Lions drive away male lions.
Lions are produced in Africa, and it is said that they were introduced to China from the Silk Road during the Sui and Tang Dynasties. The image of the lion has long been a household name in China. There are a pair of stone lions in front of the Zhu door of the ancient princes and nobles, and in front of the glass door of the bank building today, which are magnificent. There is a folk custom of lion dancing. Others compare a rising country or nation to an awakening lion. It can be seen that the lion symbolizes invincible power in people's hearts.
Lions are really imposing, especially lions, whose necks and shoulders are covered with long black-brown manes, and their grayish-brown body hair shines with metallic luster. Angry, thunderous roar, daunting.
For a long time, hyenas, another carnivore on African grasslands, have been compared with lions. The body hair of hyenas is grayish yellow, the mane at the back of the neck is messy and dirty, the voice is hoarse and ugly, and the image is obscene and ugly, which is far from that of lions. Therefore, people subjectively describe hyenas as parasites of lions, and plausibly say that annoying hyenas always sneak behind lions. When the lion catches its prey, the hyena will stand in the distance and wait patiently. As soon as the lion finished eating, he left, and the hyenas swarmed and competed for the remains of the lion. It was not until the 1960s that scientists went deep into the African grasslands to investigate the lifestyle of lions, only to find that the statement that hyenas were parasites of lions was a complete lie and an injustice imposed on hyenas by human beings.
On the contrary, hyenas are hardworking and brave carnivores with the spirit of unity and cooperation, although their appearance and cries are annoying. A South African scholar once observed the foraging activities of 1052 hyenas, and found that 89% hyenas would eat the animals they killed, and only 1 1% hyenas would eat the food abandoned by other wild animals. Hyenas are good at long-distance raids. When they find wildebeest, they will chase it. When one of them catches up with the target, it will jump up and bite a leg of the wildebeest, let the wildebeest kick it black and blue, let the thorns on the ground tear it apart, and then die. It is observed that the success rate of hyenas hunting is as high as 90%. Both giraffes and antelopes have little hope of survival once they are targeted by hyenas.
Although the lion looks daunting, he is lazy by nature. He sleeps in the shade of trees most of the day, rarely hunts by himself, and feeds on the lioness. According to the data provided by an American scholar who has been studying the behavior of lions in African grasslands for a long time, the lion group society is composed of one or two lions, seven or eight females and cubs, and lions are dominant. Among the lions, the male lions rarely do anything other than drive away exotic species to defend their rights and interests. Raising cubs and daily hunting fall on the lioness. Therefore, animal behaviorists named lions "male parasitic society". Only when the lioness has not harvested for several days in a row and the group is in a hunger dilemma will the male lion set out for food. If you happen to meet a group of hyenas hunting at this time, the lion will hide in the grass. When the hyena gets it, it will rush over and roar angrily. With their strong bodies and sharp claws, they will drive away hyenas and catch their hard-won prey. If he encounters animal carcasses or leftovers from other wild animals on the way to feed, the lion would rather eat rotten food than spend his energy chasing herbivores on the vast and hot savanna.
It is true that animals can't judge people by their appearances, and the sea water can't be measured.
Fortunately, the wronged hyena can't find a court to accuse human beings of framing.
There is a lion house in Yuantongshan Zoo in Kunming, where a group of lions are kept. Respecting their living habits, the members are six lionesses, a dominant black-maned lion and a deputy yellow-maned lion. I have a keen interest in lions, and I often lie on the iron railing outside the Lion Pavilion to observe them.
Indeed, as foreign scholars have said, the lion lives a parasitic life, even in the cage of the zoo, it still shows the parasitic characteristics of getting something for nothing. Every evening, after the employees put the fresh meat into the stone basin, the lionesses rushed to take the meat out of the stone basin, while the black-maned lion stood in the same place and looked at the busy lionesses with big eyes. As if they were trained, the lionesses dragged the meat in front of the black-maned lion and ate it with it. If the lioness forgets to give him meat because of hunger or gluttony, he will growl at the yellow-maned lion, and the yellow-maned lion will run over and interfere like a gendarme, forcing the lioness to carry the meat to the position where the black-maned lion stands.
More than a year later, three of the six lionesses gave birth to cubs, and * * * gave birth to nine cubs, four of which died of illness shortly after birth. Of the five cubs who survived, two were males and three were females, and the gender ratio was basically balanced.
I found that the lion is the most indifferent father among animals living a family life in the world. He never looks at these lovely cubs with loving eyes, let alone cares about their lives. Months have passed, and the first two cubs have been alive and kicking in the grass, but I have never seen a black-maned lion play with them once.
I suggest you read Shen's novel The Lion King.