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  2. Boar hunting - Wikipedia

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    A 14th-century depiction of boar hunting with hounds. Boar hunting is the practice of hunting wild boar, feral pigs, warthogs, and peccaries.Boar hunting was historically a dangerous exercise due to the tusked animal's ambush tactics as well as its thick hide and dense bones rendering them difficult to kill with premodern weapons.

  3. Boar hunter (Hermitage Museum) - Wikipedia

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    The Boar hunter from the Hermitage Museum is a set of two symmetrical gold repoussé belt plaques depicting a nomad horserider hunting a boar with a bow. [1] The plaques are dated to the 3rd-1st centuries BCE, [ 2 ] or even earlier to the 5th-4th centuries BCE. [ 1 ]

  4. Bald Mountain Recreation Area - Wikipedia

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    The Bald Mountain State Recreation Area was also home to the only recreational facilities designed by world-renowned architect Gunnar Birkerts.Known by the name Lower Trout Lake Bathhouse Complex and Contact Station, as the buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the complex included five Mid-Century Modern resources, located on two separate land parcels in the Trout ...

  5. A View to a Kill: Tagging Along on a Tuscan Boar Hunt - AOL

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  6. Hunting in Russia - Wikipedia

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    Though the Russian Orthodox clergy once disapproved the hunting, these persons were authorized to eat and feed their horses, hounds and falcons on others' account or even demand participation in hunting. [2] The Russian imperial hunts evolved from hunting traditions of early Russian rulers (Grand Princes and Tsars), under the influence of ...

  7. Bear spear - Wikipedia

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    A bear or boar spear from Germany or Austria, c. 1425-50 Bear hunt. A bear spear was a medieval type of spear used in hunting for bears and other large animals. The sharpened head of a bear spear was enlarged and usually took the form of a bay leaf. Right under the head there was a short crosspiece that helped fix the spear in the body of an ...

  8. Wild boar - Wikipedia

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    The wild boar (Sus scrofa), also known as the wild swine, [4] common wild pig, [5] Eurasian wild pig, [6] or simply wild pig, [7] is a suid native to much of Eurasia and North Africa, and has been introduced to the Americas and Oceania. The species is now one of the widest-ranging mammals in the world, as well as the most widespread suiform. [5]

  9. Boar–pig hybrid - Wikipedia

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    Boarpig hybrid is a hybridized offspring of a cross between the Eurasian wild boar (Sus scrofa scrofa) and any domestic pig (Sus scrofa domesticus). Feral hybrids exist throughout Eurasia , the Americas , Australia, and in other places where European settlers imported wild boars to use as game animals .