Chapter 31: ◎Prairie Model Working Leopard (31)◎
The last tail of the rainy season has just passed, and she spent most of the time in the trees. She still blushes a little and her heart beats when she thinks about it.
Returning to the treatment she received when she was a cub, Shi Qiao still wished that she could go to the ground to eat, instead of having Klein go up and down. After feeding her, he had to go down to drive away the vultures and hyenas that came to eat and drink. It seemed like a lot of trouble.
The boss didn't find it troublesome at all.
Anyway, the little leopard was raised like this when she was still a cub.
Only then did Shi Qiao realize the advantage of falling in love with a big man. A mature male mother would just spoil the leopard into a salted fish without having to do anything by herself.
And the other party doesn't think this is called salted fish.
As a female, she does not have the physical advantage of a male, so she is bound to be more tired. As her male, he should do everything like feeding, not to mention that even if there is no restlessness period, feeding his own baby is not a difficult task.
The little leopard used to be keen on hunting, but now it is finally forced to rest.
All baboons know that the recent leopard cub is lazy and doesn't even eat by herself.
Shi Qiao: Some baboons should not be too nosy.
They kept staring at the leopard as if they were following some prairie TV series, and when she got better, she went to fight with the baboons.
The little leopard roared at the squeaking green baboons and drove them away from the nearby tree. She watched the group of primates run away before turning back. As soon as she turned around, a piece of meat appeared beside her mouth that had been waiting for her to eat.
Shi Qiao helplessly opened her mouth and swallowed it. She didn't blame the baboons for coming to watch the fun. It was really because the boss was too bored.
The restless period ebbs and flows like the tide. She estimated that her restless period was almost over. The two familiar little flames in Klein's golden eyes had also subsided and he had returned to his usual calmness.
After eating half of the gazelle meat and taking a long nap, she woke up and walked to the pond to drink some water. Only then did Shi Qiao feel that her tired body was much relieved.
She lowered her head and licked the cool water again. She felt that the water level was much lower than the last time she saw it, and most of the big rock was exposed. Now the dry season was really close.
Shi Qiao glanced at the distance. He hadn't inspected the territory for so many days. Some of the originally green spiky grasses and shrubs were no longer able to stand upright, and some were beginning to turn yellow.
During the change of seasons, the grassland changes day by day, and herbivores also begin to move around in large numbers.
Shi Qiao listened to the sound of lions chasing prey in the distance. According to last year's experience, it would not be long before the day would come when he would follow the large herbivore migration, and he didn't know when they would start their journey.
Seeing that the little leopard was thinking about this problem, Klein also looked in the direction of the lions in the north: "We will go to the north in a few days."
The restless period had a certain impact on the beast, but he was okay. After all, when it comes to physical fitness, the little leopard suffered more. He had to give the opponent some time to recover.
Although Shi Qiao didn't want to admit it, she had to say that she did look thinner than before after the restless period. Fortunately, the boss fed her every day for the next few days, so her muscles were not greatly reduced.
After their activities become the same as usual, they still have to find ways to make up for them to cope with the harsh dry season.
After drinking the water, they met the male lion Sunny who was chasing the prey to the south of the territory. There is no need to patrol recently, the appetite of the sub-adults is getting bigger and bigger, and the male lion leader has also joined the hunting camp of the lionesses. The male lions will not only fight and patrol, but also hunt with twice the result with half the effort.
Nothing happened when he went back, so Shi Qiao dragged Klein to find a shady spot by the pond to watch the lion hunt.
As she looked at it, she saw something worth learning. Certain lions are capable of being leaders. Their best skill is to directly go up and choke the prey.
Or use the front paws and half of the body to apply pressure, so that the prey is suffocated and unable to struggle, and in the end, it can only be bitten on the throat.
The little leopard looked at it intently and decided that she could combine the lion's hunting skills with the leopard's in the future. However, the leopard does not have the superior weight of the lion, so she still needs to eat more.
