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The Big Five
For some reason, there's a group of animals designated as The Big Five, and apparently no African safari trip is considered complete unless one sees all of them. The five are:
I don't know why any list of "Big N" African animals wouldn't include the hippopotamus, which is pretty damn big. And of course if I only saw the Big Five and nothing else, I wouldn't exactly consider my trip complete.
But anyway, we did see all five of them, although the one leopard (sacked out in a tree) was so far away you could hardly tell what it was.
But our guide told us about The Little Five:
the only one of these that we saw was the buffalo weaver, of which![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jwg probably has a photo or two.
buffalo
elephant
leopard
lion
rhinoceros
I don't know why any list of "Big N" African animals wouldn't include the hippopotamus, which is pretty damn big. And of course if I only saw the Big Five and nothing else, I wouldn't exactly consider my trip complete.
But anyway, we did see all five of them, although the one leopard (sacked out in a tree) was so far away you could hardly tell what it was.
But our guide told us about The Little Five:
buffalo weaver
elephant shrew
leopard tortoise
ant lion
rhinoceros beetle
the only one of these that we saw was the buffalo weaver, of which
jwg probably has a photo or two.