Shen Shuxi
I would never have believed it if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes. Tigers can guard a group of wild boars like jailers and wander in the forest.
But there is no doubt that tigers and wild boars are filing in from a ridge about four or five hundred meters away from my ant bag. 13 wild boar, large and small, walked in front, 1 tiger pulled up behind. The tiger is about 3 meters long from the beard to the tip of the tail. It has brown body hair, black stripes, white claws and a white belly, as if stepping on a snowy field. 1 meter-long tiger tail is decorated with black ring spots, and there is a very eye-catching "king" pattern on the forehead, which looks majestic. Judging from its stalwart body, dark tiger hair and contrasting patterns, this is a fierce Bengal tiger. Of the 13 wild boars in its care, only 1 is an old pig with a silver mane on its back, and the rest are sows and piglets.
It is not surprising that tigers hunt wild boar. To my shock, these 13 wild boars are guarded by 1 tigers, and they don't seem to be afraid of this disaster at all. On the contrary, the wild boars walked calmly, looking serene and unconcerned.
At this moment, Bonodin, an old hunter lying next to me, whispered to me, "Oh, I saw this tiger and this group of wild boars in Mon Bahners forest six months ago."
It seems that these wild boars have been locked up for a long time, and their hearts are numb. I think they are not afraid, but I immediately have a bigger question: "Why don't these wild boars run away?"
"The tiger won't let them escape." Bonodin answered without thinking.
What is this! The tiger won't let them escape, so they have to listen to the tiger and not escape? They are no match for the fierce Bengal tiger, and they also lack the fearless spirit of unity and resistance, which I understand; But I don't believe they don't even have the courage to run away. Isn't it 1 tiger? They don't have three heads and six arms, and they won't split. 13 wild boar fled like a nest. No matter how fierce the tiger is, it can only catch up with and kill 1 wild boar. Even if this Bengal tiger is extremely athletic and can catch up with and bite two wild boars at most, there is still 165438.
Perhaps there really is a bold wild boar who really wants to escape, but when his muddy pig eyes glimpse the impenetrable bush, the tiger sees through its attempt. The tiger pounced on him cruelly, broke his cervical vertebra and bit his chest open in front of all wild boars. The bloody massacre killed all the other wild boars. They are frightened, although they also know that most wild boars can escape as long as they make up their minds to escape, but there must be a leading wild boar who dares to take the lead in escaping. Whoever escapes first is equivalent to sending his own life to the jaws of death. All wild boars want other fools to be the first bird and become victims of collective escape. You looked at me, I waited for you, and as a result, I lost the opportunity to escape again and again.
Although this is my imaginary guess, I think this reasoning is logical and reasonable.
At this time, the wild boar and the tiger have reached a wild papaya forest about two or three hundred meters away from the ant bag where Benongding and I are hiding. The big leaves dancing on the trees are covered with ripe Huang Chengcheng papaya, just like the small sun hanging in the Lv Yun, and you can smell a fragrance from afar. Papaya is the favorite food of wild boar. Wild boar drool. Two or three wild boars surrounded a papaya tree, and their mouths were much longer than those of domestic pigs. In a short time, papaya tree, whose wood was soft, was bitten down by several trees, and wild boar greedily grabbed juicy and fleshy papaya. At this time, the tiger has been walking around the wild boar. Tigers are patrolling warily. I think it's because I'm afraid that some wild boars will escape while grabbing food. The tiger strolled to a cow's back rock, which was about 2 meters above the ground, like a stand, no, like a natural watchtower. I think the tiger will definitely jump on the rock. If I were a tiger, I would jump on the rocks, too. Standing on the rock, condescending, eyeing, both deterrent and broaden their horizons. The wild boars have a panoramic view of every move. Even if there is turmoil, a roar of tigers is magnificent, flying in the air and leaping to the top of Mount Tai, it is easy to clean up the mess, which is many times better than patrolling the ground. But I saw that the tiger just glanced at the cow's back-shaped rock and turned to a stream in Qinggou to drink water. The stream from the wild papaya forest to the gully is 200 meters long and it is downhill. I think the tiger must have smoked his throat when he was walking in the hot sun, so he would stay away from the wild boar and drink water.
For these wild boars, this is a golden opportunity to escape! Run, wild boar. The tiger is drinking water by the ditch-clearing stream. No matter who takes the lead to escape, there is no need to worry about being discovered by the tiger and being brutally tortured. Although you don't run as fast as a tiger, you are never as slow as a reptile. Now you start to escape into the jungle. Even if the alert tiger heard the movement immediately, you would have run away when it came up from the ditch panting.
If you don't escape, you are a group of standard stupid pigs!
But the wild boar was very happy to eat papaya and had no intention of running away. I think there is a thick meat pad under Tiger Claw, the tiger walks quietly, and the wild boar is absorbed in eating papaya. They must not have found that the tiger had left them and went to Qinggou. Alas, greedy pigs missed an excellent opportunity to escape smoothly, what a pity!
At this time, a husband pig with a silver mane pursed two fangs rolling out of the upper jaw and held a big papaya. Afraid of being upstaged by his peers, he ran out of the group and wanted to find a quiet place to enjoy himself. It ran to the cow's back-shaped rock and suddenly looked up. It saw the tiger drinking water in the ditch, and his face showed an expression like waking up from a big dream. It opened the pig's mouth and the big papaya fell out of it. Oh, let out a light shout. After hearing the news, all the wild boar stopped eating papaya and looked into the ditch. There is no doubt that they all found the tiger far away from them.
