Hunting is when a person kills or traps any animal, or pursues it with the intent of doing so. Hunting all types of animals is most commonly done by humans for food, recreation, or trade. In our days, lawful hunting is different from poaching, which is the illegal killing, trapping or capture of the hunted species. The hunted species are referred to as game and are usually mammals and birds.
Hunting is also practiced forpest control. Hunting advocates state that hunting is a necessary factor of modern wildlife management, for example, to help protect a population of healthy animals within an environment 's ecological carrying capacity where natural threats such as predators are absent. However, hunting has also heavily contributed in putting in danger, uprooting and extinction of many animals.
The scenario, capture and release, or capture for food of fish is called fishing, which is not in the same category of hunting. It is also not considered hunting to pursue animals without intent to kill them, such as in wildlife photography or bird watching. Looking for food or gathering materials from plants and mushrooms is also considered different.
Witty tracking and acquisition of a wily target has caused the word hunt to be used in the vulgar way as a metaphor, like the treasure hunting, "bargain hunting", and even "hunting down corruption and waste".
People and animals have been hunting for a long time. So men and women have been hunting since the Stone Age. The oldest type of