That morning, Cadley asked Hao Jun if he wanted to see the little hippo who had just been born yesterday.

Hao Jun became interested and got into Cadelai's car.

An hour and a half later, they arrived at their destination.

Hao Jun looked around and saw that this was a big family of more than a hundred hippos, including more than three meters long and weighing nearly two tons. It was really impressive.

Cardlai pointed and asked Hao Jun to pay attention to the little hippo who was lying on his mother's back. He was just born yesterday.

It is said to be a little hippo, but for its age, hippos are forty or fifty kilograms when they are born, but unlike giant panda cubs that can be kept in the palm of their hands.

Hippo's skin will cause dryness and cracking when leaving the water for a long time, so they stay lazily in the water most of the day, exposing their ears, eyes and nostrils to the water surface, which can breathe normally and cause danger in time. They can also rely on the help of water to regulate body temperature, prevent skin from drying and cracking, and support the huge body. Even foraging, mating, giving birth, and breastfeeding are used to doing it in the water.

Interestingly, hippos can command their muscles to close their ears and nostrils during diving, and each diving can last up to 10 minutes.

Kadelai and the two staff members had to go to other places for inspection. Hao Jun felt that he had been watching for an hour, so he might as well follow the car to go to other places, so as to avoid Kadelai coming back to pick him up.

After walking about five kilometers, they saw a funny scene. Three lions were attacking a hippo, but because of the huge size of the hippo, they looked like a kitten hanging on a human body. Facing the hippo's wide back, they opened their mouths wide like a kitten gnawing a basketball, and they couldn't bite it at all.

But hippos slowly walked forward as if they did not exist. As long as the lions did not make any moves to attack the little hippo in front, they continued to take steps in all directions. As long as one of the three lions wanted to attack the little hippo in front, they immediately charged forward.

Although it is very difficult for hippos to survive twenty kilometers, the short distance, the tank-like impact force, coupled with huge fangs, open the largest mouth on the ground at a 9o-degree angle, and the shock is absolutely stunning!

After repeated twice, the lion who wanted to attack the little hippo had to return and continue to bite the hippo's tough back which was as thick as five centimeters. It may have been completely figured out that if you want to eat the little one, you must first put down the old one.

However, the ending of the matter was obvious. The three lions could only slide down the hippo's back, and he watched the hippo leave leisurely without wishing.

Cadre smiled and said, "The three lions are too young and inexperienced, and they seem to be very hungry, otherwise they wouldn't be stupid enough to eat hippos. With their teeth, there is no precedent for gnawing through the hippo's back and thick skin on both sides. Besides, the size is too different, unless a large group of lions work together to arch the hippo and mouth towards its relatively soft abdomen. But such a precedent is just an exception. It is almost impossible to expect the lions to work together like people tug of war, and there must be a terrain that is very beneficial to them."

Hao Jun looked around and said, "Is this the one who brought the child out to practice?"

Although Cardley did not understand what "training" means, but when he saw Hao Jun's actions, he expected that it would be impossible to be another question, so he replied: "It should be, otherwise it would be impossible to go so far away from the river bank. It is obvious that he is going to the tributary there. The mother and son are from the same tribe just now, and it seems that they just left this morning."

Crocodiles often appear around the hippos.

Of course, crocodiles usually do not face hippos, because crocodiles commonly use the method to drag their prey into the water and drown them, but hippos can water!

Another method of crocodile is to bite the prey and rotate its body in the water to unscrew the prey's flesh. But it is difficult for them to bite through the hippo's skin, but the hippo's big teeth can pose a threat to them.

Therefore, the crocodiles have only one purpose to wander around the hippo group: find opportunities to hunt small hippos!

This is one of the reasons why the female hippos lead the little hippo to leave the larger target hippo population.

Another reason is that the male hippo is relatively irritable, especially when you want to do something with the female hippo, the female hippo with a baby will naturally refuse. The male hippo often takes his anger on the young hippo, and it is not uncommon to kill the young hippo.

If the hippopotamus mother and son or mother and daughter are separated for a short time, they may only stay outside for two months. If the hippopotamus has the basic ability to escape the sudden hunting of male hippopotamus, they will return to the team. If the hippopotamus feels that the temporary habitat they are looking for outside is safe, or there are persistent male hippopotamus in the ethnic group, they will stay outside for a few more months, and the longest has reached one and a half years.

But generally speaking, after being out of the group, they still have a domain awareness. If they go too far, they are afraid that it will be difficult to track the group after they move, and they cannot obtain protection from the group when encountering greater dangers. Therefore, the distance between them and the group is usually not more than thirty kilometers.

However, there are very few people who can encounter great dangers such as hippos, otherwise the female hippo would not dare to take her cubs out alone.

There are no other hippo groups within 30 kilometers around this area, so Kadelai, who is familiar with the situation, said with certainty that this came from the group five kilometers away.

But Cadre suddenly remembered something again. The tributary where the hippos and her son went to seemed to have a crocodile entered a month ago, so there would be no conflict, right? The little hippo is a delicious food that can make the crocodile salivate! The female hippo cannot be on high alert for 24 hours. If you are not careful, you may lose your baby.

When Hao Jun heard about the baby, he thought it was a bit funny. It was a baby of nearly 100 kilograms!

Cadre thought for a while and there was really no other water source around that would make the female hippo feel at ease. Even if Cadre thought it was safer and wanted to guide them, the female hippo might not listen to advice. If you happen to encounter danger after you go, you will remember the hatred on Cadre. Hippos can live for forty or fifty years, and it will not feel good that enemies often meet in the future.

Moreover, according to the relevant regulations and conventional rules of the protected area, you cannot interfere too much with the natural behavior of wild animals unless it will cause ecological imbalance, or is a key protected animal, or some animals mixed with personal emotions that staff particularly like.

Needless to say, the animals that are key protected are rampant. In the era of rampant poaching, there were two or three soldiers with live ammunition around each white rhino. Anyone who intends to approach the white rhino and is judged to be a illegitimate plan, whether it is a human or a beast, will be killed directly!

Speaking of animals mixed with personal emotions, for Cadelai, pushing those elephants, Cadelai gave almost all the elephants in the patrol area!

Once when he went out alone, in order not to let the poaching ivory that happened by chance escape, he kept tracking for a day and night without sleeping when the communication equipment was damaged and unable to contact the support! Fortunately, he met a tourist and borrowed his mobile phone to contact Balatu and finally stopped the three poachers.

If the victim was not an elephant, he would probably not have tried so hard, because once the poacher found him chasing him, he was afraid that his life would be gone.

Hippos are not animals that are protected by key protection, nor are they animals with personal emotions present, and it is even more impossible to cause ecological imbalance. Therefore, Cadelai decided to respect the laws of nature and not interfere with the whereabouts of hippos and mothers.

However, the cute appearance of the hippo baby prompted them to go around the tributary when they returned to the camp at noon, otherwise they would feel uneasy.
Chapter completed!