Chapter 554: The Fierce Baboon
After crossing the western course of the Niger River from Markala in the early morning, the Guru galloped south-east, through Burkina Faso, Benin, and before evening, arrived at Aguala, western Nigeria. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
It is a small city located five kilometres upstream of the Kainji Reservoir, a reservoir in the middle and lower reaches of Lake Niger, and five kilometres west of it, a road bridge spans the 400-metre-wide Niger River.
The Real Madrid team has a fixed supply point in the small city of Aguala, so although it is still early, the Grandmaster has settled in this small town.
After maintaining the car, replenishing supplies, and completing this set, while it was still dark, the grandmaster pulled Fang Zhengying to the edge of the Kainji Reservoir again, and admired this large artificial reservoir with a length of 136 kilometers and a width of 24 kilometers at close range.
The next morning, we crossed the Niger River from the road bridge and continued east.
If you choose the western route, cross the Niger River and head southeast to Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon.
However, the route they chose to take was the northern route, so after crossing the Niger River, they headed east, bypassing the Jos plateau, passing through the Yankari National Park, grazing the northern edge of the Adamawa Mountains, running out of Nigeria, through the narrow territory of northern Cameroon, into Chad, and camping in Montdouan, an important town in southern Chad, 1,700 kilometers away from Aguara.
There were basically prairies along the way, which made the grandmaster drive extremely comfortably, and Fang Zhengying couldn't help but drive for more than three hours.
From Mundu to the west, through the northern part of the Central African Republic, into South Sudan, stopping at Wau, South Sudan, then turning south from Wau, crossing the White Nile in Cuba, the capital of South Sudan, into Uganda, and arriving at accommodation in Kampala, the capital of Uganda, in the evening of March 23.
Although Wau is only 1,000 kilometers away from Kampala in a straight line, after entering the territory of Uganda, the terrain begins to become higher, and the waterways here are dense, so many times you have to honestly follow the road, and a more important reason is that since entering the territory of Uganda, the rain in the sky has basically not stopped, so after running down more than 1,000 kilometers, it is almost evening.
In addition, Fang Zhengying wanted to see Lake Victoria up close, so the Grandmaster decided to live in Kampala.
Kampala is located in the northern part of Lake Victoria, and what makes the grandmaster and Fang Zhengying a little complained is that although the city is very beautiful, the sense of direction of the streets is really bad, and the whole city can hardly find a street that is due east and west or due south and north.
Grandmaster and Fang Zhengying stayed at Kampala's famous lakeside hotel, Bluwells Hotel, which is located on the lakeside, and from the second floor of the hotel, you can enjoy the world's second largest freshwater lake 100 meters ahead.
The freshwater lake, named after the Queen of England, is the second largest freshwater lake in the world after Lake Superior in North America and the ninth largest lake in Africa in terms of water storage.
After dinner, the grandmaster and Fang Zhengying walked out of the hotel hand in hand. The hotel has its own marina on the lake, where small yachts and smaller high-speed motorboats are moored.
On the pier, you can see wild hippos playing in the lake not far away, and those motionless black spots in the distance are even more terrifying crocodiles.
Those crocodiles seemed to be full, and they lay motionless in the water one by one, but that head made Fang Zhengying a little afraid to get on the boat.
The grandmaster and the others sat on the motorboat, and the black brother who drove the boat told Fang Zhengying in Chinese not to be afraid, those crocodiles on the shore, although they were nominally wild crocodiles, were actually artificially fed.
These crocodiles are usually well-fed and will not attack tourists at all, so there is no need to be afraid of those cold-blooded big guys.
Once on the motorboat, the motorboat immediately rushed on the lake at a speed of more than 100, and this high-speed motorboat could run up to more than 150 at the fastest, faster than most cars on land.
I took a motorboat around the lake and even went to the mouth of Jinjia to take a look.
There is only one river flowing out of Lake Victoria, and this river is called the Victoria Nile, which is a section of the upper Nile and the main stream of the White Nile.
At the lake, Grandmaster and Fang Zhengying also saw rhinos and elephants drinking and eating freely on the shore, as well as many local wild animals.
According to the black brother who drove the boat, the animals that live around Lake Victoria come to the lake every evening to drink, and it is not uncommon to see lions, cheetahs, hunting dogs, and other top predators of the African savannah drinking with herbivores such as antelopes, wildebeests, bison, and zebras.
At this moment, both the predator and the preyed will be safe, which is a very difficult sight.
Fang Zhengying also photographed a group of antelopes and a group of lions drinking together, less than 20 meters apart, and several lion cubs even ran to the antelope's side to frolic ......
It was a very harmonious scene, and it was hard to imagine that antelope and lion could coexist peacefully with each other if you hadn't seen it with your own eyes.
Of course, the lake was not all harmonious, and the Grandmaster and Fang Zhengying saw another lion group clashing with the local baboon herd.
As a result, what made the grandmaster and Fang Zhengying's jaws almost drop in shock was that the lions that were facing no group on the prairie were actually beaten by a large group of baboons.
Even the black brother who drove the boat was made laugh by the scene of the baboon beating the lions.
"It's a sight like this all the time. Brother Hei slowed down the speed of the boat and shook his head and said.
"The most powerful animals here are not lions, nor hyenas, nor leopards, but this herd of baboons. This large herd of baboons lives in the hilly area of the lakeshore between Kampala and Jinja, and there are quite a few of them, about 200 of them, and this area can be said to belong to this group of baboons. ”
Brother Hei pointed to the large hilly area on the shore and continued: "On the African continent, in addition to humans, the number one single combat strength is the elephant, followed by the rhinoceros and hippos, these big guys don't even dare to provoke the lions. The single combat effectiveness of African baboons is not very high, and in terms of individual combat effectiveness, baboons are not even as good as hyenas. But don't forget, baboons are social animals, and the number of a colony is not small, once these guys come out of the nest, even a lion pack of more than a dozen lions will have to retreat in front of these baboons. ”
As soon as Brother Hei said this, the Grandmaster and Fang Zhengying immediately understood. The individual combat effectiveness of the African baboon is indeed not very strong, but if it is combined, it is almost invincible in the African savannah.
The scene in front of me is enough to illustrate this point. The lion group was composed of twelve or thirteen lions, and as a result, they were violently beaten by hundreds of baboons with their heads and faces, and they were directly beaten by the head of the rats.
Just like Africa's super predator, the African marching ant colony, the marching ants alone are very weak, but once thousands of marching ants unite to form an ant colony, then any animal in this world is scum in front of the marching ant army!
Lions, tigers, bears, crocodiles, and other predators at the top of the food chain are apex predators at best, and once the little marching ants form an ant colony, then these little ones immediately become the top super predators on the planet!
In the same way, the lion is in front of the herd of baboons, and the fault is that they don't want to die, otherwise the group of African baboons will teach the lion group how to make lions every minute......