I bet anyone at that time that in a few seconds, the wild boars would disperse happily.
A few seconds passed, and the wild boar did not move; A few seconds later, the wild boars turned from under the grate ditch and stared at the papaya on the ground.
If you lose papaya, it's easy to find it again in the rainforest. If you lose your life, you will never get it back in this life!
The wild boar still focused on papaya and ate it with relish.
I don't believe that all these 13 wild boars were conceived by hungry ghosts. They value several papayas more than their own lives. Obviously, they are not interested in the escape opportunity that befalls them. They are not bound, but their bodies and minds are locked tightly. I'm confused. I don't know what's going on. Isn't this a tiger killing things? No, no, there can't be tigers and bodhisattvas who eat fast and read Buddha. Did the tiger give ecstasy to these wild boars and make them believe that being eaten is a kind of happiness and a shortcut to heaven? No, no, tigers are not that magical. Did these wild boars save the tiger's life under extremely accidental circumstances? Love eliminated hatred and barriers between different species, and made them become bosom friends who walked together? No, no, this absurd plot can only be invented by romantic poets and can't exist in real life. Tigers can't keep these wild boar as pets to play with. Animals are pragmatists. Tigers must regard these wild boars as their own meat warehouses and extract them at any time when needed. I think, no matter how stupid and confused these wild boars are, they should always know that dogs can't change eating shit and tigers can't change eating pigs. If they stay with the tiger, sooner or later, they will inevitably be torn up, eaten into the tiger's stomach, and then turned into a stinking tiger shit and excreted.
Why not run away? Why not run away!
The tiger drank enough water and calmly returned to the wild papaya forest. He let out a majestic growl from the depths of his throat. The wild boar immediately calmed down and lined up in a single file, coming towards me and Bonondin's ant bag. The wild boar group came to a banyan tree more than 0/00 meters away from ant bag/kloc-. The tiger suddenly roared, and the marching wild boar came to an abrupt end. My heart is beating in fear, thinking that the tiger has found our ambush position and is preparing to pull the trigger of the shotgun willy-nilly. My hand was lightly pressed by Bonondine.
"Well, don't worry, there seems to be something on the banyan tree."
I looked at it carefully. Through the cracks in the leaves, I saw a golden spot on a fork seven or eight meters above the ground. Oh, there is a leopard hiding in the tree.
Leopard is used to hiding in the dense leaves of big trees. When prey passes under the trees, it will cover it like a net from the trees unexpectedly. The leopard's heavy body is pressed down from mid-air, even if it is pressed on the bison, it can immediately break the bison's waist. This time, if the tiger didn't remind me in time, one of the wild boar might be unlucky and become a leopard's dinner.
The tiger jumped up from the end of the line and rushed to the front of the banyan tree. Two Tiger Claw are on the waist of the tree, and the colorful tigers hold their heads high in anger.
Leopards are experts at climbing trees, but tigers can't climb trees. One is in the tree, the other is under the tree, abusing and threatening each other.
The wild boar was not afraid because he was almost trapped by a leopard, and he was not worried about his own safety at all. Several heads are eagerly looking at the banyan tree, while more wild boars are casually strolling on the grass, kissing, and digging with their long mouths to eat earthworms and scorpions hidden under the grass roots.
They know that they are safe and that fierce leopards can't help them.
Suddenly, my mind flashed, as if I had solved the mystery of why wild boar didn't escape from the tiger.
This is a group of wild boar with weak viability. In the sinister tropical jungle, they were bullied, attacked by tigers, bitten by leopards, chased by hounds, beaten by shotguns, harassed by jackals, and miserable. Especially after the birth of piglets, there is no guarantee and the mortality rate is extremely high. One day, they were trapped in a cave by a group of hungry wolves, and there was no way to escape, and they were about to be slaughtered. At a critical juncture, the Bengal tiger jumped out of the Woods and killed a wolf. When the wolf saw the tigers, they were scared out of their wits and ran away. Tigers have different habits from wolves. Wolves are eager to kill all their prey. When tigers have something to eat, they are no longer interested in chasing other prey Of course, the tiger didn't want to give up the fat in his mouth, so he used the cave as a pigsty and locked up the wild boar. In this way, these wild boar became the captive of this Bengal tiger.
Under the banyan tree, the leopard is no match for the Bengal tiger after all. It bluffed a few times, retreated along the trunk, retreated to the other end of the banyan tree, jumped down from the tree, got into the tall grass and ran away.
The wild boars lined up again and continued to walk towards the ant bag.
My mind still stays on the question of why wild boar doesn't want to escape from tiger.
I think, at first, wild boars felt that their lives were in danger under the bloody rule of tigers, and they were scared all day long. But a few days later, they found that being a tiger's captive had unexpected benefits. In the past, no matter day or night, whether foraging or sleeping, we should be alert to the attack and capture of large carnivores and hunters; Now, with tigers around, no other wild animals dare to get close to them, and their lives have become calm. Of course they know that tigers are autocratic tyrants and butchers who kill pigs without blinking an eye; But instead of being used as food by all carnivores, including people, it is better to be the tiger's fixed food. Although the tiger's appetite is amazing, it only has one mouth and one stomach, no matter how big it is. They soon found that the death rate of wild boar decreased obviously when they stayed with tigers. In the past, they met leopards today and jackals tomorrow, and lost a partner in two or three days on average. Now they are slaughtered once every ten days. All animal behaviors revolve around such a proposition: protecting species and groups. Being a captive of tigers is beneficial to the survival of the population, and they certainly don't want to escape. ...
Alas, pig, pig.
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