59. Undercurrents surge

The Masai Mara savannah is located northeast of Lake Victoria, and the migration of herbivores from the Serengeti to the Masai Mara is roughly 3,000 kilometres through the territory of Tanzania and Kenya.

The Serengeti is across the river from the Masai Mara, and the migration of animals from the Serengeti to the Masai Mara must cross the Mara River.

The African Mara River flows through Kenya and Tanzania in Africa and has a total length of 395 kilometers and a basin area of 13,504 square kilometers, of which 60% is located in Kenya and 40% in Tanzania. The river originates in the rainy mountains of Kenya and never flows even during the dry season. During the rainy season from March to June, the river rises sharply and ends up with more than twice the usual volume.

Yang Wu also headed towards the Masai Mara at this time, he followed the tributaries of the Mara River, and when he reached the meeting point with the main stream, he crossed the river and belonged to the territory of the Masai Mara Prairie.

Just as Yang Wu was going north, an operation against him also began.

Originally, when Yang Wu first appeared to the public, he was noticed by some well-intentioned people, but he quickly broke away from the public's field of vision, and this time he appeared again, and he showed such a high level of wisdom, so the files that had been arranged before were also executed.

Because Yang Wu is indeed very valuable for research, just in terms of his genes, a lion that has obviously evolved again, if the mystery in the middle is solved, it will also be a major progress for human beings.

What is a Capitalist?

Marx once defined the capitalist:

Once there is a proper profit capital, be bold;

If there is a 10% profit, it is guaranteed to be used everywhere;

With a 20% profit, it becomes active;

With a 50% profit, it takes risks;

For the sake of 100% profit, it dares to trample on all human laws;

With a 300% profit, it dares to commit any crime and even risk going to the gallows.

Although this statement is not 100% true, it applies to a large part of capital.

Most of the organizations targeting Yang Wu this time are underground, and they have a lot of poacher teams under their hands.

However, there are also many researchers belonging to the state department who have brought students here, and they are also very interested in Yang Wu, and they have carefully studied the video data about Yang Wu, and deduced that this is an atavistic phenomenon, but the age of this gene needs to be further investigated to determine.

Archaeology now basically believes that lions originated in Africa but developed in Europe, and the oldest of them is called fossil lions.

These archaeologists unanimously believe that the atavistic genes of "Simba" are derived from the cave lion, because in the evolution of lions, only the cave lion is the closest to the manifestation of "Simba".

Cave lions originated from fossil lions, which were widespread in the eastern and southern parts of the continent 500,000 years ago, and the fossil record shows that some of their members began to "move out of Africa" and evolve independently.

The members who entered northeastern Asia evolved into the Yang tiger, while the fossil lions that entered Europe adapted to the mountainous and relatively cold climate and the composition of their prey, and further increased in size, evolving into a new subspecies, the cave lion.

The cave lion is highly adaptable, and between 300,000 and 100,000 years ago, it has been found in the steppes, tundra, deserts and semi-deserts of northern and central Europe. However, it is clear that they are not well adapted to dense forests or deep snowy fields.

Cave lion fossils are distributed as far west as the British Isles in Europe and as far east as Siberia. Their main prey may be the horse, camel, bison and mammoth cubs of the prairie, or perhaps it is the tracking of these highly migratory prey, one of which has crossed the Ice Age Bering land bridge into the unfamiliar North American continent. The wider expanse of the field forced them to evolve long limbs to facilitate faster gallops.

So another miracle appeared - the subspecies of the cougar.

These New World lions were slender and about 25 percent larger than modern African lions, with males weighing up to 235 kilograms on average, but a handful of fossils show that the largest was almost as large as the largest cave lion. Their canines are also very well developed, often more than 10 centimeters in length for their upper canines, which are almost not inferior to those of all types of saber-toothed tigers. At the same time, the fossil lions that remained in Africa gradually evolved into the modern African lions.

Compared to today's African lions, cave lions had correspondingly larger body parts, except for a shorter tail.

They are on average 25%-35% larger than the average African lion, and their bodies and limbs are thicker, making them unusually large.

At 3.8 meters long and 1.4 meters tall at the shoulder, the largest male cave lion surpasses the Siberian tiger and the extinct saber-toothed tigers, making it the largest cat ever built (with the exception of human-made ligers).

Their images have appeared in the petroglyphs and carvings of European ancestors during the Stone Age, and these oldest works of human art have also become valuable materials in the hands of scientists.

Based on these, it can be seen that their fur has faint markings, and the male cave lion also has a ring-like mane on his neck, although it is much less pronounced than that of the African lion.

It is generally believed that due to their large bodies and small number of prey, cave lions may not form large groups of ten or twenty African lions, but may live in small groups, in pairs, or even alone.

The underdeveloped mane of the male cave lion as a secondary sexual characteristic may be related to the fact that the social behavior is less frequent than that of the African lion.

The cave lion coexisted with the ancestors of modern humans for a long time, until about 10,000 years ago. As for the reason for their extinction, it is not only that they compete with humans for caves as nests and are hunted in large numbers, but also because the number of large herbivores, which are their staple food, has declined, and the cave lions that have lost their food have also become extinct.

After this, other subspecies of lions lived in the Balkans of southern Europe, and it was not until long after the emergence of human civilization that they finally disappeared.

Speculation is always speculation, and it is still necessary to investigate on the spot, and if there are conditions, they also want to control "Simba" and study it carefully and meticulously.

Regardless of whether it is a poacher or a researcher, it is all about approaching Yang Wu and subduing him, which may be understandable from the perspective of humans, but for a lion with a human soul, it is a matter of life and death!

Yang Wu didn't know that he was already famous all over the world, but he still had the thoughts of his previous life, and he knew how difficult it was to be famous in the world, he didn't think that he would reach the top after only two appearances?!

He didn't realize that what he had exposed was too evil in this world, and that humans had to want to study it, because they never wanted to put something uncontrollable under their noses, unless it was studied thoroughly or it was a dead thing!!