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The dogs were used to track, capture, and hunt deer (pampas deer), and thus earned the name Pampas Deerhound (in Brazilian Portuguese "Veadeiro pampeano": veadeiro = deer-hound; pampeano = those who came from the pampas). It is still a widely preferred hunting companion to track other animals, such as wild boars.
A reunion between a dog and a human. There is a wide range of shared general and specific social skills between humans and dogs including functional and behavioural traits. Sociality, the ability to perform synchronized behaviour and complex constructive skills have each been previously displayed in both dogs and humans.
Non-human animals, and products made from them, are used to assist in hunting. Humans have used hunting dogs to help chase down animals such as deer, wolves, and foxes; [36] birds of prey from eagles to small falcons are used in falconry, hunting birds or mammals; [37] and tethered cormorants have been used to catch fish. [38]
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The land is cleared for human development, cattle ranching, agriculture, logging, and exotic tree plantations. [5] [16] [18] Habitat fragmentation and road accidents cause pudú deaths. They are taken from the wild as pets, as well as exported illegally. [10] [18] They are overhunted and killed for food by specially trained hunting dogs.
[citation needed] Hounds were used to pursue deer, wild boar, hares and foxes. [citation needed] However, in the late 1880s until the early 1900s, the nature conservation and animal protection movement in Germany started to form and began campaigning for legislation on animal welfare, including hunting. [2]