novelsite Chapter 46 The Female Baboon Overflowing with Maternal Love
Chapter 46 The Female Baboon Overflowing with Maternal Love
Chapter 46 The Female Baboon Overflowing with Maternal Love
Chu Ye felt that the baboons were afraid of the wild dogs, which was why they dared not come down to the ground. Therefore, Chu Ye decided not to observe the baboons any longer.
Just when Chu Ye was about to stop observing the baboons, he suddenly heard some baboon screams coming from the troop.
Furthermore, the leaves on the large trees where the baboon troop lived were rustling incessantly. It looked as if some prey had climbed the trees to ambush the baboons.
Upon seeing this, Chu Ye was utterly perplexed.
"What's going on? Have the wild dogs somehow managed to climb up the trees? They're actually able to climb up the trees and ambush the baby baboons!"
Chu Ye watched as the branches and leaves of the tree where the baboon troop lived swayed incessantly, as if some hunter had climbed up the tree.
He's worried about the baboons again right now!
"No, I have to go and see what kind of prey it is that can climb up a big tree to ambush the baboons."
As Chu Ye pondered this, he climbed down from the tree and headed towards the troop of baboons in the distance.
He moved swiftly through the bushes and soon reached the large trees where a group of baboons lived.
However, after Chu Ye arrived here, he did not see any stray dogs.
Clearly, it wasn't wild dogs attacking the baboons.
"What's going on? There aren't any stray dogs here?"
Chu Ye looked around but didn't see a single stray dog. He could conclude that it wasn't a stray dog that attacked the baboon.
"Could it be a cheetah?"
After Chu Ye could no longer see the stray dogs, he immediately thought of another type of carnivore.
Cheetahs are arguably the natural enemies of baboons. In comparison, attacks by packs of wild dogs are merely occasional occurrences in the lives of baboons. The real threat to baboons comes from the cheetah.
Cheetahs are tree climbers; they can easily ascend to the tops of tall trees. Furthermore, cheetahs are very slender and adept at maneuvering in trees.
Baboons, which live almost entirely in trees, are not afraid of hunters who can only move on the ground.
Even though lions can climb trees, their bulky size makes them unsuitable for maneuvering in tall trees. Even if a lion could climb a tree to hunt a baboon, the chances of success would be slim.
Cheetahs, on the other hand, have a very high success rate when hunting baboons from the trees. This is because cheetahs can see all the way to the treetops, something lions simply cannot do.
Chu Ye realized it wasn't wild dogs attacking the baboons, so he figured it might be a cheetah.
So Chu Ye began to carefully observe the baboons darting around in the big tree.
Upon seeing this, he was even more confused. It seemed he had not only wronged the stray dog, but also the cheetah.
There was no sign of a cheetah in the tree. Instead, baboons were darting about, seemingly fighting amongst themselves.
"Oh, so it's just the baboons fighting amongst themselves!"
Chu Ye felt that if it wasn't a hunter attacking the baboons, then it must be an internal struggle among the baboons.
"What's wrong with these baboons? They were just attacked by a pack of wild dogs, and instead of sticking together, what are they fighting about now!"
"Could it be that the adult male baboon inside the baboon pack wants to challenge the baboon leader?"
Chu Ye didn't understand why the baboons were fighting at first; he just thought about things that might happen in the baboons' lives based on his own ideas.
But after Chu Ye looked more closely, he felt something was wrong. He saw that it wasn't male baboons fighting, but female baboons.
Upon seeing this, Chu Ye was puzzled again.
"What's going on? Could it be that there's some internal strife in the baboon leader's harem? Are these female baboons fighting over who gets his attention?" Chu Ye was lost in thought again.
But after observing for a while, Chu Ye still felt it didn't seem right. He saw that the female baboons seemed to be fighting over baby baboons. One of the female baboons kept snatching baby baboons from the arms of other female baboons.
The other female baboons were clearly unwilling to give their offspring to this one, so the female baboon started fighting with them.
However, the female baboons were all roughly equal in fighting ability. This particular female baboon tried to steal another's offspring, but it failed several times. The other female baboons were all working very hard to protect their own babies.
"Hey, what's wrong with this female baboon? Why are you trying to steal someone else's baby?" Chu Ye was increasingly confused.
The leader of this group of baboons, Lachi, simply sat in front of a tree branch, completely ignoring the female baboons fighting as if it were a perfectly normal occurrence.
"What's going on? What's wrong with this female baboon? Why is she trying to steal someone else's baby?" Chu Ye was puzzled by the female baboon's behavior.
After thinking for a while, Chu Ye suddenly realized what was going on.
"Oh, I know, it must be the baby of this female baboon. It was hunted down and killed by that pack of wild dogs yesterday. Now that she has no offspring, her maternal instincts are overflowing, and she wants to steal someone else's baby."
Chu Ye finally understood what was going on. It seemed that this female baboon could not accept the loss of her cub, so she wanted to take someone else's child for herself.
"Is it because baboons are primates, and they have richer emotions, with female baboons showing stronger maternal love than other animals?"
Chu Ye couldn't explain the female baboon's behavior, so he could only come up with some ideas and make his own deductions.
Actually, it's not just baboons that are overflowing with maternal love; other animals are the same. Someone once saw a lioness in Serengeti National Park who, after losing her cubs, captured a cheetah cub and raised it as her own.
From this perspective, it seems that whether human or animal, females all possess an innate desire to be mothers. When they lose their own children, they may want to adopt other people's children as their own.
This female baboon seems to fit the bill. Because her own offspring were killed by a pack of wild dogs, she wanted to steal other people's children to raise.
It seems that she loved her child very much and could not accept the reality of losing her child.
"But didn't that pack of wild dogs hunt down three baby baboons yesterday? It's impossible that all three baby baboons were born to the same female baboon."
Although Chu Ye made the correct deduction, he still couldn't explain why this female baboon who had lost her cub was so overwhelmed with maternal love. Other female baboons who had also lost their cubs didn't do the same!
Chu Ye couldn't figure it out for a while.