Quote: "Hunting is the human practice of seeking, pursuing, capturing, or killing wildlife or feral animals."
Pursuing wild animals for food, sport or trophy, usually done with firearms or archery. regulated by local hunting regulations.
Hunting Ethics: The code of conduct and principles that govern ethical hunting practices, including principles of fair chase, responsible firearm use, and respect for wildlife and other hunters.
Hunting Safety: The best practices for ensuring the safety of yourself and others while hunting, including gun safety, tree stand safety, and wilderness survival skills.
Hunting Laws and Regulations: The laws and regulations that govern hunting activities, including licensing requirements, bag limits, and hunting seasons.
Hunting Gear and Equipment: The tools and equipment necessary for successful and safe hunting, including firearms, ammunition, archery equipment, camouflage clothing, and tree stands.
Hunting Techniques and Strategies: The different methods and strategies used for hunting various types of game, including scouting, calling, stalking, and still hunting.
Wilderness Navigation and Survival: The skills and knowledge necessary for navigating and surviving in the wilderness, including orienteering, map reading, and wilderness first aid.
Wildlife Biology and Behavior: Understanding the biology, behavior, and habitat of different game species, including their life cycles and feeding habits.
Habitat Conservation and Restoration: The methods and strategies used to preserve and restore natural habitats, including conservation programs, land management, and wetland restoration.
Wildlife Management: The methods and practices used to manage game populations, including habitat management, research, and population control.
Hunting Culture and History: The evolution of hunting practices and traditions, including the role of hunting in different cultures and societies throughout history.
Archery Hunting: Hunting with a bow and arrow, typically for big game animals.
Rifle Hunting: Hunting with a rifle, typically for big game animals or small game animals.
Bow Hunting: Hunting with a bow and arrow, typically for big game animals.
Waterfowl Hunting: Hunting for waterfowl, including ducks and geese, often takes place in wetland habitats.
Upland Game Bird Hunting: Hunting for upland game birds, such as pheasants, quail, or grouse.
Predator Hunting: Hunting for predators, such as coyotes, foxes, bobcats, or bears.
Big Game Hunting: Hunting for large animals, such as elk, deer, moose, bison, or bear.
Small Game Hunting: Hunting for small animals, such as rabbits, squirrels, or raccoons.
Trapping: Capturing animals using traps or snares, typically for their fur or as a means of population control.
Sport Fishing: Catching fish for sport or recreation, typically using a rod, reel, and various lures or bait.
Trophy Hunting: Hunting for the purpose of obtaining a prized animal or specimen, often for display purposes.
Crossbow Hunting: Hunting with a crossbow, typically for big game animals.
Black Powder Hunting: Hunting with firearms that use black powder, typically for big game animals.
Dog Hunting: Hunting with specially trained dogs, typically for upland game birds or small game animals.
Falconry: Hunting with trained birds of prey, typically for small game animals or birds.
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."