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  2. Human hunting - Wikipedia

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    Some accounts of early human violence associate the development of warfare – aggression against humans – with the practice of hunting game. [9] [10]In 2016, Daniel Wright, senior lecturer in tourism at the University of Central Lancashire, wrote a paper on the possible future of tourism where he discussed how the hunting of the poor ("hunting humans") could become a hobby of the super-rich ...

  3. The Most Dangerous Game - Wikipedia

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    The story is inspired by the big-game hunting safaris in Africa and South America that were particularly fashionable among wealthy Americans in the 1920s. [ 5 ] The story has been adapted numerous times , most notably as the 1932 RKO Pictures film The Most Dangerous Game , starring Joel McCrea , Leslie Banks and Fay Wray , [ 6 ] and for a 1943 ...

  4. Headhunting - Wikipedia

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    Digital painting of a Mississippian-era priest, with a ceremonial flint mace and a severed head, based on a repousse copper plate.. Headhunting is the practice of hunting a human and collecting the severed head after killing the victim, although sometimes more portable body parts (such as ear, nose, or scalp) are taken instead as trophies.

  5. List of Alien vs. Predator novels - Wikipedia

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    After the colony of Ryushi was destroyed, Machiko desired a life of hunting and honour, connecting with and coming to be seen as an honorary member of the Predator species, formally known as Da'dtou-di ("small knife"), "The Human Predator", while hunting the xenomorph species across the galaxy, and coming into conflict with "Shorty", a ruthless ...

  6. Hunting - Wikipedia

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    Beyond Fair Chase: The Ethic and Tradition of Hunting, a book by Jim Posewitz, describes fair chase: "Fundamental to ethical hunting is the idea of fair chase. This concept addresses the balance between the hunter and the hunted. It is a balance that allows hunters to occasionally succeed while animals generally avoid being taken." [83]

  7. Blooding (hunting) - Wikipedia

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    Blooding is the practice of smearing an animal's blood on the face of the person who killed the animal while hunting.An article on blooding in the British royal family says "Spreading blood on a person’s face is an ancient ritual performed to celebrate a hunter’s first successful kill."

  8. Persistence hunting - Wikipedia

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    Humans are some of the best long distance runners in the animal kingdom; [6] some hunter gatherer tribes practice this form of hunting into the modern era. [7] [8] [9] Homo sapiens have the proportionally longest legs of all known human species, [3] [10] [11] but all members of genus Homo have cursorial (limbs adapted for running) adaptions not seen in more arboreal hominids such as ...

  9. The Naked Ape - Wikipedia

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    The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal is a 1967 book by English zoologist and ethologist Desmond Morris that looks at humans as a species and compares them to other animals. The Human Zoo , a follow-up book by Morris that examined the behaviour of people in cities, was published in 1969.