After Turning Into An Animal, I Rely On My Face To Make A Living

Andrew adjusted the focus and recognized that the male leopard in front of him was just the male leopard he had photographed before, and then pointed the red cross dot at the female leopard cub.

No matter how he looks at it, it looks familiar.

For a while, he couldn't remember why it looked familiar.

It has been less than half of the dry season since the last time he photographed a leopard. He only followed it two or three times before losing the subject and had to switch his target to other animals.

During this period, he filmed more than one animal protagonist. The grasslands are rich in material, and the animal migrations during the dry season dazzled humans. He soon forgot some short-lived creatures.

Andrew couldn't take his eyes away: "The male leopard I see now is Klein, who I photographed before. He has grown into a more muscular figure after a rainy season."

"I dare say that no one has ever seen such a handsome leopard. When he reaches his peak, he will definitely become one of the most powerful leopards in history."

It is always a pleasure to meet familiar animals, but now we see an unprecedented scene of a male leopard raising its cubs. Photographers who have seen many strange animals have to sigh.

"I have been making documentaries for so many years, and this is the first time I saw a male leopard drinking water alone with its cubs. This is really strange."

As we all know, the cubs of animals are usually taken care of by their mothers. Male lions and male leopards are the masters of child care, and they do more fighting and guarding their territory.

Compared to the male leopard in front of him, who was watching the little leopard lick the water before starting to drink it himself, he seemed very out of place.

As soon as humans set foot on this territory, Klein noticed the sound of cars driving across the sand in the distance. The sound of tires rubbing against sand and gravel was the easiest to distinguish on the grassland.

It's not like he has never been followed with a "black tube" before. The male leopard was not surprised by this and continued to drink his own water.

Shi Qiao also noticed the off-road vehicle behind her and the photographer on it. She couldn't help but stop drinking water and looked back frequently. After being in the grassland for so long, she finally saw the same kind of people she was so familiar with again.

She still has some mixed feelings in her heart.

In the past, she had seen photographers armed with guns and cannons more than once in documentaries, showing others everything on the prairie. Many of them were animal enthusiasts, and they especially liked to follow lions, leopards, and other beasts.

Human beings have a strong desire to be strong, and the powerful, elegant, and beautiful cats on the grassland are their first choice for photography.

Shi Qiao looked at the very professional person on the other side's car.

Shi Qiao looked at the full set of professional equipment in the other party's car and knew that these humans would not harm them. It was just that she had transformed from a bystander of the documentary to a subject being photographed.

It's quite subtle.

After all, her core is not a pure animal that does not understand human activities. The thought of being recorded by various telephoto, macro, and wide-angle lenses eating, drinking, and peeing is a bit awkward no matter how she thinks about it. It has no privacy compared to a reality show.

Shi Qiao moved to the right of the boss, trying to block herself with his huge body. Unfortunately, the photographer would also move his position. She hid on the right, and the other party drove the car to a place where the view could not be blocked. She got to the left, and the other party drove back to the original position.

Shi Qiao: "..."

She understands, he is determined to get her into the picture.

The little leopard ducked left and right under his belly and annoyed Klein. He took her out from under his belly and put her aside. He shouted in warning: "Drink some water."

After taking a few licks of lake water, Shi Qiao urged the boss to leave quickly.

If they return to the tree and are blocked by the canopy, he probably won't be able to take a clear picture.

She didn't want her bloody face to be shown on the big screen for people to watch over and over again. If any embarrassing moment was recorded, it might be edited into a ghostly video and passed down through the ages.

It's scary to think about it!

He doesn't know why a certain little leopard suddenly became so coquettish that she even had to hide from something when walking.

Klein followed the other person's line of sight and looked at the off-road vehicle that was getting closer and closer to them, and then he realized that the other person might be afraid of this big guy.

How can she be so timid? 

She still needs to exercise more.

Klein clicked his tongue and picked the opponent up from behind, leaving the human behind.

He hadn't picked up the little leopard since she was little and after her hind legs fully recovered, she didn't like to let him hold her very much. One reason is that it hurts a little when she is picked up again after the weight and height increase. The other reason is that the leopard becomes lively and active and prefers to walk on her own.

