Despite fox hunting being banned by the Hunting Act in 2004, Boxing Day remains the biggest hunt of the year for most hunts in the UK by use of scent drag trails instead of live quarry.

Double-barreled rifles are typically intended for African big-game hunts where the animals are dangerous, ranges are short, and speed is of the essence.

Names of those Masurs supporting Polish side were published in German newspapers, and their photos presented in German shops ; afterwards a regular hunts were organised after them by German militias which terrorized Polish population At least 3, 000 Warmian and Masurian activists who were engaged for Polish side had to flee the region out of fear of their lives At the same time German police engaged in active surveillance of Polish minority and attacks against Polish activists Before the plebiscite Poles started to flee the region to escape the German harassment and terror

Thanks to the former Soviet system of game preserves and the efforts of the Society for Nature Conservation and the Academy of Sciences, flora and fauna receive some protection in the republic ; however, " hard-currency hunts " by wealthy Western and Arab businesspeople already are depleting animals on preserves.

In “ Lazzi of the Cat ” the Zanni mimics the actions of a cat, demonstrating how the cat hunts for wild birds or how the cat cleans himself by scratching his ears with his feet and cleaning his body with his mouth.

Capable of seating 50, 000 spectators, the Colosseum was used for gladiatorial contests and public spectacles such as mock sea battles, animal hunts, executions, re-enactments of famous battles, and dramas based on Classical mythology.

Animal hunts continued until at least 523, when Anicius Maximus celebrated his consulship with some venationes, criticised by King Theodoric the Great for their high cost.

During a time of witch hunts and strict counter measures by the Roman Catholic Church, it was unheard of for women to live on their own.

Releases and escapes from unlicensed farms ( established because of increased demand for boar meat as an alternative to pork ), however, continued to bolster feral populations and by mid-2008 licensed hunts had to be expanded to the states of Santa Catarina and São Paulo.

Such licensed hunts were, however, forbidden in 2010 by IBAMA, which argued the necessity of additional studies for devising a strategy of pest control for boars.

In mid-summer Arapahos traveled into the Parks region of Colorado to hunt mountain herds, returning onto the Plains in late summer to autumn for ceremonies and for collective hunts of herds gathering for the rutting season.

In Ernest Hemingway's novel Islands in the Stream the main character Thomas Hudson captains a Q-ship for the US Navy around Cuba as he hunts the survivors of a sunken German U-boat.

Animal bones from Salibiya I ( 12, 300 – 10, 800 BP ) have been interpreted as evidence for communal hunts with nets.

Social predation allows some animals to organize hunts of creatures that would easily escape a single predator ; thus chimpanzees can prey upon colobus monkeys, and Harris's Hawks can cut off all possible escapes for a doomed rabbit.

Deciding to wait for the Communist witch hunts to end, he and his wife left for Europe: here he did a few films.

The 9. 3 × 62mm is also very popular in the rest of Europe for Big game, especially driven Big game hunts due to its effective stopping power on running game.

A pack of some seventy dogs are also kept on the grounds and are taken out for hunts twice weekly.

Some were evil and monstrous, responsible for bad hunts and broken tools.

Tseiqami hunts whales for its dinner out at sea, and sometimes helped heroic ancestors build houses by placing giant cedar beams for them.

This is a very wary species of open or lightly wooded country, in which it hunts small mammals and similar terrestrial prey.

This bird is kept as a pet by Amerindians, since it is easily tamed, hunts snakes, and is a very efficient sentinel, with its unmissable alarm call.

Today in 2010 there are many hunters across the USA adopting this courageous intelligent breed as a hunt companion because of their ability to switch between various hunt disciplines and their intelligence and aim to please attitude which is very typical of the breed, to give you some idea as to the true intelligence of this breed, not a pointing breed but yet we have a many reports of hunters using these dogs on upland bird hunts with such remarks of incredible steadiness when on point making it real easy to shoot over.

Examples of convention activities include word games, trivia games, hidden puzzles ( which must be found before they can be solved ), local field trips to places of NPL interest, library trivia hunts, and an " extravaganza " ( a multi-stage puzzlehunt that requires team effort to solve ).

For the same reasons of the sword hunts, later shoguns discouraged the production of guns so that, by the 1840s, it was a lost art.

The SRA panic repeated many of the features of historical moral panics and conspiracy theories such as the blood libel against Jews by Apion in the 30s AD, Christians in the Roman empire, later allegations of a Jewish conspiracy alleging the killing of Christian babies and desecration of the Eucharist, the witch hunts of the 16th and 17th centuries.

These ceremonies were performed before major events, such as semi-annual buffalo hunts, as well as before many other important activities of the year, such as sowing seeds in the spring and harvesting in the fall.

He is familiar with many exotic poisons and tranquilizers, which he often uses during his hunts.

The dramatic and blood curdling accounts of Histoire were incorporated as a primary source into many other volumes, notably Joseph Hansen's Quellen und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte des Hexenwahns und der Hexenverfolung im Mittelalter (" Sources and investigations regarding the history of the witch craze and the witch hunts in the Middle Ages "), which in turn became the source for many other works.

The amphitheatre seated as many as 10, 000 people and was used for public meetings, theatre, gladiatorial combats, and animal hunts.

Up through the 19th century, many North Americans participated in the tradition of Christmas " side hunts ", in which they competed at how many birds they could kill, regardless of whether they had any use for the carcasses and of whether the birds were beneficial, beautiful, or rare.

Since the hunts began, more grey Caribbean reef sharks ( Carcharhinus perezii ) are noticeable on many dives.

While early hunts involved a few dozen linear puzzles, recent hunts have increased in complexity, some involving as many as 130 distinct puzzles arranged in rounds, hidden rounds, and metapuzzles.

During the years of the witch hunts, many believed that witches worshipped the Devil and paid him homage by kissing his posterior.

There were also seasonal and sometimes ritual hunts for bear, deer, caribou, gophers, geese, and the many other fowl in Lower Kootenay country.

Despite this, many fox hunts continue to use terriers on a regular basis.

A few hunts switched to hunting mink or coypu, but many hunts ceased to exist altogether.

Teenagers have the opportunity to take part in a large Treasure / Scavenger Hunt ( Kinigi toy Chamenou Thisavrou ) which takes place in all of Moschato and lasts for the entire two weeks, engaging into games, singing contests, city wide treasure hunts, mascarade competitions and with the chance of winning prizes, trips and many other gifts.

In the cold war atmosphere of the 1950s, when witch hunts later called the Lavender Scare were ruining the lives of many gay men and lesbian women in the United States, the parallel political atmosphere in Britain was virulently anti-homosexual.

In prime physical shape, he has escaped certain death many times, but a local drug boss allies with the Friends and hunts him, and he gets a plea from Kenji for help, so he returns to Japan.

The review said that although the movie is meant as a cautionary tale about the dangers of witch hunts it deals with many other issues, including the pregnancy of a single woman, the " corrosive effect of unfettered capitalism, the human cost of the Korean war, among others.

The Pequod is not unlike Ahab in this respect, since many of the rest of these missing elements have been replaced by the bones of the whales she hunts.

All the foxhounds were bred to be white, although following the fairly recent amalgamation of the Curre and Llangibby hunts this characteristic has largely faded out ; many of the dogs are still white but there are some coloured beagle-like dogs too.