The term “hunting” is used in the United States and internationally to refer to both hunting and shooting. In the United Kingdom also Western Europe, trapping refers to capturing wild animals using hounds that hunt by smell, whereas shooting refers to the pastime of catching small game and game birds with a rifle. The hounds make the kill in fox hunting. Also, see falconry. Hunting was a requirement for early people. The quarry contributed food plus clothes of the skins also tool material from the bones, horns, and hooves. Archaeological data from the past and observations of primitive civilizations now reveal a pervasive interest in and inventiveness in hunting tactics. According to the terrain, these changed according to the landscape, and the animal hunted, the hunters’ creativity and invention, and the materials and technology at their disposal. Weapons ranged in complexity and effectiveness from sticks and stones used to kill birds and small game to specially shaped clubs and throwing sticks such as the African knobkerry, Upper Nile from bash, and Australian boomerang; to spears ranging from pointed sticks to those with a separate foreshaft, usually barbed, and armed with heads of sharpened stone, bone, or metamorphic stone. Except for Australia, bows and arrows were standard among early hunters and were resurrected by contemporary hunters in the nineteenth century. The blowpipe, or blowgun, is one of the hunter’s most lethal weapons, with its poisoned darts. To conceal the early hunter, camouflages and disguises were employed, as well as nooses, traps, snares, trenches, decoys, baits, and poisons. Dogs were presumably trained to hunt as early as the Neolithic period, and they were eventually developed for specific talents. In the second millennium BCE, the horse was modified for hunting.
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