Hunting

Quote: "Hunting is the human practice of seeking, pursuing, capturing, or killing wildlife or feral animals."

Quote: "The most common reasons for humans to hunt are to exploit the animal's body for meat and useful animal products, for recreation/taxidermy, or for ecological conservation against overpopulation and invasive species."

Quote: "Removing predators dangerous to humans or domestic animals, eliminating pests and nuisance animals that damage crops/livestock/poultry or spread diseases, for trade/tourism, or for ecological conservation against overpopulation and invasive species."

Quote: "Recreationally hunted species are generally referred to as the game."

Quote: "A person participating in a hunt is a hunter or (less commonly) huntsman."

Quote: "A natural area used for hunting is called a game reserve."

Quote: "An experienced hunter who helps organize a hunt and/or manage the game reserve is known as a gamekeeper."

Quote: "Hunting activities by humans arose in Homo erectus or earlier, in the order of millions of years ago."

Quote: "Hunting has become deeply embedded in various human cultures and was once an important part of rural economies—classified by economists as part of primary production alongside forestry, agriculture, and fishery."

Quote: "Modern regulations distinguish lawful hunting activities from illegal poaching, which involves the unauthorised and unregulated killing, trapping, or capture of animals."

Quote: "Regulated hunting can be a necessary component of modern wildlife management, for example to help maintain a healthy proportion of animal populations within an environment's ecological carrying capacity."

Quote: "Excessive hunting has heavily contributed to the endangerment, extirpation and extinction of many animals."

Quote: "Some animal rights and anti-hunting activists regard hunting as a cruel, perverse and unnecessary blood sport."

Quote: "Certain hunting practices, such as canned hunts and ludicrously paid/bribed trophy tours, are considered unethical and exploitative even by some hunters."

Quote: "Marine mammals such as whales and pinnipeds are also targets of hunting, both recreationally and commercially."

Quote: "The pursuit, harvesting or catch and release of fish and aquatic cephalopods and crustaceans is called fishing."

Quote: "It is not considered hunting to pursue animals without intent to kill them, as in wildlife photography, birdwatching, or scientific-research activities which involve tranquilizing or tagging of animals."

Quote: "The practices of netting or trapping insects and other arthropods for trophy collection, or the foraging or gathering of plants and mushrooms, are also not regarded as hunting."

Quote: "Skillful tracking and acquisition of an elusive target has caused the word hunt to be used in the vernacular as a metaphor for searching and obtaining something."

Quote: "As in 'treasure hunting', 'bargain hunting', 'hunting for votes', and even 'hunting down' corruption and waste."