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Encyclopedic overview
Trap nets used to trap birds (tacuinum sanitatis casanatensis); 14th century
Animal trapping, or simply trapping or ginning, is the use of a device to remotely catch and often kill an animal. Animals may be trapped for a variety of purposes, including for meat, fur/feathers, sport hunting, pest control, and wildlife management.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “animal trap” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.