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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. Man-eating animal - Wikipedia

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    This does not include the scavenging of corpses, a single attack born of opportunity or desperate hunger, or the incidental eating of a human that the animal has killed in self-defense. However, all three cases (especially the last two) may habituate an animal to eating human flesh or to attacking humans , and may foster the development of man ...

  4. List of large carnivores known to prey on humans - Wikipedia

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    [1] An idiomatic (rather than ecological) definition is preferred here because although, statistically, attacks on humans by wild carnivores are an extremely rare cause of death—even in regions with high levels of human-wildlife interaction and relatively high absolute numbers of attacks [2] —the topic remains one of great fascination [3 ...

  5. 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.

  6. 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 ...

  7. Hunting - Wikipedia

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    Beagling is the use of beagles in hunting rabbits, and sometimes in hunting foxes. Beating uses human beaters to flush out game from an area or drive it into position. Stand hunting or blind hunting is waiting for animals from a concealed or elevated position, for example from tree stands, hunting blinds or other types of shooting stands.

  8. List of incidents of cannibalism - Wikipedia

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    In early 2024, a video went viral which showed a Haitian man taking a bite out of a human leg that was on fire. While social media users claimed the video showed a recent event during the ongoing Haitian unrest, it was in fact two years old and depicted an incident that occurred during a feud between two gangs in the Artibonite Valley region. [330]

  9. Blood sport - Wikipedia

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    Boxing A hare caught by two greyhounds. A blood sport or bloodsport is a category of sport or entertainment that involves bloodshed. [1] Common examples of the former include combat sports such as cockfighting and dog fighting, and some forms of hunting and fishing.