Hunting
Hunting is going out to find and kill animals. Animals and some humans, hunt for food. People have hunted at least since the stone age. They used spears, and now people mostly use guns and bows. Some people kill the animals for fur, to make clothes and shelter, or to decorate their homes, or to sell. Fox hunting is sometimes a sport.
Many places have rules that limit hunting. Hunting can be good by keeping animal populations from getting too high. Hunting too much, though, can kill off species of animals, making them extinct. Hunting once made the dodo, a bird, become extinct.
Before they invented herding people got meat by hunting. Boar hunting and fox hunting became became popular in early modern times. Another form of hunting is not to use guns, bows and arrows or spears, but by animal trapping.
Animal rights activists oppose to hunting. Anti-hunting laws (English Hunting Act 2004) strive to reduce hunting.
Gallery
Boar hunting, tacuinum sanitatis casanatensis (XIV century)
War-hunt outfit in yoruba land
Artemis with a Hind, a Roman copy of an Ancient Greek sculpture, by Leochares
Hunting Media
Hunter on a ground stand during a driven hunt in Finland
Bowhunter with a compound bow using a call
Professional deerstalker standing over a downed red stag in Scotland
Saharan rock art with prehistoric archers
Sharp flint piece from Bjerlev Hede in central Jutland. Dated around 12,500 BC and considered the oldest hunting tool from Denmark.
Ancient Greek black-figure pottery depicting the return of a hunter and his dog; made in Athens c. 540 BC, found in Rhodes