The prey of the lions this time was a zebra. The zebra group boiled for a while, and an adult female became the victim. Others of the same kind ran to another location and became quiet.
Herbivores also know that after hunting once, the lions will not come again, so they can rest peacefully in place.
Having just finished eating the prey, she was not hungry at all. After witnessing the hunting skills of the male lion, the little leopard had no intention of continuing to watch.
The former cub has become a lion that can eat at the same table as its father, and will soon grow into a larger adult lion. Competition on the grassland continues from generation to generation, reaching its highest point during the dry season.
The animals here are still planning in advance for the dry season, but the documentary crew on the other side, who have been waiting for the entire rainy season, can no longer hold back.
Andrew came here a few days ago, but the preliminary preparations were delayed for a few days, and they have not yet entered the grassland. When the official opening time comes, they can follow the guide to shoot in depth again.
He was extremely looking forward to seeing the current situation of the two leopards that sparked heated discussions last year. The first thing he did when he came to Africa was to share his current IP address with animal lovers online.
This time the filming will also take a different and fresh way, which is also a very popular emerging project on the Internet recently——live broadcast.
Nowadays, the grassland ecology is well maintained, and the scope of the natural national park is also very safe. The photographer will lead the audience to observe the animal friends they once paid close attention to from a first-hand perspective.
The first half of the documentary, which has been produced for more than half a year, will also be released simultaneously. At that time, netizens can understand the antecedents in the documentary while watching the subsequent lives of the animals through live broadcasts. Even the famous scenes in the live broadcast will be included in the second half of the documentary, which not only saves time but also promotes publicity.
They can even generate income for their work team through live streaming.
Seeing that the documentary team that had been preparing for a long time returned to the grassland, animal lovers rushed to help after seeing the documentary aired as scheduled.
——The grassland in the dry season is so special, and the wild atmosphere rushes towards you.
——Watching the first episode, I feel that the production is very well-made, every frame is very clear, and the selfishness of the photographer can be seen. The shots of the leopard are particularly rich, hahaha.
——I finally saw Thea and Klein moving! Is there anyone out there who specifically picks their lenses to watch like I do?
——Me, me, I just want to see how the prairie male mother raises his cub.
——Watch the first episode again. It's still unbelievable that Klein didn't kill the strange cub when he saw it, and even took her back.
——He was very kind and just walked away without biting her to death. He was kind-hearted even if he left it among the leopards. I didn't expect that he would take it back and raise it by himself. I was really shocked.
——I can only say that it was fate and I saw the right thing.
——The most outrageous documentary in history, but the authenticity cannot be doubted! Did Klein pioneer the practice of male mothers raising cubs?
——At least in the many documentaries I have watched, no male will adopt a cub.
Just one episode has brought about more heated discussions than before, and the news of these animal lovers has even reached the ears of netizens who have never paid attention to these things.
More and more people came over to watch the fun, and to see who the leopard with its cubs and the cub were.
Soon they saw from the screenshots of the photos and the short videos taken separately that it was not a saint, but a domineering prairie bandit and the super cute Thea.
The moving and screaming little leopard is more vivid than the still photos, which people have to admit.
If they were Klein, they probably wouldn't be able to resist the opponent's super cute attack.
By the time the documentary was broadcast to a certain extent, the popularity of the two leopards had remained high, even worse than before.
Thea and Klein's appearance and intelligence beyond ordinary leopards have had a great impact. Now it is not only discussed in the unpopular animal circle, but also all netizens search for it from the tag.
——Hurry and release me to the grassland. I will compete with Klein to raise the cub!
——I, who has no interest in leopards, even smiled when I saw it. The contrast between the two was so great. Who would have thought that Klein, who was so arrogant and domineering outside, would still nurse his child when he came home?
——Hahahahahaha, the word "milk child" is too vivid.
——A certain male leopard was very embarrassed when he first started raising babies, just like me when I was raising babies.
——Later, he was not willing to make proper arrangements for his little baby. He even held her in his arms and licked her fur.
