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.
Trophy hunting
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Trophy hunting is a form of hunting for sport in which parts of the hunted wild animals are kept and displayed as trophies. The animal being targeted, known as the "game", is typically a mature male s
Theodore Roosevelt standing beside a dead elephant on a trophy hunting trip in Africa.
A hunter and local guides posing with an elephant they killed, 1970
Hunter with a bear's head and hide strapped to his back on the Kodiak Archipelago
Moose head and deer antlers mounted as hunting trophies