The Strongest Lion

Chapter 12 Something Even More Powerful Than the Lion Brothers

Chapter Twelve: Something Even More Powerful Than the Lion Brothers

The dry season continues, and life is becoming increasingly difficult for the lions.

The Jike pride has only two lionesses, and their chances of catching prey are getting lower and lower.

Lionesses need a lot of food to replenish their nutrition during lactation in order to produce milk.

When lionesses are not getting enough to eat, they produce significantly less milk.

As the lion cubs grew bigger, they needed more and more milk.

This is where the problem arises.

Lisa and Elsa can't even get enough to eat themselves during the dry season, so how much milk can they produce for these ten lion cubs who are already three months old!

Therefore, Chu Ye has been feeling like he's never had enough to eat lately.

But this is how lions live during the dry season; cubs and adult lions alike go hungry.

However, it's not just the lions that are starving; all the carnivores on the savanna have to tighten their belts during the dry season.

This is why, during the dry season, the grasslands become a battleground for carnivores.

During the rainy season, carnivores are busy hunting and raising their young.

During the dry season, carnivores are busy competing with other carnivores.

During the dry season, it becomes more difficult for carnivores to hunt herbivores.

Because the wildebeest and zebras, the largest populations on the grasslands, have left.

The remaining prey consists either of the very large Big Five or the very small species such as the springtail, warthog, hog, and badger.

For groups of carnivores to survive the dry season, they have to adopt some very special strategies.

For carnivores, hunting the Big Five or other smaller prey is quite difficult.

So, at this time, the carnivores began to set their sights on the young of other carnivores.

During the dry season, the young become the primary food source for adult carnivores. At this time, the carnivores have no choice but to hunt the young of other carnivores.

Of course, if they are truly starving, they will have no choice but to eat their own cubs. Lions have a history of eating their own cubs during the dry season.

Although it sounds incredibly cruel, it's actually quite normal in the animal world, especially for animals on the African savanna.

After all, it's not easy for a small animal to grow to adulthood. And even if the cubs are eaten, they can still reproduce.

The lions' choice of such an extreme lifestyle is also a measure to protect the species.

Although Chu Ye had only been on the grasslands for a little over three months, he had already sensed how cruel this world was. All kinds of animals were exhausting their physical strength and intelligence in order to survive.

Don't say that animals lack intelligence. That's simply comparing human intelligence to animal intelligence. Animals are certainly not as intelligent as humans, but that doesn't mean they lack wisdom.

It can be said that every animal in the world possesses intelligence, and they all use their intelligence to survive in this world.

The dry season had only just begun, but Chu Ye could already feel the cruelty of the African savanna. First, a stray male lion attacked the Zeke pride, and then a pair of male lion brothers attacked the Zeke pride as well.

Although both attacks were averted thanks to the combined efforts of Jike, the two lionesses, and Chu Ye, the situation was ultimately resolved.

But Chu Ye knew that as the dry season deepened, the dangers would only increase.

Lisa and Elsa go hunting every night, but their success rate is getting lower and lower. They are also catching fewer and fewer prey.

As the number and weight of prey decreased, Lisa and Elsa were able to produce less and less milk.

Chu Ye and the other nine lion cubs were never full.

However, these lion cubs had been eating well for a while and were quite strong, so they could endure it for a while longer.

However, there are two lion cubs that are a bit worrying, two of the six cubs Elsa gave birth to—a male and a female cub. These two cubs were not very strong at birth.

Over the next month, although he grew stronger, he was still considerably weaker than the other eight lion cubs.

Chu Ye was very worried about the two lion cubs. He felt that they might not survive the dry season. After all, the dry season had only ended a month ago, and there were still four or five months left. Such a long period of time would be a severe test for the two thin lion cubs.

Because of the hot weather, lions are almost always active at night. During the day, they sleep and rest to conserve their energy, and then go out to hunt at night.

The lion cubs are the same; to conserve energy, they don't move around much. When the lionesses are resting, they lie down and rest beside them.

But even with only one lion cub, it was still unwilling to stay put.

This little lion is Chu Ye.

For Chu Ye, every day is now extremely stressful. He feels that danger could befall his pride at any moment.

That morning, while the lionesses were resting, Chu Ye climbed up a big tree and looked around, trying to see if there were any dangerous animals in their pride's territory.

Chu Ye was initially worried that other nomadic male lions might invade. After all, the greatest enemy of a lion pride is nomadic male lions, because they are the main factor determining the fate of the cubs in a pride.

Whether the lion cubs can survive the dry season depends on whether the male lion in the pride can survive it. If the male lion in a pride is defeated by another nomadic male lion before the dry season is over, then the lion cubs in that pride will face annihilation.

Only if the male lions in a pride can continuously defeat invading male lions and lead the pride through the dry season will the cubs in that pride be relatively healthy.

Chu Ye already knew these common-sense facts. Its biggest worry was that its male lion father would be replaced by another male lion.

These days, Chu Ye has been looking out from the big tree, trying to see if any dangerous male lions have entered their territory.

However, he never saw any other stray male lions come to their territory. He saw neither other stray male lions nor any other carnivores.