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Communal hunting with children in Sierra Leone.
Adults and children leave the village with their hunting nets to participate in a communal hunt in a nearby forest and fallow land. Communal hunting with nets is done with a group of people including net owners who encircle a delimitated area with their nets, and dog owners, who use their dogs to flush prey towards the nets. Other participants close off the rest of the delimited portion and flush out animals. Women also participate in communal hunting, helping to flush prey into nets. During the communal hunt that we participated in, animals were bludgeoned to death with fists to avoid damaging the expensive nets. Bonwitt et al.
Image Credit: Jesse Bonwitt
Citation: (2017) PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases Issue Image | Vol. 11(7) July 2017. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 11(7): ev11.i07. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pntd.v11.i07
Published: July 31, 2017
Copyright: © 2017 Bonwitt. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Adults and children leave the village with their hunting nets to participate in a communal hunt in a nearby forest and fallow land. Communal hunting with nets is done with a group of people including net owners who encircle a delimitated area with their nets, and dog owners, who use their dogs to flush prey towards the nets. Other participants close off the rest of the delimited portion and flush out animals. Women also participate in communal hunting, helping to flush prey into nets. During the communal hunt that we participated in, animals were bludgeoned to death with fists to avoid damaging the expensive nets. Bonwitt et al.
Image Credit: Jesse Bonwitt