The large area of forests in the Taihang Mountains provides habitat for many wild animals, not only wild boars, wolves, foxes, roe deer, sika deer and other wild animals, but the most famous is the North China leopard, and the Taihang Mountains are also named because of "leopards".
Since there are no tigers in the Taihang Mountains, the North China Leopard naturally carries the banner of the Beast King of the Taihang Mountains and suppresses many herbivorous (omnivorous) animals, which plays a role in inhibiting the development of the population and maintaining the ecological balance.
01 tracked the boar all the way, the wild boar ran it also ran, the wild boar stopped it stopped
The North China leopard was wandering in the mountains, and suddenly a male wild boar appeared in front of it. In other words, leopards generally only catch small wild boars or female wild boars, because male wild boars are not easy to control. But this time, the North China leopard targeted the male wild boar, and it seemed that it did not take the boar seriously at all.
When leopards prey, they often use sneak attacks. Patiently lurking, so that it is not easy to be found by the prey, it is not easy to cause a noise, and when it is close to the prey, it will be caught at the speed characteristic of the leopard. Also, leopards run very fast, up to 80 km / h, but can not run for a long time.
This time, the North China Leopard did not use the trick of sneak attack, but blatantly went after the wild boar. The wild boar runs, it also runs, the wild boar stops, it stops, anyway, it keeps running with the wild boar. Maybe it is afraid of the fangs of the boar, if it is a hard battle, it may not be easy to defeat, so it did not dare to get close and played a "war of attrition".
02 The leopard stepped into the air and fell off a cliff, his face scratched by stones
Although the North China leopard is very agile and agile, when the wild boar suddenly increased its speed to escape, it also immediately accelerated, accidentally stepped into the air, fell off the cliff, rolled several heels along the way, hit the face on the stone, and was cut out of several holes by the stone.
For tigers and leopards, it is also necessary to beware of injury if they are brave and fierce, and being seriously injured is basically equivalent to losing your life, because it is basically difficult to hunt after injury, and you only have to wait for death.
Fortunately, the leopard was only slightly injured and could heal itself on its own. These days, it can't go out to hunt, so it has to climb to a tree, stick out its tongue and keep licking the wound on its face.
The leopard's tongue is not simple, not only can lick some impurities from the wound, but also lick off the bruises. More importantly, the saliva on the tongue can also be sterilized and sterilized, so that the wound can heal faster.
03 The fox came to steal the leopard's prey, the leopard chased from the ground to the tree, the fox did not catch it, and fell from the tree himself
The leopard is not afraid of hunger, and the roe deer caught the other day has not been eaten, and it hangs the rest of the food on the tree to prevent other predators from stealing it. Although these foods are not much, they can still feed it for a week.
However, to the annoyance of the "leopard", a fox came from nowhere, sneaked up to the tree, and dragged its prey down. If you let the wolves know and run to grab food, then you don't starve to death!
The leopard was so angry that it roared in anger and flew into the air. Where did the fox know that the leopard came to this move, quickly dodged away, but when the leopard landed on the ground, it pounced on the air, the leopard roared angrily for the second time, and it looked like it was about to be caught, which knew that the fox was very cunning, drilled back, and slipped away from the leopard.
The fox was also very scared at this time, after all, it was the king of the Taihang Mountains, and he quickly slipped into a big tree. The leopard did not want to let go of the fox, and followed up, frightening the fox into running up to the treetops.
The leopard was deceived and continued to chase, resulting in a "click" sound, where the branches could withstand the leopard's weight of 100 pounds, suddenly disconnected from the middle. The leopard "pounced" and fell on the grass, but thanks to the leaves on the ground, the leopard picked up a life. It was really a leak in the house that happened to rain overnight!
04 The leopard began to chase and beat again, forcing the fox to the creek, only to slip into the water and drink several sips of water
The fox quickly took the opportunity to slip away, and the leopard got up, shook the mud on his body, and began to chase and beat him again, forcing the fox to a small stream, and the leopard was going to block the fox on the road.
The fox can also swim, but still looks left and right, and does not want to escape from the water, because it knows that in the water, it is difficult to escape the leopard, but the retreat has been blocked by the leopard.
Of course, the fox was not willing, and began to rush left and right, wanting to break through, but the leopard came to block the left and right, that is, to prevent the fox from escaping here! The fox used his physical flexibility to drill around, but the result was not as desired, and he was almost caught by the leopard several times.
The fox tried to sneak past the water's edge, and the leopard flew directly over and pounced on the water's edge, but the result was too strong, and the stones in the water were very slippery, and the leopard slid into the water, fluttered several times, and even drank several sips of water. By the time the leopard swam ashore, the fox was gone.
05 The leopard came to the fox's cave entrance and waited for the "fox", the fox smelled the leopard's smell and fled from the other cave entrance
However, the leopard was not afraid, and it smelled the fox's cheeky smell. Along the way along the smell, the leopard actually found the fox's cave, which made the leopard happy, it sat at the mouth of the cave to wait for the "fox", as long as the fox appeared, it came to seal its throat.
The leopard lay on its stomach at the mouth of the cave, staring at the mouth of the cave with its eyes fixed on it, waiting for the fox to come out of the cave. Maybe the fox was a little hungry, and in less than an hour, the fox was ready to come out of the hole to forage for food, but this guy had always been very cautious, and when he came to the mouth of the cave, he smelled the leopard and immediately retracted his head.
The leopard patiently lay down next to the hole and waited for the fox to appear, but never saw the fox appear.
In fact, the cunning rabbit three caves, the fox is more cunning than the rabbit, the fox's nest generally has 2-5 exits, even if these exits are blocked, it can also dig a new exit. So the fox knew that the leopard was guarding the edge of a hole, so it drilled out of the other hole and fled without a trace.
The leopard waited for a while, no longer patient, and slipped away. Perhaps the leopard knows very well that its favorite prey is after all a roe deer, a sika deer, a wild boar and other big guys, and there is no need to waste time on this fox with few pounds of meat.
Xuelinggu Nature Lab/Production
References: Journal of Man and Nature, Journal of Friends of Science, Magazine of Science Grand View Garden, China Science Newspaper, Science Times, Nature Exploration, New Discoveries, Intellectual