The Big Five

[rsc]

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:

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.

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[rsc.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's another one I don't understand. But I guess somebody in Marketing decided that five was a good number.

There were plenty of giraffes. In fact, the first serious animals we saw on the trip were giraffes.