Many visitors to Africa come to see the ‘Big Five’.
If it is the Big Five you are eager to see then visiting the Game Reservations with a local team gives you the best opportunity to see them all, with their local knowledge and radio contact with others in the parks.
The ‘Big Five’ are dangerous animals, but not necessarily the most dangerous or even the biggest, but were considered the most difficult to hunt.
Today we ‘hunt’ with a camera rather than a gun and find that that the animals are much more receptive to our presence.
The black Rhinoceros has poor eyesight but a keen sense of smell and sound and have been known to charge the hunter with gun or spear without apparent provocation.
Although Elephant are large only a bullet or arrow in a tiny area will bring down one of these magnificent and normally docile creatures and a wounded Elephant is extremely dangerous. They say an Elephant never forgets and there are stories about hunters being killed by Elephants they have previously wounded, sometimes even years later.
Lion are cunning hunters in their own right and know how to outwit those hunting them.
Leopards are solitary and elusive and like Lions are clever at outsmarting hunters.
A wounded Cape Buffalo will circle back and ambush a hunter and is perhaps the most dangerous of the ‘Big Five’.
The advantage of travelling with Often in Africa is you do not need to be concerned about the reputations of the ‘Big Five’ and can enjoy viewing them from the safety of your vehicle as they go about their lives.
