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The African buffalo or Cape buffalo (Syncerus caffer) is a large African bovine.

It is not closely related to the slightly larger wild water buffalo of Asia and its ancestry remains unclear.

Syncerus caffer caffer, the Cape buffalo, is the typical subspecies, and the largest one, found in South and East Africa.

S.

c.

nanus (African forest buffalo) is the smallest subspecies, common in forest areas of Central and West Africa, while S.

c.

brachyceros is in West Africa and S.

c.

aequinoctialis is in the savannas of Central Africa.

The Asiatic cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus venaticus), also known as Iranian cheetah is a Critically Endangered cheetah subspecies surviving today only in Iran.

It once occurred from the Arabian Peninsula to the Kyzylkum Desert, Caspian region, Pakistan and India, but has been extirpated there during the 20th century.

Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most-populous continent.

At about 30.3 million km² (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area and 20.4 % of its total land area.

With 1.2 billion people as of 2016, it accounts for about 16% of the world's human population.

The continent is surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, both the Suez Canal and the Red Sea along the Sinai Peninsula to the northeast, the Indian Ocean to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west.

The continent includes Madagascar and various archipelagos.

It contains 54 fully recognized sovereign states (countries), nine territories and two de facto independent states with limited or no recognition.

Bison hunting (hunting of the American bison, also commonly known as the American buffalo) was an activity fundamental to the economy and society of the Plains Indians peoples who inhabited the vast grasslands on the Interior Plains of North America, prior to the animal's near-extinction in the late nineteenth century.

The species' dramatic decline was the result of habitat loss due to the expansion of ranching and farming in western North America, industrial-scale hunting practised by non-indigenous hunters, increased indigenous hunting pressure due to non-indigenous demand for bison hides and meat, and even cases of deliberate policy by settler governments to destroy the food source of the native Indian peoples during times of conflict.

Bison were first hunted for their meat, but now they are hunted for sport.

A safari is an overland journey, usually a trip by tourists to Africa.

In the past, the trip was often a big-game hunt, but today, safari often refers to trips to observe and photograph wildlife—or hiking and sight-seeing as well.