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Encyclopedia > Big game hunting
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For the video game, see Big Game Hunter (video game).

A big-game hunter is a person engaged in the sport of hunting large wild animals or game. The pursuit of the major objective might place the hunter at risk of personal harm. Potential big-game sought include, but are not limited to, bears, big cats, boar, elephants, moose, and so forth. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... A hunter on horseback shoots at deer or elk with a bow. ... A hunter on horseback shoots at deer or elk with a bow. ... Game is any animal hunted for food or not normally domesticated (such as venison). ... Genera Ailuropoda Ailurus Helarctos Melursus Ursus Tremarctos Arctodus (extinct) A bear is a large mammal in the family Ursidae of the order Carnivora. ... Big cat refers to large wild felids of the Americas, Africa, Asia and Europe. ... Binomial name Sus scrofa Linnaeus, 1758 Young piglets feeding The Wild Boar (Sus scrofa) is the wild ancestor of the domestic pig. ... Genera and Species Loxodonta Loxodonta cyclotis Loxodonta africana Elephas Elephas maximus Elephas recki † Stegodon † Mammuthus † Elephantidae (the elephants) is a family of pachyderm, and the only remaining family in the order Proboscidea in the class Mammalia. ... Binomial name Alces alces (Linnaeus, 1758) Moose range map Alces alces, called the moose in North America and the elk in Europe (see also elk for other animals called elk) is the largest member of the deer family Cervidae, distinguished from other members of Cervidae by the form of the...


Further reading

  • Foa, E. After Big Game in Central Africa. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-03274-9

External links

  • Safari Press


 
 

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