Now it seems that she is really not used to having a weird big guy following behind her. She didn't struggle even when she was picked up. She even held her head with her two front paws and bent her tail from behind to block her private parts.

In fact, Shi Qiao had to cover her face because she didn't want to be slapped in the face.

A little leopard as big as her will no longer be carried away by her parents. This is equivalent to riding a baby scooter in elementary school, which is quite shameful.

Fortunately, Klein ran fast and she managed to endure the pain on the back of her neck before returning to the tree. Shi Qiao climbed closer to the tree crown using all four limbs, and then relaxed and lost her burden.

Photographer Andrew did not continue to follow. There were other trees around the big and small leopards, covering most of their bodies. At this time, it was too close to take a full picture, so he deliberately drove to a farther plain.

It wasn't until the strong male leopard climbed to the top to find the little leopard, and after a while of tug-of-war, to bring her back to a safer lower branch, that Andrew focused on the front faces of the two leopards at the same time.

He froze the screen and took a closer look at the big one and the small one in the photo. He was surprised to find that they did not seem to be his biological father and daughter.

Andrew rewound the previous material and became more and more certain of this conclusion.

"We can see that Klein is still very young and should not have reached maturity yet. Unless he can go into heat when he is a sub-adult, then this little leopard cannot be his biological daughter. At best, they can only be regarded as the eldest brother and the youngest sister."

However, the possibility that they were born together was also zero, because Andrew recognized the little leopard.

"Remember when the dry season first came and we photographed a mother leopard with her baby?"

Andrew pointed to the photo in the frame to his companion: "When I saw her for the second time, one of the three cubs was missing. The female leopard cub was exactly the same as the current one."

After comparing the appearance, pattern, and eye color, humans finally connected the two events on the timeline.

The leopard mother gave up her weakest cub for unknown reasons. After several trips, the cub broke into another male leopard's territory and was led by him to the vicinity of the Mara River during the dry season.

In other words, this male leopard named Klein adopted the abandoned Thea voluntarily.

The human being figured out the cause and effect became more interested in this strange pair and raised the camera they had just put down.

The frail little female before has been completely transformed. The fur on her body is new and smooth. She is petite but not dry. Her eyes are like polished amber, staring at the clearest spring on the grassland.

She looks a bit like her biological mother and even looks more beautiful and dazzling because of her eyes.

Andrew sighed again and again, saying aazg so many times that he couldn't count.

Generally speaking, even if he picks up a strange cub of the same kind in his own territory, the adult male leopard will not be merciful and take it back to raise it himself. They are too lazy to take care of their own cubs, and it is even more impossible to pull a leopard that will become a competitor for resources.

But the male leopard in front of him did just that.

And it lasted for more than a month.

Andrew was amazed in his heart as he watched the male leopard hold the little leopard in his arms and lick her fur.

Shi Qiao on the tree was being baptized with saliva by the boss. She thought to herself that there is really no upper limit to human adaptability. She originally had the same ancestry as the photographer she saw today, but now she has been assimilated into half a native little leopard.

When the other person finishes licking one side of her face, she will skillfully turn her head to expose the other side.

When she turned around, she caught a glimpse of the off-road vehicle in the distance.

Destiny is really fickle. Once upon a time, her dream was to go to the African savannah to appreciate the beautiful scenery of animals and nature coexisting in harmony. Who could have imagined that she would lead the way and become one of the savannah animals before she had saved enough money?

If she ran up to the photographer now and scratched the ground with her paws and said, "I was once a human", she would probably scare the shit out of the entire team.

Shi Qiao imagined in her mind the appearance of human beings with their jaws dropped, but that was all she could do.

If she really did this, she would probably be caught on the spot and sent to a small dark room in a certain country to do some shady and horrific experiments. Maybe she will be dissected into pieces, and the brain slices will be soaked in formalin forever.

The scene of her being tied to the experimental table with a restraint belt vividly appeared in her mind. The little leopard immediately shuddered and threw all these images out.

It's more reliable to be the boss's little follower!

He noticed that the little leopard next to him was ups and downs in mood. Sometimes the tip of her tail became ridged, and sometimes her hair exploded and she shook her head vigorously. She was immersed in her own world and couldn't extricate herself. It seemed that there was something wrong with her brain.

