Big-game hunting
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Big-game hunting is the hunting of large game, almost always large terrestrial mammals, for meat, other animal by-products (such as horn or bone), trophy or sport. The term is historically associated with the hunting of Africa's "Big Five" game (lion, African elephant, Cape buffalo, leopard and rhinoceros), and with tigers and rhinoceroses on the Indian subcontinent. Along with the big five animals, many other species are hunted including kudu, antelope, and hartebeest. Moose, elk, caribou, bison, mule deer, and white-tailed deer are the largest game hunted in North America, which is where most big-game hunting is conducted today.
Big-game hunting is conducted in Africa, North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Australia. In Africa, lion, Cape buffalo, elephant, giraffe and other large game animals are hunted. In North America, animals such as bear, wolf, caribou, moose, elk, alligator, boar, sheep and bison are hunted. In South America, deer and other species are hunted. In Europe, sheep, boar, goats, elk, deer, and other species are hunted. In Asia, several species of deer, bear, sheep and other species are hunted. In Australia, several species of deer and wild boar are hunted.
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Famous big-game hunters
Africa
- W.D.M. Bell (later known as “Karamojo” Bell), Scottish born elephant hunter
- John Henry Patterson (killed the Tsavo Man-Eaters)
- Frederick Russell Burnham (Lord Roberts' Chief of Scouts in the Second Boer War and known as: England's American Scout)
- Bror von Blixen-Finecke (who was, between 1914 and 1926, married to Out of Africa author Karen Blixen)
- Denys Finch-Hatton (who was, after her marriage collapsed, Karen Blixen's lover)
- T.R.M. Howard (civil rights leader, entrepreneur, surgeon, mentor to Medgar Evers and Fannie Lou Hamer, hunted African big game in the 1960s and 1970)
- John A. Hunter
- Philip Percival
- Frank M. "Bunny" Allen, whose safaris with Ernest Hemingway led the author to write Green Hills of Africa, True at First Light, The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, and The Snows of Kilimanjaro
- Theodore Roosevelt, US President who travelled and hunted in Africa following his terms in office
- Frederick Selous
- Peter Hathaway Capstick, American hunter who spent most of his life in Africa
- Bali Mauladad, the only non-white to be admitted to the East African Professional Hunter's Association
Asia
- Britain's King George V hunted in Nepal in 1911.
- Ibrahim of Johor who began shooting in the summer of 1897 and by 1898 killed his first tiger on foot.
- Jim Corbett, author of Man-Eaters of Kumaon
- Samuel Baker
- Kenneth Anderson 1910–1974, hunter and writer of Nine Maneaters And One Rogue (1954)
North America
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