Game (hunting)
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Game or quarry is any
By continent and region
The range of animal
In some countries, game is classified, including legal classifications with respect to licenses required, as either "small game" or "large game". A single small game licence may cover all small game species and be subject to yearly bag limits. Large game are often subject to individual licensing where a separate permit is required for each individual animal taken (tags).
Africa
In some parts of Africa, wild animals hunted for their meat are called bushmeat; see that article for more detailed information on how this operates within the economy (for personal consumption and for money) and the law (including overexploitation and illegal imports). Animals hunted for bushmeat include, but are not limited to:
- Various species of antelope, including duikers
- Various species of
- Rodents like porcupines or cane rats
Some of these animals are endangered or otherwise protected, and thus it is illegal to hunt them.
In Africa, animals hunted for their pelts or ivory are sometimes referred to as big game.
Also see the legal definition of game in Eswatini.[2]
South Africa
South Africa is a famous destination for game hunting, with its large biodiversity and therefore impressive variety of game species. Many creatures have returned to former areas from which they were once taken as a result of being killed for big-game hunting. Commonly hunted species include:
South Africa also has 62 species of gamebirds, including
- Helmeted guineafowl
- Greywing partridge
- Redwing partridge
- Orange River partridge
- Cape francolin
- Natal francolin
- Swainson's francolin
- Common quail
- Harlequin quail
- Namaqua sandgrouse
- Double-banded sandgrouse
- Burchell's sandgrouse
- White-faced duck
- Egyptian goose
- Yellow-billed duck
- Red-billed teal
- Cape shoveler
- Southern pochard
- Knob-billed duck
- Spur-winged goose
Oceania
Australia
In Australia, game includes:
- sambar
- Duck
- Magpie geese
- Dingo
- European rabbit
- Feral cat
- Red fox
- Wild pig
- Wild goat
- Kangaroo
- Emu
- Crocodile (Saltwater and Freshwater)
- Feral buffalo
- Banteng ("Scrub bull")
- Feral camel
- Australian feral horse
- Quail
- Wild bull
- Blackbuck
- Feral donkey
- Feral dog
New Zealand
Game in New Zealand includes:
North America
Canada and the United States
In the United States and Canada, white-tailed deer are the most commonly hunted big game. Other game species include:
Reptiles and amphibians
Birds (upland game birds)
- Dove
- Chukar partridge
- Grouse
- Gray partridge
- Ring-necked pheasant
- Ptarmigan
- Quail
- Turkey
Birds (shorebirds)
Ungulates
Carnivores
Asia
People's Republic of China
In the PRC there is a special
Russia
Europe
United Kingdom
In the UK game is defined in law by the Game Act 1831. It is illegal to shoot game on Sundays or at night. Other non-game birds that are hunted for food in the UK are specified under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. UK law defines game as including:
- Black grouse (No longer hunted due to decline in numbers)
- Red grouse
- Brown hare
- Rock ptarmigan
- Grey and red-legged partridges
- Common pheasant
Deer are not included in the definition, but similar controls provided to those in the Game Act apply to deer (from the Deer Act 1991). Deer hunted in the UK are:
- Red deer
- Roe deer
- Fallow deer
- Sika deer
- Muntjac deer
- Chinese water deer
- and hybrids of these deer
Other animals which are hunted in the UK include:
- teal, northern pintail and common pochard
- Goose, including greylag goose, Canada goose and pink-footed goose
- Wood pigeon
- Cuckoo
- Eurasian woodcock
- Common snipe
- Rabbit
- Eurasian golden plover
- Corncrake
Iceland
In Iceland game includes:
Nordic countries
Game in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland includes:
- national pastime.
- Fallow deer
- Red deer
- Roe deer
- Mountain hare
- Boar in Denmark and southern Sweden. (Once hunted to extinction, boars were re-introduced in the late 20th century and are now considered a pestby farmers, but an asset by hunters.)
- Rock ptarmigan
- Willow ptarmigan
- Mallard
- Auk in Norway
- Black grouse
- Woodcock
- Common pheasant
- Common wood pigeon
- Goose
Poland
In Poland, legal game includes:[3]
Big game
Small game
- Fox
- Common raccoon dog
- Badger
- European pine marten
- Beech marten
- American mink
- Polecat
- (American) raccoon
- Muskrat
- European hare
- European rabbit
- Hazel grouse
- Common pheasant
- Grey partridge
- Greylag goose
- Bean goose
- Greater white-fronted goose
- Mallard
- Eurasian teal
- Common pochard
- Tufted duck
- Common wood pigeon
- Eurasian woodcock
- Eurasian coot
Preparation
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Game meat is typically taken from a wild animal that has been shot with a
Traditionally, game meat was hung until "high" or "gamey", that is, approaching a state of decomposition.[4] However, this adds to the risk of contamination. Small game can be processed essentially intact, after gutting and skinning or defeathering (by species). Small animals are ready for cooking, although they may be disjointed first. Large game must be processed by techniques commonly practiced by commercial butchers.
Cooking
Generally game is cooked in the same ways as farmed meat..
Safety
The Norwegian Food Safety Authority considers that children, pregnant women, fertile-aged women, and people with high blood pressure should not consume game shot with lead-based ammunition more than once a month. Children who often eat such game might develop a slightly lower IQ, as lead influences the development of the central nervous system.[8]
See also
- Animal trapping
- Big game hunting
- British Association for Shooting and Conservation
- Bushfood
- Bushmeat
- Endangered species
- Fishing
- Game fish
- Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust
- Game drive system
- Game preservation
- Hunter-gatherer
- Hunting horn
- Hunting and shooting in the United Kingdom
- Hunting
- Legislation on hunting with dogs
- Ornithology
- Overfishing
- Persistence hunting
- Taxidermy, the preserving of an animal's body for the purpose of display or study
- Waterfowl hunting
- Wildlife
- Yewei
References
- ^ "Game | Definition, Wild Animals, & Preparation | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2023-09-14.
- ^ The Game Act Archived 2004-06-18 at the Wayback Machine Swaziland Legislation
- ^ "Rozporządzenie Ministra Środowiska z dnia 11 marca 2005 r. w sprawie ustalenia listy gatunków zwierząt łownych" [Regulation of the Minister of Environment of 11 March 2005 regarding specifying list of game species]. Regulation of 11 March 2005 (PDF) (in Polish). 2005-03-22. Retrieved 2022-07-27 – via Sejm (isap.sejm.gov.pl).
- ^ Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd edition, s.v. high adj. A.II.12d, gamey 1a
- ^ "Game-to-Eat". 2007-05-02.
- ^ "About Game Meat". 2007-05-19. Archived from the original on 2007-05-19. Retrieved 2011-10-17.
- ^ Venison Direct to Your Door Highland Game
- ^ "Mattilsynet: – Barn kan få lavere IQ av storvilt" (in Norwegian). NRK.no. 29 August 2013. Retrieved August 30, 2013.
External links
- Media related to Game (hunting) at Wikimedia Commons