Hunting
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| '''Hunting''' is the practice of pursuing [[animal]]s for [[food]], [[recreation]], [[trade]] or for their products. In modern use, the term refers to regulated and legal hunting, as distinguished from [[poaching]], which is the killing, trapping or capture of animals contrary to law. Hunted animals are referred to as [[game (food)|game]] animals, and are usually large [[mammals]] or migratory [[birds]]. | '''Hunting''' is the practice of pursuing [[animal]]s for [[food]], [[recreation]], [[trade]] or for their products. In modern use, the term refers to regulated and legal hunting, as distinguished from [[poaching]], which is the killing, trapping or capture of animals contrary to law. Hunted animals are referred to as [[game (food)|game]] animals, and are usually large [[mammals]] or migratory [[birds]]. | ||
| - | By definition, hunting strictly speaking, excludes the killing - though similar techniques may be used - of individual protected animals, such as [[bears]] which have become dangerous to humans, as well as the killing of non-game animals, [[Domestication|domestic animals]], or [[vermin]] as a means of [[pest control]]. Hunting can be a component of modern [[wildlife management]], for example to help maintain a population of healthy animals within an environment's ecological [[carrying capacity]]. In the United States, wildlife managers are frequently part of hunting regulatory and licensing bodies, where they help to set rules on the number, manner and conditions in which game may be selected for culling. | + | == See also == |
| - | The pursuit, capture and release, or capture to eat of [[fish]] is called [[fishing]], which is not commonly categorized as a kind of hunting, although many hunters may also fish. [[Trapping (Animal)|Trapping]] is also usually considered a separate activity. Neither is it considered hunting to pursue animals without intent to take them, as in [[wildlife]] [[photography]] or [[birdwatching]]. The practice of ''hunting'' for [[plant]]s or [[mushrooms]] is a colloquial term for [[hunter-gatherer|gathering]]. | + | *[[Wild Hunt]] |
| + | *[[Taxidermy]] | ||
| + | *''[[The Most Dangerous Game]]'' | ||
| + | *[[Human hunting]] | ||
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Hunting is the practice of pursuing animals for food, recreation, trade or for their products. In modern use, the term refers to regulated and legal hunting, as distinguished from poaching, which is the killing, trapping or capture of animals contrary to law. Hunted animals are referred to as game animals, and are usually large mammals or migratory birds.
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