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Major Chauncey Hugh Stigand (1877–1919) was a British soldier, colonial administrator and big-game hunter. Serving in Burma, British Somaliland, British East Africa and the Sudan, Stigand was a keen big-game hunter who took greater risks than most hunters and often came close to being fatally injured. Stigand was gored in the chest by a rhino ...
The Duke of Algeciras with a trophy African leopard, one of the 'Big Five', Southern Rhodesia, 1926. Big-game hunting is the hunting of large game animals for trophies, taxidermy, meat, and commercially valuable animal by-products (such as horns, antlers, tusks, bones, fur, body fat, or special organs).
The area was first designated a protected area in 1896 by the German Governor of Tanganyika Hermann von Wissmann, and became a hunting reserve in 1905.The reserve was named after Frederick Selous, a famous big game hunter and early conservationist, who died at Beho Beho in this territory in 1917 while fighting against the Germans during World War I.
Walter Dalrymple Maitland Bell (8 September 1880 – 30 June 1954), known as Karamojo Bell after the Karamoja sub-region in Uganda, which he travelled extensively, was a Scottish adventurer, big game hunter in East Africa, [3] soldier, decorated fighter pilot, sailor, writer, and painter.
Jim Shockey (born 1957) is a Canadian outdoor writer, a professional big game outfitter and television producer and host for many hunting shows. Shockey is the former producer and host of Jim Shockey's Hunting Adventures and Jim Shockey's Uncharted on Outdoor Channel and Jim Shockey's The Professionals on Outdoor Channel and Sportsman Channel.
On the night of 1 July 2015, Cecil was lured out of the protected area and wounded with an arrow by Walter Palmer, an American recreational big-game trophy hunter, [2] [3] [4] then tracked and killed with a compound bow the following morning, between 10 and 12 hours later. [1] [5] Cecil was 13 years old when killed. [6]
"The Most Dangerous Game", also published as "The Hounds of Zaroff", is a short story by Richard Connell, [1] first published in Collier's on January 19, 1924, with illustrations by Wilmot Emerton Heitland.
In Africa, the Big Five game animals are the lion, leopard, rhinoceros, elephant, and African buffalo. [1] The term was coined by big-game hunters to refer to the five most difficult animals in Africa to hunt on foot, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] but is now more widely used by game viewing tourists and safari tour operators.