Historical context :Hunting, also called "hunting", is an ancestral hunting method which consists of pursuing a wild animal (traditionally deer, wild boar, roe deer, fox or hare) with a pack of hounds, until its exhaustion and its grip. Only dogs hunt, thanks to their sense of smell and their predatory instinct. The role of the man, generally cavalier for the occasion, consists in controlling them and following them.Hunting with hounds is practiced in France, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Italy and Portugal (crew of Santo Huberto). In France, stags, roe deer, wild... |