——Very meticulous, even eating the meat in small bites. Some leopard mothers are not so considerate when raising their babies.
——The camera crew won't find them quickly, let's see how big Thea is now.
——When Thea reaches adulthood, she should have been let out to start her own business, right?
——Leopards want to be independent when they grow up. They are born loners.
——No! She can't bear to leave for Klein.
——Wouldn't it mean that they are no longer in the same place now? It would be very difficult for the film crew to take pictures, and they may not be able to find them.
In fact, photography is not difficult at all. Before humans entered the grasslands, they had already sent out aerial cameras to look for traces of wild beasts. Especially the now hotly sought-after leopards are the number one target.
The biggest inconvenience is probably that you have to fly from place to place, which consumes a lot of aerial photography.
Fortunately, technology is developing. Infrared cameras can detect the whereabouts of animals by scanning them one by one and can transmit them to humans in real time for their confirmation.
In the footage captured by the aerial camera, Andrew was pleasantly surprised to find that Thea and Klein were still together!
He pulled back the progress bar and looked at it carefully and repeatedly frame by frame. The tiny cub whose spots were not very clear had transformed into an adult female. Her size was no smaller than that of the leopard mother he had photographed.
Even the low-definition pictures from the aerial camera couldn't hide the beauty of the other person, who was even more beautiful than her mother.
And there is Klein who is still as close to her as he was when she was a child.
The young male leopard did not expel the little leopard from his side and returned to being single again. Instead, they remained inseparable from the scale and firmly continued to accompany each other.
According to leopard practice, adult leopards like Thea's age were released half a year ago and began to learn to work alone. After half a year, they will be driven out of their mother's territory and find a new place to stay.
Now, Klein is still sharing this territory with the little leopard he brought up, and has no intention of separating.
Andrew accelerated the preparations at hand and decided to head towards the leopard's territory in three days.
When the filming team arrived at the acacia forest that had been photographed by the aerial camera, they happened to see two leopards resting side by side on the tree.
Shi Qiao heard the sound of tires driving across the sand almost immediately and then turned her head to look at the source of the sound. The rainy season was over, and the grassland was once again visited by humans.
Sure enough, not long after, the off-road vehicle and the dark camera above came into view.
When Shi Qiao saw the familiar photographer, she confirmed that he was the one who followed them and took pictures of them during the last dry season. She raised her tail to say hello symbolically: Hello, it's really hard to travel thousands of miles to shoot.
Andrew felt excited when he saw the little leopard raising her head and looking at him.
There was no surprise in the amber eyes of the little leopard when she looked at the humans, and he could still tell a hint of familiarity as if she still remembered them.
Andrew couldn't help but waved to the animals in the tree, and they met again. He was relieved to see the two leopards spending the rainy season unharmed.
The lens was zoomed in and the focus was adjusted. The leopard's markings were all clearly visible, and its smooth fur shone, clean and beautiful.
Neither Thea nor Klein had obvious scars on their bodies. They obviously didn't suffer at the hands of other ferocious beasts this rainy season. Life on the grassland couldn't be said to be completely comfortable, but these two leopards seemed to be living a good life.
After noticing that the little leopard moved its tail, a certain male leopard who was still closing his eyes to relax also opened his eyes.
Andrew turned on the live broadcast equipment and showed the camera to the handsome and powerful male leopard: "Hello everyone, this is the grassland live broadcast of the documentary team. What we are seeing now are the protagonists of the documentary, Thea and Klein."
Hearing her name, Shi Qiao moved her ears.
Live streaming?
These humans are getting better at tinkering with new things.
Thinking that being the protagonist of a documentary also requires humans to watch it over and over again, and that live broadcasts are similar, Shi Qiao looked at the live broadcast footage and blinked.
Finding that the other party was so bored that she was greeting humans, Klein took the little leopard into his arms and used his body to block the prying eyes of the foreign creature.
The extremely possessive movements made Andrew pause while debugging the equipment. He looked at the live broadcast room with more and more people, and asked the audience in confusion: "Why do I feel that their relationship is getting closer and closer?"
