Big game hunting is the hunting of large game. The term is historically associated with the hunting of Africa's Big Five game (lion, the African elephant, the Cape Buffalo, the leopard and the rhinoceros), and with tigers and rhinos on the Indian subcontinent. In North America, animals such as bears and bison were hunted. Most of these species are protected now, but other species such as kudu, antelope, hartebeest, moose, elk, and deer are still hunted.
Big game hunting occurs in places such as Argentina, New Zealand, Canada, many parts of the USA, and in many parts of Africa.
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Famous quotes containing the words big, game and/or hunting:
“Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede I have ever seen? “And here is my good big centipede!” If such a man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race.”
—William Burroughs (b. 1914)
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—Lynn Redgrave (b. 1943)
“The French manner of hunting is gentlemanlike; ours is only for bumpkins and bodies. The poor beasts here are pursued and run down by much greater beasts than themselves; and the true British fox-hunter is most undoubtedly a species appropriated and peculiar to this country, which no other part of the globe produces.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)