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African Elephant. Elephants at the Sabie River. The African elephant is one of "The Big Five," the five animals considered the most dangerous and difficult to hunt. The others are the Cape Buffalo, rhino, lion and leopard.
Aquila private game reserve is located about 2 hours drive from Cape Town, making it one of the closest places to the city to see the "big five". These traditionally included lions, rhinos, buffalo, elephant and leopard for their difficulty to hunt and kill with older rifle and bow technology. Sadly nowadays rifle and bullet tech makes this too easy, and gives rise to "canned hunting" for tourism. Here at the Aquila reserve they also run a resuce and rehabilitation programme for "canned animals" including one leopard rescued from such a scheme.
This lion had just been evicted from his pride by another male pair. His brother was killed in the proceses.
The most familiar sight of lions :-))
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African Elephant. The African elephant is one of "The Big Five," the five animals considered the most dangerous and difficult to hunt. The others are the Cape Buffalo, rhino, lion and leopard.
African Lion (female). After the waterbuck foiled their attack, the lionesses turned their attention to a herd of Impala.