Animal mating six relatives, stray male lions grow up, if the mother how to do?

However, the animals are driven out, wandering around for a few years, back to their birthplace, in case they meet their parents or siblings, driven by instinct to mating what to do.

At this time, the animal does not recognize its blood relatives, can still recognize its blood relatives?

For example, the lion, after the male lion was driven out, he wandered back to his original pride, and met his mother and sister how to do?

The wisdom of the lions

In the world's most popular animated film "The Lion King", Simba and Nana two cute lions from growing up to reunite touched countless viewers.

However, if you think about it, you will find that Simba and Nana were born in a lion pride, and they are essentially half-brothers and half-sisters.

As a result, at the end of the cartoon, the two lions were happily married and gave birth to a baby lion.

Of course, a cartoon is certainly an art form of change, but the reality of the Lion King story does not happen.

First of all, the lion's throne is not passed to their sons, they are competing for the post, and the outside wandering male lions will directly snatch the last lion king's seat.

If the lion king's children are still very young at this time, then the new lion king will simply kill, regardless of male or female.

The cartoon Scar cleaned up Simba this plot is correct, the lion king will rarely tolerate the former lion king's children.

But there is a bug in the animation, that is, although Nana is a female lion, by the tradition of the lion underage all kill.

Secondly, the male lion in the pride should be expelled at the age of about two, because it is a threat to his father if he stays on.

If he becomes sexually mature in pride, he will mate with other lionesses, which the lion king will not tolerate.

This is why we find that many of the young male lions that are driven out have not grown their manes, which means that they are not fully mature.

Finally, the male lion who has been driven away will never be able to return to his birthplace because he will encounter a lot of hardships on the way and will not have two helpers, Dingman and Puffy.

The lion is the only herd animal in the cat family, because, in the African savanna, it is too difficult to fight alone, unless it becomes a hexagonal warrior like the leopard, able to run and jump and climb trees, otherwise, it will only be like a cheetah, working hard for half a day and having its prey snatched away.

The size of the lion is the largest in the African grasslands, so the need for food is also more, but the difficulty of hunting is too great, even if the effort to catch the prey, but also faces the hyenas, African wild dogs snatching.

Especially hyenas, they and the lion in a feud, and each other is met with a deadly hand, hyenas usually move out in groups, and directly round up the lion alone.

Therefore, leaving the lion's pride of male lions will encounter a lot of danger, and living is becoming a problem.

The Adventures of a Wandering Male Lion

The first thing a male lion does after leaving his pride is to rush to find a companion who is also a wanderer. If the male lion has a brother of his own, then they will leave the pride together and spend the initial difficulties together.

If the male lion is the only son of the pride, no brother survived to adulthood, and only one lion in the African grasslands is very dangerous.

First of all, it is very difficult to hunt, the animals on the African savanna are all flying legs, the lion's endurance is not very good, can not chase prey for a long time.

The lions are generally ambushed in advance, by a lion chasing prey into the circle, and then they come together to subdue the prey.

After leaving the pride, a stray male lion, without the help of his pride members, has a much lower success rate in hunting and may not be able to eat for a long time.

For this reason, the male lion will succumb to reality and go to pick up the leftovers of other animals, in short, scavenging.

Animals are opportunists, there can be eaten carrion, regardless of whether you are the king of the grassland, but also to live as the first goal.

Second, it is to face more predators, and with a little carelessness, it may become the food of other animals.

Nature is cruel, lions are not invincible, and they also have their natural enemies in the African grasslands.

The biggest threat to stray male lions is the hyena and other male lions, the hyena itself and the lion is a deadly rival, see the lion alone, and they will come straight up, "friendly" to the lion to do a set of "anal surgery".

Why do other male lions also become natural enemies? It is reasonable to say that all wandering, should not be together in a group to tide over the difficulties.

Not every wandering male lion for their kind will have "eye of the sky fallen lion" feelings, in their eyes, the resources here are limited, which is difficult to get, if a male lion and their rob, their survival will be even less likely.

In addition, some male lions have formed small groups, they are weaker than their male lions to take the attitude of killing the weak, and can not let the weak strong, because the strong will be their rivals.

Finally, the wandering male lion matured after a series of trials and tribulations, with the impact of the lion king's qualifications, but it can not guarantee that they can 100% take the throne, is in the lion king fight dead male lions have a lot.

The odds are comparable to buying a lottery ticket.

Mechanisms that prevent inbreeding in animals

We know from our analysis that the probability of a male lion returning to his original pride is almost zero, so it is difficult for a stray male lion to meet his mother.

However, the female lion of the pride does not leave the pride, so will he stay in his pride and not mate with his lion king's father?

The answer is no, her father will not be the lion king for so long.

The average lifespan of a male lion is 12 years, with females living longer at about 15 years, and the peak of a male lion is between 5 and 9 years old, which usually lasts only 2 to 3 years.

In other words, the male lion will be the lion king for at most three years, after which he will be beaten by a younger and stronger male lion, and his pride will change hands.

The age of sexual maturity for lionesses happens to be right at 3 years old, which means that the daughter has just matured and the dad has been driven away.

The new lion king will not tolerate the old lion king's cubs, but will not kill the old lion king's already mature daughter.

Therefore, the lioness matured and could no longer see her dad, and her first litter of cubs was the new lion king's.

This lion in more than 100,000 years of evolution was naturally selected out of the breeding mechanism, but also the most suitable for their current way.

Not only lions, but many herd animals have this mechanism, driving away the soon-to-be adult males, leaving the females behind, while the new leader will replace the old one, completing a wave of turnover.

This ensures that the latest batch of females give birth to children that are not inbred offspring, helping the population to reproduce.

In the case of solitary animals, both males and females are driven away, or the parents leave quietly, leaving the children where they are.

If they are too close, the parents will also attack the children with a vengeance, leaving them as far away as possible to open their own lives, and everyone forgets about each other, almost unable to meet again in their lifetime.