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BIG GAME HUNTERS
The phrase Big Five game was coined by big-game hunters and refers to the five most difficult animals in Africa to hunt on foot. The term is still used in most tourist and wildlife guides that discuss African wildlife safaris.The collection consists of the Lion, the African Elephant, the Cape Buffalo, the Leopard and the Black Rhinoceros. The members of the big five were chosen for the difficulty in hunting them and not their size.
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Leopard

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The African Leopard (Panthera pardus pardus) is the most common leopard sub-species with the least conservation concern.

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Elephant

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The African Bush Elephant (Loxodonta africana) is the larger of the two species of African elephants. Both it and the African Forest Elephant have usually been classified as a single species, known simply as the African Elephant. Some authorities still consider the currently available evidence insufficient for splitting the African Elephant into two species. It is also known as the Bush Elephant or Savanna Elephant.

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Buffalo

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The African buffalo is a very robust species. It is up to 1.7 metres high, 3.4 meters long. The Savannah type buffalo weigh 500–900 kg, with males, normally larger than females, reaching the upper weight range. Forest type buffalo are only half that size. The Savannah type buffalo have black or dark brown coats and their horns are curved to a closed crescent. The Forest type buffalo are reddish brown in color with horns that curve out backwards and upwards. Calves of both types have red coats.

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Rhino

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Rhinoceros (pronounced /raɪˈnɒsərəs/), often colloquially abbreviated rhino, is a name used to group five extant species of odd-toed ungulates in the family rhinocerotidae. Two of these species are native to Africa  and three to southern Asia. Three of the five species—the Javan, Sumatran and Black Rhinoceros—are critically endangered. The Indian Rhinoceros is endangered, with fewer than 2,700 individuals remaining in the wild. The White is registered as "vulnerable", with approximately 17,500 remaining in the wild, as reported by the International Rhino Foundation.
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Lion

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The lion (Panthera leo) is one of the four big cats  in the genus  Panthera, and a member of the family Felidae. With some males exceeding 250 kg (550 lb) in weight, it is the second-largest living cat after the tiger. Wild lions currently exist in Sub-Saharan Africa and in Asia with a critically endangered remnant population in Gir Forest National Park in India, having disappeared from North Africa and Southwest Asia in historic times. Until the late Pleistocene, about 10,000 years ago, the lion was the most widespread large land mammal after humans. They were found in most of Africa, much of Eurasia from western Europe to India, and in the Americas from the Yukon to Peru.

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