32. Animal emotions

Lin Qian and Courage were very curious to burrow into the tree hole, this thing was very novel both Courage and Lin Qian.

Lin Qian took a closer look, and this tree hole was a hollow formed by the entanglement and overlapping of two tree trunks.

As the banyan tree grows thicker, the hollow becomes a larger hollow that provides shelter from the wind and rain for smaller animals.

The tree hole is one and a half meters wide, and their current size can live in it, but a behemoth like the tiger mother can't.

I think that the tiger mother will choose to come here to rest, also because there is a tree hole here.

Lin Qian couldn't help but be a little moved, although the tiger mother was a beast, she took very good care of them, and this kind of gentle care was completely unrequited.

When the tiger grows up, he doesn't care about his parents and brothers, and once he becomes an adult, there are many cases of fathers and sons snatching territory and killing each other.

It's like the ancient emperor's family, competing for the throne, and the six relatives don't recognize it.

The male tiger fights for territory and maintains the glory of the king. It is also not uncommon for a female tiger to grow up and occupy her mother's territory, where survival is very brutal.

But even if she knows that she may face such a cruel situation in the future, the tiger mother will still take care of the tiger cub when she is young, and she will pay hard without asking for anything in return.

Even if the tiger cub wants to occupy its territory in the future and compete with it for survival resources, even if it is destined to turn against each other and fight each other in the end, it will have to grow up.

Now, the tiger mother just wants to raise the tiger cub well.

The longer she gets along with the tiger mother, the more Lin Qian feels, and this pure and primitive emotion between animals is really moving.

And the increasing dependence and closeness of courage made him understand that animals also have real feelings for each other, they just can't speak.

Thinking and sighing, Lin Qian gradually fell asleep in the tree hole.

Courage stretched out his little tongue and licked the back of his brother's head, and then the little tiger slapped his face and squinted at his brother's side.

The setting sun is slanting over the hills, the golden afterglow is scattered in the canopy of the trees, the feast in the forest is about to begin, and the predators are ready to move.

And the tiger mother, who has already enjoyed a full meal, looks at the sunset and is indifferent, tonight, you can rest again.

As for choosing this area to rest, it has an impression of this banyan tree, and in the hot summer, shade is the first choice.

Tonight the moon was bright and the stars were sparse, but suddenly it began to rain, and the pouring rain grew stronger, and became more and more turbulent as the night deepened.

The tiger mother lies at the mouth of the tree hole, letting the rain fall on her body, accustomed to being indifferent to the wet hair, and has long been accustomed to any sudden situation in nature by surviving in the wild all year round.

Rain, but everyday.

Lin Qian and Courage were already asleep in the hollow of the tree.

As the rain fell, the temperature dropped sharply at night, and the two tiger cubs snuggled up to each other in their sleep.

When he woke up, looking at the rain that was falling, Lin Qian sighed with emotion about the tiger mother's precautions, fortunately there was this tree hole, otherwise he and his courage would be sick if they were drenched in the rain all night.

Naturally, there is no big problem for wild beasts to get caught in the rain, but they are still young now, and their resistance is insufficient, and if they get sick, they may be in danger of death.

For tiger cubs, a small cold and pneumonia can kill them.

Heavy rains overnight brought a strong cooling to the forest.

In the early morning, I didn't see the warm morning sun, the damp mist filled the forest, and the rain was still falling, but it was already a light rain.

Although it was still raining, the tiger mother decided to continue to take the cubs on patrol.

Looking at the misty rain, Lin Qian was not hypocritical, and ran towards the tiger mother, rubbing the tiger mother's slightly wet tiger legs affectionately with her little head.

Courage came up and screamed, it was hungry.

The tiger mother gently licked the two cubs, and after feeding, she let out a low roar and motioned for the children to follow.

As soon as he walked out of the dense forest, Lin Qian heard the sound of surging water roaring in the distance, and the originally noisy bird and insect chirping encountered this sound, but it was a small thing, and it was instantly covered up.

It was the heavy rain last night that caused the flash flood, and the river changed its usual calm and gentleness, and launched a wave of anger, and even the low-lying riverside on both sides of the river was swept into its arms.

When the flash flood came, the water level of the river skyrocketed, and the turbid and yellowish water was extremely turbulent.

The upward waves came one after another, and the riverbed could no longer restrain the violent current, allowing it to hit.

The large trees on the shore hold the land together with their roots, struggling to resist the erosion of the floods, but shrubs and dwarf trees are not so lucky.

The flood uprooted them along with the root soil in the ground, and the wet soil carried away the weak weeds and wild flowers, as well as the snakes, insects, frogs and rats that inhabited them.

A jumble of small saplings, dirt, dead tree trunks, gravel, dead animal carcasses, struggling animals still alive, struggling and shaking on the murky surface of the river.

Some have closed their eyes and gone with the flow, while others let out a short wail of half a sentence, showing their tenacious will to survive. Then he was filled with cold, turbid water, and sank to the bottom of the water in the blink of an eye.

This is the force of nature, irresistible.

The flood is rampant and domineering, arrogant left and right, no one can stop it, and whoever is caught up in it will only end up struggling, suffocating, drifting, and rotting.

Courage stood on the bank of this murderous river, looking at the river in a daze, with a trace of instinctive fear in his eyes, and then confusion and curiosity.

The young king of the forest, seeing the power of nature for the first time, could not understand where this innate sense of fear came from.

In the middle of the rushing water, there was an island, which was once a high slope, and the thick tree that had grown on it had fallen sideways in the floodwater.

Standing beside the ruined roots of the tree stood two wild goats, lucky creatures who had found a glimmer of life in the torrent.

However, the temporary island was surrounded in the center of the flood, and this luck was already in jeopardy under the relentless and continuous erosion of the flood.

"Baa...... Baa ......"

The soft cries of the wild goats were full of helplessness, and they could only step on their hooves, constantly probing and wandering at the edge of the flood.

The tiger mother glanced at the prey that was close at hand and far away, and then turned her head and called out to the tiger cubs who were watching the torrent to leave.

Lin Qian saw the scene of the forest flood for the first time, although he was a little surprised, but there was not much surprise and curiosity.

Hearing the call of the tiger mother, he turned his head and arched his courage to lick the mouth of the wild goat.

The little guy couldn't move when he saw what he was eating.

Courage was unaware of his brother's urging, until he heard his mother's call again, he reluctantly withdrew his gaze, and quickly followed the footsteps of his brother and mother with small steps.