Hunting Facts for Kids

Boar hunting, tacuinum sanitatis casanatensis (XIV century)

Hunting is going out to find and kill animals. Animals, and some humans, hunt for food. Many places have rules that limit hunting. 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.

Hunting can be good by keeping animal populations from getting too high. Hunting too much can kill off species of animals, making them extinct. Hunting once made the dodo, a bird, become extinct.

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Hunter on a tree or a ground stand during a driven hunt in Finland
Bushmen hunter in Botswana
Bowhunter in Utah, US
Professional deerstalker standing over a downed red stag in Scotland
Hunter carrying a reindeer in Greenland
Saharan rock art with prehistoric archers
Inuit hunting walrus, 1999
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
Artemis with a Hind, a Roman copy of an Ancient Greek sculpture, c. 325 BC, by Leochares
An example of a Goguryeo tomb mural of hunting, middle of the first millennium
Nobleman in hunting costume with his servant following the scent of a stag, 14th century
Hunting Companions, Dutch 19th-century painting featuring two dogs, a shotgun and a game bag
Mughal aristocrats hunting a blackbuck alongside an Asiatic cheetah, 1812
A group of Sikhs hunting (Unknown Pahari artist, 18th century)
A tiger hunt at Jhajjar, Rohtak District, Punjab, c. 1820
Ladies hunting in the 15th century
Tapestry with a hunting scene, late 16th century
Explorer and big game hunter Samuel Baker chased by an elephant, illustration from 1890
Weeks Edwin's painting Departure for the Hunt, c. 1885
A Shikar party in Mandalay, Burma, soon after the conclusion of the Third Anglo-Burmese War in 1886, when Burma was annexed to British India
Snowden Slights with retriever and shotgun around 1910, 'the last of Yorkshire's Wildfowlers'
Hunting camp with dressed deer at Schoodic Lake, Maine, in 1905
A man target practicing for the hunting seasons
The coypu is hunted as a pest in Louisiana.
Riders gather for a dingo drive in Morven, Queensland, 1936
American bison being chased off a cliff as seen and painted by Alfred Jacob Miller, c. 1860
Master or whipper-in and fox hounds drawing a wood. Hunting in Yorkshire, northern England, in 2005, on the last day of fully legal, proper, fox hunting.
Trophy collection of the Princely Family of Liechtenstein at Úsov Château, the Czech Republic
Chatelherault, built by William Adam in 1743 as the Duke of Hamilton's hunting lodge
Marshal's Cabin, a former hunting lodge in Loppi, Finland
Right: .40 S&W round with hollow-point bullet, Left: expanded bullet of the same calibre with exposed lead core
Cage trap (live trap) for cheetahs on a farm in Namibia
Gustave Courbet, La Curée, chasse au chevreuil dans les forêts du Grand Jura (The Quarry, deer hunt in the woods of the Grand Jura)^[fr], 1857
Albert Gleizes, La Chasse (The Hunt), 1911, oil on canvas depicting a scene in the Cubist style of hunting by horseback in France
Hunting of deer and ibex, Minoan larnax, prepalatial period
Hunting in the papyrus thicket, mural from a tomb in Thebes, Egypt, before 1350 BC
Man hunting a boar, Roman mosaic, 4th century AD
Illustration from the falconry book De arte venandi cum avibus written by Emperor Frederick II, c. 1245
Giovanni di Francesco (?), La caccia, c. 1455, tempera on wood, detail
Paolo Uccello, Caccia notturna (The Hunt in the Forest), c. 1475
Vittore Carpaccio, Caccia in laguna (Hunt in the Lagoon), c. 1490
Lucas Cranach the Elder, A Stag Hunt with the Elector Friedrich the Wise, 1529
Peter Paul Rubens, Hippopotamus and Crocodile Hunt, c. 1615
Peter Paul Rubens, Tiger and Lion Hunt, 1618
Peter Paul Rubens, A Forest at Dawn with a Deer Hunt, c. 1635
Charles André van Loo, Halte de chasse (Halt During the Hunt), 1737
Francisco Goya, The Quail Shoot, 1775
Gustave Courbet, Biche morte (Dead hind), 1857
Gustave Courbet, The Hunt Breakfast, 1858
Eugène Delacroix, Chasse au lion (Lion Hunt), 1858
Gustave Courbet, Après la chasse (After the Hunt), 1859
Édouard Manet, Portrait de M. Pertuiset, le chasseur de lions (Mister Pertuiset, The Lion Hunter)^[fr], 1881

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