Big
Five was inspired by my brother Barr, who is currently studying to be a veterinarian.
In 2004 he spent a summer working in an animal rehab center and private game
reserve near Kruger National Park in South Africa. Barr came home with many
pictures and stories of the amazing things that he saw there, such as the
Big Five. “Big Five” was coined by African hunters of a bygone
era to describe the most difficult and dangerous animals to hunt on foot:
the Lion (the most dominant of the pictured animals), the Black Rhinoceros
(whose horns are on the top of the lion’s nose), the African Elephant
(represented by the trunk and tusks that protrude from the lion’s chin),
the Leopard (whose head and paw rest just above and behind the lion’s),
and the Cape Buffalo (represented by its horns, one side which curves into
the lion’s mouth and the other out like a tongue). Today the Big Five
have become synonymous with Africa and are thought to be some of the greatest
animals that can be seen in the world.
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