So the bigger the alliance, the better. The most famous Super Lion League is Sabison's Bad Boy and Defender. Bad boy is the Six Lions League, which is famous for killing, and relies on the strength of lions to kill other lions many times. "Defender" is a four-lion alliance, and its biggest feature is that it is very close to each other. They ended the arrogance of bad boys in Sabison, where they ruled for seven and a half years.
So, how did the lion come into being? Why are they so United?
The lion alliance originated from the formation of the * * * lion alliance, and began with the * * * lion alliance system.
The lioness is a very gregarious animal, but in the last few weeks of labor, she will hide herself and find a dense bush beside the hill or river bed to give birth. Every lioness has her favorite birthing hole, which is usually where she was born. After giving birth, the lioness will live alone with her cubs for several weeks.
During this period, the lioness spends most of her time nursing her cubs in the nest and only occasionally leaves when catching prey. The gregarious lioness foraged alone at the most difficult moment of her life. This is the most vulnerable period of cubs, and females are unwilling to take any risks, so they don't even let their sisters touch their cubs.
Females in the same group are often in estrus at the same time, so they are pregnant and give birth one after another, and their cubs are about the same size. When the cubs can walk around, about four to six weeks old, the lioness will take them to join the lions. All females in the same lion group put their cubs together and raise them together, just like human kindergartens. Let's call it "Young Lion Garden".
From then on, until the cubs are one and a half years old, the cubs park will assume the responsibility of raising them.
The females in the cubs park are the most gregarious. They were inseparable, and the place where the cubs park was located became the social center of the lions. Lions without cubs move more freely, but they often take advantage of the cubs park to return to their companions. The male lion in charge will also go to the lion cub park to reunite with his wife and children.
When the lioness is ready to give birth again, the cubs park will be dissolved, and the cubs will be over one and a half years old. In this year and a half, this litter of cubs drank milk together in the first half of the year, played together in the second year, learned survival skills from their mothers and aunts, and finally graduated at this moment.
If the cubs are lucky enough, their father is still in power, and they can stay with the lion, continue to eat and study for more than a year. But if their father's rule has been overthrown by foreign lions, they will only be driven away. Little lions will compete with their cubs for food when they stay among the lions, and their biological parents will coordinate the contradiction between the two cubs, but the stepfather just wants to leave the food to his own flesh and blood.
At this time, the young lions who graduated from the same lion cub park will form a team and leave the born lions together. The Lion League was thus formed, and they were destined to live a wandering life for several years. If they are strong and lucky enough, they can join other lions and keep their children.
The number of lion leagues depends on the number of young lions that grow into adults in the same lion cub park. There are a large number of females in the big lion group, and at the same time, a large number of cubs are born, forming a large lion cub garden. Among them, many lions may live to adulthood, and this is how the Super Lions League with more than four heads is formed. In a more extreme example, scientists also recorded the Nine Lions Alliance.
The secret of the * * * co-education system shows that the formation of the big lion alliance depends on the * * * co-education system of lions. So, how do females of the same lion group adjust their reproductive clocks to synchronization?
The facts here are quite terrible. In fact, it is the young killing behavior of the lion that sets the reproductive clock of the lioness to synchronization.
During the year and a half when the cubs grow up, the females will not be in estrus, so the cubs are like a mobile contraceptive device. And if the cubs die, the lioness can return to estrus within weeks to months.
So when there is a big exchange of blood between lions, the new lion will definitely kill all the cubs of the previous male lion, so that the female lion can enter estrus as soon as possible. For male lions, they must hurry to give birth to the next generation, so that they can have enough time to protect their cubs.
Lions have been fighting for mating rights all their lives, and every time the lion alliance will eventually be defeated by the young and strong generation. No one can always be a local. Lions can stay among lions for a short time, with an average of only two years and two months in Serengeti and three years and two months in Etosha Park. They won't waste their precious time as stepfathers.
Therefore, when foreign lions occupy the pride, they will remove all the cubs, so that the female reproductive clock will all return to the starting point. The lioness became pregnant in a short time and gave birth to a new baby almost at the same time. Once again, they gathered the cubs together to raise them and set up a new lion cub garden.
Synchronous production and * * * co-education make the lion cub park huge. The bigger the lion cub park, the more companions there are. When they graduate from the lion cub park together, they can form a bigger lion alliance. The bigger the alliance, the greater the chance of occupying other lions, and the children of other lions can be wiped out in one fell swoop.
Therefore, it is the behavior characteristics of the male lion and the female lion that promote the formation of the Super Lions League, which contains parents' love and expectation for their sons. In this way, when the cubs grow up, they will form a powerful attack team to grab food, territory and wives.
Super League are all lions born in the same lion group as their real brothers. They formed a gang from childhood and stayed together for life. They are either brothers, half brothers, half brothers, cousins or nephews.
However, not all lions are close relatives. If the number of cubs born by a lion group in this year is small or basically female, there may be a situation where only one lion can't find a partner when he grows up to adulthood. This is the case with Simba in the movie The Lion King.
In the movie, Simba finally regained the throne on his own, but this is just a movie after all. In reality, lonely lions are doomed to be unable to enter any lions, and destined to wander for many years. At this time, the lion who is alone will join hands with two or three other lions who have no relatives or reasons, and become sworn brothers to capture the lion together.
This kind of partnership is quite common, about two-thirds of the two-lion alliance and half of the three-lion alliance are unrelated.
Since unrelated lions can form an alliance, the scale of the lion alliance can be infinitely expanded. Why is the Six-Seven Lions Alliance so rare? Why don't the lions form an alliance of dozens and take all the females in the national park?
On the contrary, genetic analysis shows that more than four major leagues are almost relatives. In other words, lions who are not related by blood can usually only form a two-lion or three-lion alliance. Since they have formed an alliance to occupy the pride, why not form more than four major alliances to improve their chances of success?
It turns out that although big lions have an advantage in capturing lions, not every male lion has a chance to mate. Studies show that the combination of two lions can get half the chance of mating, and the bigger the alliance, the fiercer the competition, so not every male lion has the right to mate in an alliance of more than four lions.
Non-consanguineous cooperation must be based on the opportunity for all parties to carry on the family line, so it is impossible for non-close relatives to form a stable alliance with more than four lions. In the true brother alliance, the lion who has no right to participate in reproduction is equal to helping his brother to improve the success rate of reproduction, and is also conducive to the continuation of his own genes, because a considerable proportion of his genes are the same as his brothers.
Hamilton, a progressive chemist, put forward a set of rules to explain altruistic behavior between close relatives, which we call "Hamilton rule". According to this law, if a lion wants to reward himself from altruistic behavior, he must let his close relatives have more offspring, which is more than the inverse proportion of the * * * gene.
For example, on average, half the genes between brothers are the same. After the lion sacrifices the mating right, if the brothers can leave more than two offspring, then altruism is beneficial.
To our surprise, the unity between the lion leagues is not close or personal. In an unrelated alliance, no lion will try to hand over the dangerous task of deportation to his companions, but enjoy the right to mate with females.
Every lion knows that brothers, whether brothers or dry brothers, are the key to their own survival. If the lion doesn't help his brother when facing a foreign enemy today, and his brother dies, it will be his turn to face the enemy alone tomorrow. Even if he is lucky enough to choose his own life, he will never have a chance to join the pride again.
Therefore, for lions, brothers are everything. With brothers, you can keep your territory and get a wife. The brotherhood between lions is better than that he is my brother, and Taoyuan is sworn.