Chapter 3: Successful Hunting (Collect)
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When the sun fell on the ground after a long absence, the rain that had accumulated overnight on the canopy and branches began to evaporate, rising and rising in a mist of water.
After the rain, the smell of earth mixed with green leaves wafts away, and the air is exceptionally fresh.
Far from modernization and less artificial pollution, it has to be said that this is a real pure land.
What wakes you up every day is no longer the stress of going to school and going to work, but the crisp chirping of macaws and the howling of howling monkeys through the jungle.
Gu Zheng and the second sister and third brother were taken back to the tree by their mother, and the two little ones bit and played with each other under the tree, after all, there is nothing to do here except this, so you can't go to school with your schoolbag on your back.
The child is still young.
Perhaps the happiest time in the lives of many wild cats is when they are young, when they are young, they have their brothers by their side to play around, and their mothers to rely on.
For the common jaguar, there are many stages of growth from juvenile to adulthood.
When the juvenile stage is born, the mother animal needs to nurse, and the process time is about three or five months, and then you can stop the animal milk and eat the prey brought back by the mother beast.
When she is one year old, the mother animal will take the baby jaguar to practice her hunting skills, and this time will basically last for about a year.
By the time they are two years old, the jaguar already has a certain ability to hunt.
During this time, howler monkeys, lynxes, long-nosed raccoons and even capybaras are all on its recipes.
The adult stage of the jaguar is about three years old, so once the jaguar is about to reach adulthood, it will be expelled by the mother animal even earlier.
But because of this, most cats died during this period, and the jaguar was no exception.
Despite being the dominant predator in South America and the Amazon rainforest basin, most jaguars are far from their true peak by the age of three.
The jaguar that can really be called the top predator overlord of South America is in the prime of life at the age of five.
At that time, large carnivores such as caimans, green anacondas, red-tailed anaconders, and spectacled bears were all part of its plate.
But these are only known species.
There are too many unknown creatures in the deepest depths of the remote Amazon rainforest.
The genes flowing in his veins made Gu Zheng always jealous of the deepest part of the rainforest.
He was standing under the tree, and now Gu Zheng, who was only a month old, was not as big as an ordinary domestic cat.
But as a jaguar with an IQ, Gu Zheng feels that training should start from a doll.
He stretched out his paws to learn the posture of Bao Ma climbing the tree before, with his front paws hard and his hind legs kicking hard.
"Boom."
A muffled sound attracted the second and third brothers who were playing and rolling, and they were a little confused and didn't know what this unusual companion was doing.
Why hit your head against a tree?
However, curiosity is the nature of felines, and seeing Gu Zheng's strange movements, the two little ones followed suit.
"Boom."
"Boom."
The two muffled tears and the two small ones collided with each other, and they turned their heads angrily and grinned at Gu Zheng.
After struggling to no avail, Gu Zheng, who finally tried a few times, had to give up the idea of climbing the tree.
Now he is not this material at all.
But if you don't do anything, the boredom is enough to drive people crazy.
If I've never enjoyed sweetness, then I can persist in suffering.
But the point is that he has human memories.
Not to mention how much the human lifespan exceeds that of the jaguar, just the human food games and all kinds of entertainment programs make him miss it immensely.
People always have to wait until they lose to know how to cherish it.
opened his mouth to roar to vent his dissatisfaction, but the exit was a wah-wah.
Gu Zheng couldn't help it, turned around and crawled to Bao's mother and got into her arms, and sucked the milk with a click.
Turn grief and anger into appetite.
She is also a little helpless about this son's mother, she didn't eat so much when she was a child.
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Time flies, months have passed in the blink of an eye.
Deep in the jungle, a predator the size of a dog-sized dog lurks behind the bushes, its large, round, streamlined body full of explosive force and beauty.
The shiny black fur fit tightly to his body, blending in perfectly with the darkness of the night.
Not far in front of him was a small armadillo.
It looks like a mouse, with scales on the top of the head, back, tail and limbs, and the scales in the middle are connected by muscles and flesh, which can be stretched and contracted, the abdomen is hairy, the toes have sharp claws, and they are good at digging in the soil.
It is clear that this armadillo is also a nocturnal foraging animal, with ants, snakes, and carrion being its main delicacies.
Gu Zheng behind the bushes held his breath, six months was just a stage from just weaning to eating meat for the jaguar.
But as an idealistic and ambitious Gu's jaguar, Gu Zheng is obviously not satisfied with the status quo.
As early as some time ago, when Bao's mother stopped breastfeeding and the three little ones began to eat the prey brought back by Bao's mother, Gu Zheng planned to start hunting by himself.
His last and first hunt was a juvenile cattle, a relatively small boar-like animal.
As Gu Zheng, who has been gifted since he was a child and has human wisdom, there is no suspense... Failed.
Because he doesn't have any skills, it's just one word, reckless.
Gu Zheng, who had learned the lessons of the previous time, decided to attack again under the cover of night this time.
The surrounding area is the territory of Bao Ma, and the smell of the adult jaguar is like the breath of death to the other animals.
Except for a few small animals that forage for food, the rest of the animals have fled the area unless necessary.
So there is not much danger here for Gu Zheng.
At this moment, he was only a dozen meters away from the armadillo that was hunting.
He cautiously approached the cats, whose claws were covered with thick pads of flesh, which served as a protective layer and a silent predator.
Finally, when Gu Zheng was within ten meters of the other party, the small armadillo raised its head and looked around in his direction.
Gu Zheng's movements froze, and he stood motionless.
The armadillo has very poor vision, but its sense of hearing and smell is very sharp.
The small armadillo looked up, and there was a blank look in its mung bean-sized eyes, as if it had listened carefully for a while, and when it saw that there was no movement, it continued to lower its head and began to search for food.
Gu Zheng breathed a sigh of relief, and his green pupils opened completely in the night.
His head was bowed, and his upper body was bowed.
The next moment, Gu Zheng rushed out, but the distance of ten meters was only an instant for the jaguar, even if Gu Zheng had not fully grown up, but the speed was not slow, and the armadillo that had just reacted did not have time to make any movement.
"Click."
With a crisp sound, the magic skill of the top predator of the Americas...... Headshots.
In fact, this small armadillo has only a few catties of meat on its whole body.
But for Gu Zheng, the first successful hunt is obviously of great significance.
In the dark night, the green pupils flashed with human joy, and he returned home with a dead armadillo in his mouth.