had to go on. She continued to walk with the three cubs. After crossing a large stretch of desert, they finally saw a tall guy.
"Ostrich …" The leopard cub recognized the target immediately.
The mother cheetah seemed to be hesitating.
The leopard cub licked its mother pitifully. Ostrich, kill it! No way! Haven't you eaten ostrich before?
The mother cheetah must have eaten an ostrich before, but it might have been kicked by the ostrich … Or maybe it was wondering if it could catch up with the ostrich … Anyway, it was considering whether or not to hunt.
Although the mother cheetah could starve for another two days, the cubs couldn't. They had been starving for so long that they were almost at their limit … She had to catch some prey.
"Come on, Mom!" The leopard cub watched the mother cheetah sneak up on it with anticipation.
However, the ostrich was too tall. In this desolate desert with only a few bushes and weeds, it could see the cheetah approaching from a hundred meters away.
It trotted a few steps to increase the distance between them, looking very relaxed.
The mother cheetah kept approaching, but the ostrich was obviously avoiding it, keeping a distance of at least a hundred meters.
In the end, the mother cheetah was forced to sprint. However, the ostrich wasn't slow at all. It was too difficult for the starving mother cheetah to close the hundred-meter gap with its speed.
After a while, the mother cheetah, who had been kicked by the ostrich, finally slowed down and gave up, panting heavily.
"No way! Are we going to starve again today? We're going to starve to death! "The leopard cub was nervous and desperate.
He wanted to jump on the ostrich's face and bite it to death.
"Puff!"
Suddenly, the leopard cub violently threw a stone at the ostrich.
It even crossed hundreds of meters and chased the ostrich all the way to its face, accurately hitting its eye.
"Bang!"
The hit wasn't heavy, but the ostrich had a small head. Such a precise hit, coupled with the sharpness of the stone, broke the ostrich's eye. The ostrich fell to the ground dizzily and passed out for a short while.
The mother cheetah was stunned. She immediately gathered her remaining strength and rushed up, ignoring the heavy burden in her heart. Finally, she bit the ostrich's neck.
She succeeded. However, the mother cheetah collapsed on the ground, panting heavily with her teeth on the ostrich's neck.
She was too hot. The explosive run had caused her body temperature to rise sharply. If she was too hot, her internal organs and brain would be damaged.
At this moment, she was barely able to fight back.
The leopard cub hurriedly ran over with the other two cubs. Seeing that their mother was in a bad situation, they quickly dragged the ostrich's fat body to cover her.
The ostrich's feathers were very large. They blocked the sun and helped the mother cheetah recover her body temperature.
Otherwise, under the hot sun, the sand could cook the mother cheetah …
"Hang in there!" The leopard cub licked the mother cheetah with his tongue, absorbing heat through his saliva to help dissipate the heat.
The two cubs didn't know what was going on, but they were very nervous, so they did as well.
Finally, after an hour of hard work, the mother cheetah slowly stood up and gradually regained her ability to move.
She was very weak, but she still insisted on dragging the ostrich away.
The three cubs helped to push the ostrich. Although it was a drop in the bucket, it was better than nothing.
They dragged the prey to a tall bush, where the mother cheetah lay down tiredly again. The temperature was too high.
The leopard cub had to pluck the mother's fur with his newly grown baby teeth to save some time for her to eat.
It was the only one doing this. The other two female leopards were too tired to move.
For some reason, although the leopard cub was very tired and his body couldn't bear the burden, he could still keep going.
He felt that he could squeeze the last bit of strength out of his body. This amazing self-control allowed him to keep moving.
The mother cheetah was very surprised to see the leopard cub pluck the ostrich's feathers, but she didn't know how to express it or think about it. She just licked the cub and got up to eat.
She had to be full. Only when she was full would her cubs have milk to drink.
"I want milk … I want milk …" The leopard cub waited in a daze.
The mother cheetah was gulping down the food and looking around vigilantly from time to time.
The leopard cub lamented the speed at which she ate. "Stop looking. You have to be alert every day. Aren't you tired?
Suddenly! The mother cheetah stood up abruptly and ran away with the three cubs in her mouth.
Because she was in such a hurry, one of the cubs fell out of her mouth.
"What's that?" The leopard cub vaguely saw something approaching.
The mother cheetah hurriedly carried the cubs dozens of meters away and went back to pick up the one that had fallen out of her mouth.
Only then could the leopard cub turn around and see the visitor clearly. It was a hyena dripping saliva.
"Haha!" The hyena cackled and pounced on the mother cheetah.
The mother cheetah ran away with the cubs in her mouth and watched as the hyena ate her prey.
"Was … was it stolen?"
"Ah! Go away! "The leopard cub was so angry that he rushed back.
The other two cubs, on the other hand, obeyed their instincts of fear. They stared blankly at the ferocious hyena without any temper.
Unfortunately, the leopard cub was stopped by his mother when he wanted to go back.
His mother watched the hyena eat greedily, but she had no choice but to retreat.
But how could the leopard cub let his mother give up the food she had worked so hard to get? She would starve to death!
"Go to hell!"
Bang! A stone was thrown at the hyena.
The hyena had already sensed the stone and dodged it.
However, the stone took a sharp turn and landed precisely in the dog's eye.
It made the hyena's eye sockets bleed.
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