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"In the dappled light at the edge of the woodland there’s a movement. Just a
hint of the grass parting. If anything, it’s just a sense of movement and then,
for just a moment, all is still. Even the scream of the cicadas seems to pause.
Suddenly, and with lightning speed, the tension breaks as a large cat races in
a blur of speed toward a potential meal.
To see a big cat hunting is one of the natural world’s most thrilling
experiences. But this particular cat was no lion tearing into a herd of
wildebeest on the plains of the Serengeti and nor was it a beautiful tiger
leaping onto a passing sambar in India. Instead, this was a rare Iberian lynx
leaping onto a rabbit in southern Spain.
Made famous by 19th-century big game hunters in East Africa, the Big Five –
Lion, leopard, elephant, rhino and buffalo – are what almost every modern-day
safari-goer hopes to see. But, while the dream of an East African safari might
be out of reach for many of us, it doesn’t mean the Big Five are. Back in 2014,
the IUCN and Rewilding Europe declared that the wolf, lynx, brown bear,
wolverine and bison were Europe’s very own Big Five. Seeing some of these
iconic creatures in the wild is no less exciting than watching a pride of
hunting lions.
To find out how to see them, follow our guide to having a European Big Five
safari this summer."
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