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Chapters: Cockfight, Hunting, Hare Coursing, Recreational Fishing, Spider Fighting, Blood Sport, Westminster Pit, Fox Tossing, Cock Throwing, Jackal Coursing, Octopus Wrestling, Waterloo Cup, Rat-Catcher, Dog-Baiting, Hyena-Baiting, Insect Fighting. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 103. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Hunting is the practice of pursuing living animals (usually wildlife) for food, recreation, or trade. In present-day use, the term refers to lawful hunting, as distinguished from poaching, which is the killing, trapping or capture of the hunted species contrary to applicable law. The species which are hunted are referred to as game and are usually mammals and migratory or non-migratory gamebirds. Hunting can also involve the elimination of vermin, as a means of pest control to prevent diseases caused by overpopulation. Hunting advocates state that hunting can be a necessary component of modern wildlife management, for example to help maintain a population of healthy animals within an environment's ecological carrying capacity when natural checks such as predators are absent. In the United States, wildlife managers are frequently part of hunting regulatory and licensing bodies, where they help to set rules on the number, manner and conditions in which game may be hunted. The pursuit, capture and release, or capture for food of fish is called fishing, which is not commonly categorized as a form of hunting. Trapping is also usually considered a separate activity. Neither is it considered hunting to pursue animals without intent to kill them, as in wildlife photography or birdwatching. The practice of hunting for plants or mushrooms is a colloquial term for foraging or gathering. The aspects of skillful tracking and acquisition of an elusive target in the pursuit of game ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=38791 ... Read more

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Title: Sights set on racing: "lure coursing" is a thrilling sport for running and chasing fanatics.(GOOD SPORTS)
Author: Terry Long
Publication: Whole Dog Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2009
Publisher: Belvoir Media Group, LLC
Volume: 12Issue: 9Page: 18(4)

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles!Jackal Coursing involves the pursuit of jackals (usually the golden jackal and black-backed jackal) with dogs. Jackal coursing was an occasional passtime for sportsmen in British India. English Foxhounds were usually imported to India for the purpose. Due to the comparatively hotter weather, jackal hounds were rarely long lived. Indian jackals were not hunted often in this manner, as they were slower than foxes and could scarcely outrun greyhounds after 200 yards. According to Thomas C. Jerdon, although jackals are easily pulled down by greyhounds and give an excellent run with foxhounds, they are nonetheless cunning animals which will sham death when caught, and will ferociously protect their packmates. ... Read more

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And The Various Rural Games And Amusements Of Great Britain And America. The full title of this work is Encyclopedia of Rural Sports: Consisting of Shooting, Hunting, Coursing, Fishing, Boating, Racing, Pedestrianism, Cricket, Base Ball, &c. and the Various Games and Amusements of Great Britain and America.Reproduced here in facsimile is the first American edition, which was publishedby Porter and Coates, Philadelphia, and which is an expansion of the British edition.In his Introduction, Walsh broadly defines "rural sports" as inclusive of nearly all outdoor pastimes.Perplexingly little can be learned about J. H. Walsh and his voluminous compendium.He is conspicuously absent from the British Dictionary of National Biography and other major references.Nor is the Encyclopedia ... noted in John C. Phillips' comprehensive American Game Mammals and Birds, A Catalogue of Books, 1582 to 1925, Sport, Natural History, and Conservation (1930). We do know that Walsh was English, that he lived from 1810 to 1888, and was bewilderingly knowledgeable about English outdoor sports, many of which he was proficient in, during the 19th century.His work, astonishing in scope and detail, is equally enigmatic.--Henry M. Reeves. ... Read more

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