The barrage in the live broadcast room has become chaotic.
Various people who called themselves uncles and aunts gathered together and greeted each other over and over again.
: Ah ah ah ah ah ah, I finally see the grown-up cutey!
: Thea, how come you are still so cute even when you have grown up? The leopard spots on your body look like roses, so beautiful.
: How come this leopard doesn't grow crooked at all and become more and more beautiful? Is it because my aesthetics have finally become leopard style?
: Klein hahahaha, my destined male mother, why do you still love your child so much when she grows up?
: Don't love certain leopards too much.
: The paws are hugging tightly, hehe.
: I used to want to eat but didn't dare to eat this combination. Now I'm old enough to eat it casually.
Andrew looked at the uniform love emoticons and fell into deep thought, opening the door to a new world.
Humans don't know what the two leopards have experienced during this rainy season, but that doesn't stop them from being able to intuitively feel the closeness between the leopards through the lens.
In particular, a certain boss tried to gain the attention of the little leopard without anyone noticing. He rubbed his head against the other person's chin and even picked up her soft paws and licked them. Finally, the little leopard who paid attention to human movements turned her head and rubbed him back.
: Eat! Give them all to me! Let me see who is not addicted.
: Eyes drawn ah ah ah ah ah.
: It's outrageous, pink bubbles can be seen on the two leopards.
: Raise the cubs you picked up by yourself, and eat them when they are grown. The main idea is to leave nothing to the outside.
: I don't believe it. They must still have a purely cub-mother relationship. I don't believe it. Why are their tails even stuck together?
: Stop deceiving yourself upstairs and join the CP army.
: Thank you to the film crew for the good idea of giving us a live broadcast. I am showing the documentary on the left and watching the live broadcast on the right.
: On the left is the leopard who is still growing, and on the right is the leopard who is in love. Such a pairing is so romantic.
: Last year I was still worried that they would part ways, but now I can finally feel relieved.
Although the audience in a certain comment wanted to insist that the two leopards still had a pure relationship of raising and being raised, Andrew had to admit that such a slimy look was no different from a honeymoon couple.
Human beings felt a little complicated for a while.
They couldn't tell whether it was the little cabbage that they thought was bigger, or the big leopard that they thought was better than the cabbage.
They shot a documentary to capture the old father's sense of déjà vu.
All the previous doubts were finally answered after seeing the two leopards. No wonder Thea didn't become independent on her own when she became an adult, and Klein didn't expel each other like other parents.
It turns out that they have become a couple.
This result was both unexpected and reasonable, and it also made people feel a bit like "that's how it should be".
Two leopards with superior appearance and unique personalities, Thea and Klein, are like two puzzle pieces with different patterns. When combined, they form the most perfect and fitting shape.
"Everything in the world is unpredictable." Andrew sighed. "We also formed two special shooting teams to prepare for separate operations. We don't need them now. Let's let the other team shoot the lions."
After hearing the photographer's emotion, the barrage responded in real time.
: It's not surprising at all. This aunt had predicted the current result long ago during the last dry season.
: Yes, although the family team was skeptical when they said this at the time, the facts proved that they were true!
: I think both family relationships and love and friendship are very good.
: It's really good to be with each other like this. It allows me to see different leopards.
Not only did the audience in the live broadcast room see a different leopard, but netizens after the recording also uploaded the latest news about Thea and Klein, which refreshed the knowledge of humans who missed the live broadcast.
Shi Qiao still didn't know how big a stir she and his boss had caused in the circle of animal lovers.
She was still being licked by Klein who suddenly didn't want to be disturbed by outsiders.
Since the humans were so close, she subconsciously wanted to tilt her head to listen to what the other person was talking about on the device, but this, in her opinion, a rare recreational activity, was hindered.
He had no problem with outsiders, but he had a problem with outsiders diverting all of Little Leopard's attention as soon as they appeared.
Shi Qiao's eyelids also twitched when she saw the always scornful boss next to her turning to the side.