Klein thought that the other person was frightened by the giant steel beast he saw for the first time in his life, so he knocked the little cub on the head with some worry.

Shi Qiao was knocked twice on the head for no reason. After coming back to her senses, she covered her head and screamed at the other person.

"Why do you want to hit me? Your little follower is also your relative and needs to be loved and protected. We can't make it a habit and start domestic violence!"

Klein: "..."

He couldn't understand anything about "little follower" or "domestic violence". They were all new words invented by the other party.

But Klein understood the word "care". He licked the little head that hurt when he hit her just now, held the other person in his arms, and lay down, using his body to block the direction where the off-road vehicle could be seen.

If the other party doesn't like seeing that big guy, then just avoid him from now on.

Klein has not actively avoided any animals until now. He was lucky. Ever since he became independent, he had found a territory that had just lost its leader. That area overlapped a small part of the activity range of a certain lion group, but he had never seen it until now.

The advantages of a large territory are also significant. The wider the hunting range, the richer the resources, and the more food to choose from.

Coupled with the excellent ability, there is no need to try every means to steal food from the mouths of the lions, and it is considered that the most troublesome thing in the territory is the hyenas, other than the lions.

Humans call hyenas the second brother of the grassland. Leopards are not on the same level because they are equally difficult to deal with lions.

A warrior like a cheetah must recognize the situation clearly when encountering a hyena army, drop the food, and run away.

Klein doesn't have this problem.

When he was just an adult, he was already able to kill hyenas alone, so much so that the nearby hyena pack would eat leftovers to see if the leopard had gone far.

After picking up the cub, Klein was a little more cautious than before. Every time he took the little leopard to eat, he always ate in a tree, so as not to attract the hyenas to the smell of food, and the group of hyenas could only look at it and sigh.

With the big boss around to frighten the enemy, Shi Qiao almost forgot about the threat of the first and second brothers in the grassland. Sometimes when she saw the salivating hyena under the tree being scared away for hundreds of meters by the big man's roar, she would think that the other person was nothing more than that.

If the fox pretends to be the tiger's power for a long time, the little follower will also become arrogant.

Until Shi Qiao saw the lion leader coming from the other side a few days later.

Ever since he discovered the two leopards, Andrew had been coming here to take pictures. Thinking that a certain cub didn't want to get too close to the two-legged beasts, Klein took the cub to play peek-a-boo with humans.

Committed to making the other person unable to shoot.

Fortunately, Andrew is also a professional animal photographer who has been walking with various animals for many years, and occasionally he can find two leopards, big and small, based on clues.

While walking in circles with the two leopards, the human saw the male lion Sunny getting closer and closer. The lion was preparing to expand its territory and had marked its territory on the way here.

In the past was this black locust forest, and beyond that was a zelkova tree, which is where Klein and Thea are now based.

The human is worried about the inevitable future encounter between leopards and lions. At the same time, he also wants to record the confrontation between the two sides. He works overtime every day to follow them and stay near them until the early morning.

Shi Qiao felt that the human being was getting more and more annoyed and was simply pushing his limits.

She was filmed eating, drinking, and sleeping, and was forced to accept the fact that her privacy would be exposed in front of more humans. Now it has evolved into guarding here 24 hours a day.

It's too much, and she can't get rid of it.

Having developed a leopard's sleep schedule, she was already awake when she slept late at night. The drought was severe. They had not caught prey for two days and needed to replenish food.

Klein decided to try somewhere further tonight.

Shi Qiao didn't want to stay at home and wanted to go with him to see if she could use human wisdom to help.

Of course, this proposal was rejected again as expected.

But this time she learned the lesson, and after the other person jumped off the tree, she also jumped down and followed him forcefully.

Klein opened his canine teeth fiercely at the little leopard, trying to scare her back into the tree. Unexpectedly, a certain cub showed no fear at all, and instead came up and rubbed his chin with her head.

This was more foul, and the pretense of ferocity disappeared instantly.

She thought she could convince the boss to take her out this time, but to her surprise, the other party sniffed around and smelled the scent of another beast.

Shi Qiao looked at the other party's golden eyes, and she didn't know what he thought of. He immediately took her neck and returned to the tree.

Sure enough, the other party's keen sense of smell was correct. Not long after, Shi Qiao saw a magnificent male lion under the tree.