Editing Samuel Baker (section)

==Hunting authority==
[[Image:Samuel Baker chased by an elephant.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Explorer and big game hunter Samuel Baker chased by an elephant.]]
Baker lived as a reputed [[Victorian era|Victorian]] [[Nimrod]] and was a milestone in the history of modern hunting through his works and deeds. He was proud of his British heritage and was an advocate of the virtues of his nation, and a fighter against slavery in Northern Uganda at Fort Patiko.{{Cn|date=December 2024}} [[Image:BakerRhinoBuff.jpg|thumb|210px|right|Sir Samuel Baker in hunting attire with trophies of rhino and buffalo.]]
An acclaimed sportsman, he likely started hunting in the Scottish Highlands; his skills were renowned, and he once gave a demonstration to friends in Scotland of how he could, with dogs, successfully hunt down a stag armed only with a knife, he did the same with the large boars in the jungles of Ceylon. He hunted consistently until his last years, in Europe, Asia, Africa and North America.

Baker forged his skills chasing [[Asian elephants]] and [[Sambar (deer)|sambar]] deer in Ceylon,<ref>{{cite book|author=Baker, SW|title=The rifle and the hound in Ceylon|publisher=Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, London|year=1854|url=https://archive.org/details/rifleandhoundin00bakegoog}}</ref> a place where [[Rowland Ward]]'s records account him for some of the world's largest [[wild boar]] trophies. He travelled looking for sport in Asia Minor in 1860, in Scotland in 1869 for [[red deer|red stag]], in the Rocky Mountains in 1881 downing [[elk]], [[grizzly]] and [[American Bison|buffalo]]. In 1886, he was in the French Alps, looking for [[brown bear]] and many times in India in 1885 and 1887–1889 pursuing tigers and [[blackbuck]].
His most memorable cynegetic (hunting-related) exploits remained the episodes in Africa and Ceylon, where he returned again towards the end of his life in 1887. He also visited for sport, [[Transylvania]] for bears, Serbia for wild boars, Hungary for deer, Cyprus in 1879, China and Japan.

Baker left a wealth of study in the science of hunting firearms and ballistics, and accounts as one of the world's few hunters that used the [[two bore|two bore rifle]], the world's largest gun calibre for the purpose.  He described in great detail his observations of the animal world, account in which, his book ''Wild Beasts And Their Ways (1890)'' ranks highest.

In 1863, the German zoologist [[Theodor von Heuglin]] named a subspecies of [[Roan antelope]] in his honour: ''Hippotragus e. bakeri'' or Baker's antelope. In Sri Lanka, [[Baker's Falls]] bears his name, and in 1906 [[Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi]], named [[Mount Baker (Uganda)|Mount Baker]] in his honour while in the [[Rwenzori Mountains]] of Uganda.

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