Sure enough, the next second the opponent used a trick inspired by lion cubs and rolled towards her.
Shi Qiao: "..."
Foul, this is a big foul!
Originally, she was very interested in the pile of fancy live broadcast equipment on the photographer's car, but now she was forced to turn her gaze and place it on the boss's exposed light-colored belly.
If the other party adopts a beauty offensive, she will surrender unconditionally.
This time it was her who blocked the camera and human eyes. Shi Qiao jumped outside to block the boss. Klein's extremely precious coquettish state was left to her to see.
When the two leopards were tired of leaning on the tree, he stretched his body and jumped down from the branch.
When it's time to migrate, let's hunt one last time in the territory before leaving. He hopes she can eat well before setting off on the road.
Klein shouted in the distance, and the low-pitched but extremely penetrating sound pressure instantly reached the cheetah's ears, and Cudi ran over quickly.
The strongest foodie king must be always available when it comes to hunting.
Andrew was fascinated: "I didn't expect that after such a long time, this cheetah would still be so close to Thea and Klein."
The barrage instantly understood everything——like a family of three.
If Shi Qiao could see the live broadcast room, she would definitely say what a family of three is, a certain cheetah is older than her!
In other words, it just looks smaller because of its small stature.
She feels that the two leopard worlds between herself and the boss are extremely nourishing. It would be good without the younger brother. However, the younger brother also has his own role. At least in the dry season, it can make some contribution to the hunting activities of the leopards.
Each member of the hunting team composed of three has its own characteristics and never returns empty-handed.
As the captain, the boss is a hexagonal warrior with double strength and speed. Shi Qiao herself is inferior in strength, has a flexible mind, and is good at adapting to changes.
Cudi is a fast runner. He is a cheetah brick and can be moved wherever needed. He is an auxiliary player when they hunt with the cheetah.
Leopards all like to pounce, and occasionally when they make a mistake and need to chase, cheetahs can come in handy, but most of the time they can still easily catch their prey, just like now.
A group of impala passed through the territory and migrated north. On the way, they were attacked by the leopard of the lord.
After the restless period, his physical strength finally returned to full level. Shi Qiao once again became the main force in hunting and completed the ambush and attack tasks very well.
It can be said that the other two beasts are completely useless.
The little leopard looked at the prey she had caught alone with pride on her face. It felt good that her skills had not fallen behind at all, and she also received praise from the almighty hunter Klein.
While she was being proudly rubbed on the head by the boss, there was another group of onlookers cheering her on.
: Thea, that's right, the best!
: Wu wu wu, my baby has just grown up.
: I didn't expect cutey to be so skilled in hunting. You can't tell just by looking at her appearance.
: Don't judge a leopard by its appearance. They are not only good-looking but also capable.
: Being able to see Thea grow up to be such an outstanding leopard with my own eyes, I really understand Klein's mood. I'm so close to you!
: Sticking to each other in the air!
The death of a prey heralds the end of the rainy season, and the leopards follow in the footsteps of the herbivores and embark on their journey north.
They were accompanied by a camera crew.
Shi Qiao looked at the car behind them and accepted her mission to continue being photographed. Take pictures of her, trying to take as many pictures of her handsome hunting posture as possible.
On the journey to the north, it was difficult to encounter the thick acacia trees in the southern territory, which meant that she and Klein would either sleep in separate trees or sleep together on the ground.
The boss still refused to accept the previous option as before, so Qiao had no choice but to sleep next to him on the ground in the open air.
Shi Qiao had already formed a habit of sleeping next to him and even adjusted her posture before going to bed. After falling asleep, a certain leopard moved Shi Qiao into his arms.
When she sleeps, she automatically rubs herself under the other's paws.
When sleeping during the day and on the road at night, Shi Qiao forgot about the existence of the camera. She just decided to look handsome and unrestrained in front of the camera and forgot about it when she fell asleep.
As a result, the scenes of the little leopard sleeping with its head on the boss's belly were broadcast live in a very shameless manner.