Big-game hunting
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Big-game hunting is the hunting of large game animals for trophies, taxidermy, meat, and commercially valuable animal by-products. The term is often associated with the hunting of Africa's "Big Five"
The Duke of Algeciras with a trophy African leopard, one of the 'Big Five', Southern Rhodesia, 1926
Elephant hunting by the Dahomey Amazons depicted in Le Tour du Monde in 1863
Native Americans hunting bison, from an 1855 illustration
400 pound tiger taken by Reverend H. R. Caldwell using a Savage Model 99 chambered for .22 Savage Hi-Power
Big Five game
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In Africa, the Big Five game animals are the lion, leopard, rhinoceros, elephant, and African buffalo. The term was coined by big-game hunters to refer to the five most difficult animals to hunt on fo
The Big Five
Bull African bush elephant in the Maasai Mara national reserve, Kenya.
Black rhinoceros in Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania.
African buffalo bull in Chobe National Park, Botswana.