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Five Brothers
Cheetah Brothers Hunting Wildbeast
Cheetahs are solitary animals, each with their own territory. Generally, young cheetahs who have just left their mother will form a group to help eachother. The alliance of these five brothers occupied a large territory in Masai Mara this year.
They patroled their territory every day, stop and go, and always attracted everyone's attention.
The tree is the main location for marking their territory, they smelled it to see if there were intruders.
Then mark their own sovereignty.
Mark their territory!
One afternoon, after a comfortable nap, they came out for food. Same stop and go, but their eyes were murderous.
The prey were familiar with this kind of look, and they watched their move with vigilance.
For the five brothers, cheetah's favorite thomson gazelle was obviously not enough for them. These wildebeests were their dish. The wildebeests also knew that, so they were constantly avoiding them. The five brothers had been very acquainted in hunting. The two were approaching in the front, another two were secretly swept from the side under the cover of long grass, and one has quietly lurked behind us. A big battle was about to begin.
The cheetahs in the front started first, the wildebeest ran wildly, but they didn't know where the ambush was. They could only run with luck. This time, bad luck, ran in the direction of the ambushing cheetahs. The cheetahs would not waste this opportunity. In the blink of an eye, they caught this one. The wildebeest would have no way to escape and had to turn back to face. Two cheetahs surrounded it, the older brother leaped from the front and the younger brother from behind.
The wildebeest was much larger than the cheetahs. His sharp horns were thrilling also. It lowered its head to the older brother, who flexibly avoided and jumped to the back of the wildebeest.
The younger brother also jumped from the back and tried to take down the wildebeest with his brother.
The brothers bit the back of the wildebeest and use their weight to try to take it down. But this wildebeest was very strong, struggled from painfull against the brothers.
After turning several laps, the wildebeest gradually failed to support its body and almost fell down.
The older brother hugged the neck of the wildebeest and tried to get a bite on it's neck. Almost succeed...
However, the perseverant wildebeest suddenly jumped up and got gid of the brother's claws. The older brother had to give up the neck and jumped on to the back again.
The younger brother was swung down from the back. He looked for an opportunity to attack the wildbeest's neck.
The wildbeest was more and more brave againsting the enemy.
Has not bitten into the neck of the wildbeest, the cheetah brothers gradually showed signs of fatigue.
The older brother can only barely bit the back behind the wildebeest.
At the last moment, the wildbeest leaped violently, slammed the cheetah brothers. The endurance made it defeated.
The wildebeest that escaped from the death ran to it's herd with pain.
Fortunately, there was another battlefield here, the other three brothers had easily taken down a wildebeest. Cheetahs are very alert when eating. They always look up from time to time to see the situation around. Such a large clumps may have caught the attention of lions, leopards or hyenas. If they came over, the brothers would take a empty baskets.
It seems that there was some movement, they all stoped eating and looked to the right. There was indeed a hyena following bloody smell, walked behind us. But because of the long grass, the hyena did not find them, and wandered for a while and left, fortunately.
Look at their ugly face while eating.
The hyena wandered for about half an hour, finally walked back. The brothers had to face it now.
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