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
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