Talk:Hunting

I came across a moron who claimed that hunting never plunged a spear into a prey, so it seems important to include survival hunting for teaching

Ancient survival hunting vs leisure hunting

As farming & herding started, ancient era's survival hunting trying to feed the entire tribe disappeared. Leisure hunting is different from the ancient hunting like how fishing with a fishing rod is different from the actual fishing done by the fishers at seas. For fishing, both survival version (life occupation) & leisure version (hobby) are going on today. For hunting, only the leisure version exists today as the ancient survival version was dropped after farming & herding got started.

The main difference is that leisure hunting uses only bow or gun (other than multi-purposed hunting knife) whilst ancient survival hunting used any weapon including melee weapons which were used both for throwing & for melee usage such as slashing & plunging. Melee weapons were used in survival hunting even after bows were invented (in fact, up to the bronze age).

Quoting from BBC on professor Trenton Holliday, "professor Trenton Holliday can identify a clue in the BBC Neanderthal - he was much stronger on the right side than on the left, and his right forearm was particularly powerful, demonstrating a very powerful grip. To see how this muscle development might have related to hunting, Professor Steve Churchill, from Duke University, US, carried out another experiment. By fitting a metal pole with stress sensors, he could determine what force each arm was delivering when the pole was thrust into a pad. It turns out that this action could explain the muscle development identified in the skeleton. So Neanderthal was an ambush hunter; waiting in a forest for his prey to stray close, and then attacking with a thrusting spear. Neanderthal was possibly the most carnivorous form of human ever to have lived."

References

I don't know about it being "most commonly done by humans"

The very first paragraph says "Hunting is most commonly done by humans to harvest useful animal products (meat, fur/hide, bone/tusks, horn/antler, etc), for recreation/taxidermy (see trophy hunting), to remove predators dangerous to humans or domestic animals (e.g. wolf hunting), to eliminate pests and nuisance animals that damage crops/livestock/poultry or spread diseases (see varminting), for trade/tourism (see safari), or for ecological conservation against overpopulation and invasive species (see culling)." and I mean, yeah, sure, if you say all of that you could even say it's exclusive to humans because, well, we're the only ones who do/care about any of that. However, it was written as "hunting is most commonly done by /humans/" which implies it's comparing how common it is for other species to hunt compared to humans, in which case the statement becomes almost comically false.

Unless I'm misreading it and it's saying "it's most common for humans to hunt for these reasons"... in which case, ignore me. Kurokubi (talk) 13:39, 1 May 2021 (UTC)

Sensible, indeed.  Done Rasnaboy (talk) 16:40, 1 May 2021 (UTC)

Hunting

Question no.1 Hunting is also known as_______(shooting/poaching) 2409:4053:208D:6833:B258:A5E5:75AF:D172 (talk) 11:22, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

Neither, see below. And let's not forget edibility. Bringingthewood (talk) 05:14, 15 June 2023 (UTC)

History

Hunting is the practice of seeking, pursuing and capturing or killing wildlife or feral animals. The most common reasons for humans to hunt are to harvest useful animal products, for recreation/taxidermy, 2409:4053:2D1D:41BC:3DB8:F151:1AFA:CD9 (talk) 09:55, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

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