Big Five (Safari)
Big game hunters used to refer to five specific animals in Africa as the Big Five . There were elephants (primarily the steppe elephant ), rhinoceros (the black rhinoceros , the more aggressive and previously more common species, or the larger white rhinoceros ), buffalo , lion and leopard . The selection was not primarily based on the size of the animals, but mainly on the difficulties and dangers involved in hunting them.
distribution
The big five can be found today in Botswana , Kenya , Mozambique , Namibia , Zimbabwe , South Africa , Swaziland , Tanzania and Uganda , for example . Big five safaris to these countries are now either hunting trips or tourist excursions in which the animals are observed and photographed.
- The big five
African elephant
(Loxodonta africana)
Black rhinoceros
(Diceros bicornis)
African buffalo
(Syncerus caffer)
Lion
(panthera leo)
Leopard
(panthera pardus)
By poaching that selling the tusks of elephants, the horns of rhinoceros and buffalo or lion - or leopard skins on the black market aims, the stocks of the Big Five are partly threatened, and some species are increasingly due.
Little Five
Analogous to the Big Five , each of the five animals can be assigned a smaller animal, which are derived from the English names of the five Big Five and together form the Little Five of Africa. The following animals are designated as such:
- Elephant shrews (English Elephant shrew ) - counterpart to the African elephant
- Rhinoceros beetle (English Rhinoceros Beetle ) - counterpart to the black rhinoceros
- Buffalo Weaver (English Buffalo weaver ) - counterpart to the African buffalo
- Ant lion (English Antlion ) - counterpart to the lion
- Leopard tortoise (leopard tortoise, English Leopard tortoise ) - counterpart to Leopard
The Little Five in Namibia called Namib Gecko , Peringuey's Adder , shovel nose lizard ( Meroles anchietae ), African orb-weaver and desert chameleon .
Others
- The group of the Big Five is depicted on the five banknotes of the South African rand .
- Based on the Big Five, five animal species that are characteristic of the Wadden Sea are referred to as the Small Five 'The Little Five' .
- The Ugly Five , The Ugly Five ' from Marabu , warthog , vultures , wildebeest and hyena , was developed by Axel Scheffler and Julia Donaldson dedicated to a children's book.
Individual evidence
- ↑ “Big five” - Safari to the last of their kind. Welt.de, March 25, 2016, accessed on November 4, 2016 .
- ↑ interesting info. Living Desert Adventures. Retrieved June 3, 2019.
- ↑ Axel Scheffler and Julia Donaldson : The ugly five . Beltz & Gelberg, Weinheim 2018, ISBN 978-3-407-82305-2 .