Game animals called the Big Five (the Big Five) ca...

Game animals called the Big Five (the Big Five) can be found in the Kruger National Park, which protects 147 species of mammals. In 2004, the park had approximately:

25,150 African buffalo

200 licaones

350 black rhino

32,000 Burchell's zebras

500 hieroglyphic antelopes

200 cheetahs

300 common elands

9,000 giraffes



3,000 hippos

more than 170,000 impalas

1,000 leopards

1,000 lions

160 mountain reduncas

300 nyalas

300 reduncas

60 roan antelopes

550 saber antelopes

10,670 savanna elephants

2,000 spotted hyenas

200 topis

3,800 warthogs

5,000 aquatic antelopes

0 white rhinos

17,000 wildebeest



The park began to use annual contraception in 1995, but had to leave this program due to problems in the delivery of contraceptives and the inconvenience they caused to the herds.

The Kruger National Park stores more than 48 tons of ivory. According to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES, for its acronym in English), the sale of 30 tons is allowed.