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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Images for kids

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  Mughal aristocrats hunting a blackbuck alongside an Asiatic cheetah

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  A 19th-century Maratha hunting party from India

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  Velázquez's portrait of the Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand, Governor General of the Southern Netherlands, with his hunting dog and gun.

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  Saharan rock art

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  Inuit walrus hunters

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  Moche deer hunting scene, Larco Museum Collection, Lima, Peru

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  Ancient Greek black-figure pottery depicting the return of a hunter and his dog; made in Athens between 550–530 BCE, found in Rhodes

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  Artemis with a Hind, a Roman copy of an Ancient Greek sculpture, c. 325 BC, by Leochares

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  Sharp flint piece from Bjerlev Hede in central Jutland. Dated around 12,500 BC and considered the oldest hunting tool from Denmark

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  An example of a Goguryeo tomb mural of hunting

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  Ladies hunting in the 15th century

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  Tapestry with a hunting scene showing the coat of arms of Dymitr Chalecki, 16th century

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  Albert Gleizes, 1911, La Chasse (The Hunt), oil on canvas depicting a scene in the Cubist style of hunting by horseback in France

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  Hunting Companions, Dutch 19th-century painting featuring two dogs, a shotgun and a game bag

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  Weeks Edwin's painting Departure for the Hunt

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  A tiger hunt at Jhajjar, Rohtak District, Panjab

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  Nobleman in hunting costume with his servant following the scent of a stag, 14th century

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  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

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  Explorer and big game hunter Samuel Baker chased by an elephant

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  Hunting camp with dressed deer at Schoodic Lake, Maine, in 1905

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  a man target practicing for the hunting seasons

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  The Nutria is hunted as a pest in Louisiana.

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  Riders gather for a dingo drive in Morven, Queensland, 1936

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  American bison being chased off a cliff as seen and painted by Alfred Jacob Miller

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  Master or whipper-in and fox hounds drawing a wood. Hunting in Yorkshire, northern England, in 2005: the last day of fully legal, proper, fox hunting

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  Royal Liechtenstein trophy collection at Úsov Château, the Czech Republic

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  Chatelherault, built by William Adam in 1743 as the Duke of Hamilton's hunting lodge