I know this has probably been asked 1,000,000 times, but...

What, in your opinion, is the most dangerous animal in Africa?

How 'bout the most dangerous wounded animal in Africa?

You'll have to excuse me, but I just finished reading "Death in Silent Places."

I'll have to vote for the most dangerous as the hippo.

Most dangerous wounded animal would be the leopard, no doubt. However, I would think that an angry, charging leopard would be easier to kill than an angry and wounded cape buff. So there's the rub...the leopard is easier to kill, but you wouldn't see him until he's right on you. A buff, on the other hand, might be seen early but can't be taken down with a shotty gun.

that is easly most dangerous animal is man

Mike

I second Retreever. A fourteen year old with empty eyes and an AK.
lawndart

My guess that a wounded lion would certainly fit somewhere near the top of that list.

Hippos reportedly kill more people in Africa each year than anyother animal. Although elephants are the ones that really scare the crap out of me.

Regards,

Mark

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that is easly most dangerous animal is man

I sense that for this thread, he didn't mean for man to be considered an animal.

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Originally posted by lawndart:
I second Retreever. A fourteen year old with empty eyes and an AK.
lawndart

Pfft. Yeah, right. A 14 year old with a gun.

Everybody knows that in Africa, all soldiers complete their tour of duty and retire at age 12. Why, a 14 y.o. would be enjoying the easy life, livin' it up on his military pension, etc. etc. etc.

Rabid bushbaby.

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Originally posted by MARK H. YOUNG:
Hippos reportedly kill more people in Africa each year than anyother animal. Although elephants are the ones that really scare the crap out of me.

Regards,

Mark

Yes, nothing quite so humbling as the close proximity of an elephant.

If I am hunting them, the elephant is the most likely to get you IMO...Buffalo get more hunters but they are the most hunted..Hippo and croc get more of the local tribe people..

The elephant bothers me the most I suppose, but I never gave it much thought...

I'll vote for lion on both counts, although in terms of shear numbers more hunters deal with Cape buffalo, by far, than lion or any other member of the Big Five (plus hippo), it's more likely that a client will get badly injured or killed by buffalo than anything else. I think the buffalo killings and poundings over the last year provide evidence to back up that ascertation.

In the early days, judging by what I've read of early African literature, more clients seemed to get into trouble with lion that anything else. There were a whole lot more lions in African back in those days, and there was a lot more opportunity to hunt lion than there is now. Also, at the turn of the century buffalo were not all that plentiful, since 95% of Africa's buffalo disappeared during the "rinderpest" epidemic of the 1890s.

Today, it's a whole new ballgame.........

AD

My wife with a CC

When talking African animals elephants in the jess are in my opinion extremely dangerous...When you are inside of 30feet of a monster and cannot see him, you had better be more then ready...Ask Rich Elliott he was under a bull ele...lived to tell

Mike

I fully respect all animals big enough to kill me, but the only animal that scares hell right out of me, if wounded, is the African lion, and a little less the Leopard! They are so damn hard to hit when chargeing at close range

What I mean by this is the lion is far more likely to actually "KILL" you than the Leopard, but the Leopard is more likely to get to you. Ele, Buffalo and Hippo are slower than the cats, and easier to hit properly then the cats! That is, if you can keep your head while doing it!

I can tell you this the most worried I've ever been in the hunting field was in the thick jesse with a herd of pissed off cow elephant.

I didn't know I could run so fast.

But that rabid bush baby......

Now there is the stuff of nightmares.

I don't know which is most dangerous but I do know I'm most afraid of lions.

The mosquito is the deadliest animal in Africa.

Oh yes, DG critters ...

Lion!

While I have great respect for all of the dangerous game, I think the lion and leopard bother me the most. Something about the thought of being EATEN really gets me. Not that be gored or speared and then stomped would be any more pleasant, but the potential for being munched on seems to add insult to injury (pardon the pun).

Any wounded animal can give you a fatal injury.
Look out for gemsbuck and bushbuck. Bushpig can also bee nasty.

Wimpie
Pay your insurance, give him the last shot in the spine between the shoulders.

Any wounded animal can give you a fatal injury.
Look out for gemsbuck and bushbuck. Bushpig can also be nasty.

Wimpie
Pay your insurance, give him the last shot in the spine between the shoulders.

Adding to my earlier post I have to say a lion wounded... is going to be a very formidable foe to take down..You may have only time for for 1 well place shot before he hits you..

Mike