Hunting has been in practice since the age of homo erectus to fulfil the food and clothing requirements. With the onset of civilization, it became a necessity to maintain the availability of natural resources in wildlife by hunting overpopulation of predators or harmful animals. Hunting has been a standard of prestige and entertainment for many emperors and kings.
Today hunting is done for availing useful animal products like meat, bone, tusks, horn or antler. It is also done for gaming activities, for removing predators like wolves that can harm human beings, for the conservation of poultry or dairy farms by hunting predators or dangerous animals. Overhunting is checked by implementing specific hunting laws for Wildlife Conservation. Hunting is done with the help of specific weapons or tools used by the hunters to target the prey. All recreational hunting is called game.
Different techniques of hunting are used to attract the prey or trap it. Wildlife calling or game calling is one the best ways to attract the prey Hunting and Wildlife Calls:
Hunting and Wildlife Calls is a technique used to attract the prey towards a trap or within the boundaries of hunting zone. Special instruments are used that mimic the sounds of animals. It is most effective in the mating season of the species to be hunted. The target animal gets aroused by the call and runs in the direction of sound to find the mate. Generally, calling technique is used to hunt deers by grunt calls, bleat calls, and rattling antlers. Grunt call replicates the aggressive grunt of the buck to attract another buck for proving his dominance to get the mate. Bleat calls replicate the sound of female deer(doe) that is looking for a buck for breeding. Rattling antlers replicate the sound of two fighting bucks. All these calling techniques attract a lot of animals. Turkey, ducks, geese, moose, elk, raccoons, wild pigs, coyotes, bears, wolves, cougars, foxes, quails, squirrels, chipmunks and crows are some animals that are hunted by applying calling techniques.
A wide variety of calling tools are in market. Tube call tools are used for turkey hunting and these tubes can be made from hollow barrels and latex. Mouth call tools are made up of hand-stretched reeds that are tightened and aligned to produce accurate frequencies required to attract animals. Electronic game call tools are enabled with frequency amplifiers and 100s of preloaded animal sounds. These tools are highly effective in turnkey hunting and heavy predator hunting.
