Chapter 363: The Prairie
The African savannah is a paradise for wildlife and certainly for photography enthusiasts from all over the world. It's a poacher's paradise.
Although the propaganda says that there is no killing without buying and selling, how can there be no buying and selling? Men want a tiger skin to brag about their bravery, and women need a fur coat to dress up more noblely.
As everyone knows, these desires will threaten the lives of many wild animals. Humans are actually the most terrifying animals. It is precisely because the brain is more developed that it stands out from the history of evolution and finally rules the earth. Of course, it is also because of the developed brain, so human beings have too many ideas and too many miscellaneous, and in the end they are not as comfortable and happy as wild animals. This may also be the sadness of evolution.
After less than two days of rest in the guest house arranged by Emmatali, all the people of the Yang family regained their vitality. Although women's yearning for the prairie is not as strong as Yang Dezhu's, it is better to go out to play in the wild than to stay in the guest house. In fact, if they are in a more developed place, they would rather go to the mall to shop. But this is Africa, and Emma Tali has made a lot of progress in her turf. However, now it is still a priority to meet the needs of daily life, so the women of the Yang family still don't look down on the things sold here, so they also followed Yang Dezhu to the prairie.
The vehicles here are also mostly second-hand off-road jeeps. This kind of car is more fuel-intensive. But in the case of bad road conditions in Africa, and tribes are crisscrossed, and they may be intercepted and chased at any time, this off-road jeep is indeed the most suitable for this place.
Emmatali had somewhere to mobilize three off-road jeeps. Then she accompanied the Yang family and drove into the prairie.
As far as the eye can see, the sky is high and the earth is wide. Naturally, the mind is much broader. Hot air blew in through the open windows. However, Yang Dezhu's family is relatively special, and they are already able to adjust to internal breathing. In this case, the flow of qi and blood is slow, and the body temperature is also with the external environment, so there is nothing unsuitable for them at will. Speaking of which, Emmatari, the owner of the African land, was so hot at this time that she always shouted to stop and rest.
There is nothing natural in the savannah that hides the sun's scorching rays. So they had to park the three cars together in a triangle and tie a shade net to the roof to rest.
Then Yang Dezhu was driven into the sun, and the women smeared some water mixed with some alcohol on Emmatali's body to cool down.
After resting like this twice, they finally went deep into the prairie for nearly a hundred miles. At this time outside herds of wildebeests, antelopes, zebras. Of course, they are followed by a pack of lions and a family of hyenas. In the distance, the eldest ladies of an African elephant family are also taking a leisurely stroll.
It's the rainy season, and herbivores have abundant food sources and grow vigorously, and the carnivores that feed on them are well fed. Now the only thing that can cause conflict between them is the priority of bathing and cooling down the water source.
Of course, at this time, no animal wants to compete with elephants, not even a pack of more than 20 lions.
Elephants happily bathe in the only nearby puddle, spitting water from each other with their noses. It's their favorite game on a hot day.
Yang Dezhu's family and Emma Tali looked at this natural and harmonious picture and did not bother. Just watching from afar and feeling the breath of tranquility and nature.
However, after not much effort, the elephant family actually became irritable. The old elephant kept pushing the half-sized baby elephant with its trunk, as if trying to drive it out of the puddle, but the baby elephant was not enough to leave, so he chirped unwillingly.
But the old elephant seemed to have gone mad and knocked the baby out of the puddle in a frenzied manner.
The baby elephant didn't know what was the matter, and was so anxious that it spun around the edge of the puddle, screaming and refusing to leave.
After another half hour or so, there was an unexpected scene. The dozen or so adult elephants suddenly raised their heads to the sky and screamed, and then fell into the puddle with unwilling eyes and died. Their massive bodies drain almost all of the water out of the puddle. The water flows onto the parched earth around it, seeps into the earth in a few moments, or is dried by the scorching sun.
The remains of elephants were left in the puddles. The other animals wanted to wait for the elephant to go before coming to the river, but something seemed wrong with the elephant lying in a puddle. However, with their intelligence, they obviously can't figure out what's going on. However, as long as the elephants do not leave, they will not dare to approach easily.
In addition to these unknown animals at the scene, there are also Yang Dezhu and them in the distance. They are intelligent creatures, and it is easy to think that there is probably a problem with the water source. However, at this time, they were all dull-faced, covering their mouths, unable to make a sound.
Because just now, these dozen behemoths were still playing happily. But in an instant, they all died. Life is so fragile, it's a behemoth of more than 10,000 pounds, not a chicken or a rabbit.
The baby elephant on the edge of the puddle may have just drunk milk and is not too thirsty. So I didn't drink water, I just played in the water with my mother and aunts. At this time, it saw that its family were sleeping in the puddle, but drove it out. How could it be willing. It tried to get a little closer, a little closer. But none of the adult family members who expelled it reacted. The baby elephant greets them with its nose, and they do not respond in any way.
This baby elephant is about two years old, and many of the elephant's survival skills, it has not learned from its elders, and even it does not know that this scene is life and death. I don't know that the act of pushing the elephant out of the puddle saved its life. It is to preserve a spark for the continuation of the family.
The baby elephant kept touching the carcasses of the adult elephants with its still pink snout, hoping that they would respond to it and stand up to play with it. This scene is poignant to watch. Osmanthus and Ning Caiyun even shed tears, and although the others did not shed tears, they were all pale. Emmatari was even more sad and angry.
By this time, other animals had already smelled death. Hyenas, for example, eat everything and are always persistent in chasing their prey. So as the enemies of elephants, they also know elephants best.
Yang Dezhu saw a group of hyenas start running towards the puddle. He had no choice but to intervene. Although he doesn't like these kinds of guys very much, they are also life. You can't watch them die.