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Do Poles like to hunt? Hunting in Poland. [211]
Hunting is primitive, yes.
Hunting is part of what makes human.... human. It's a very deeply ingrained in the human psyche (especially the male psyche). There are several traditional types of hunting....
food (self explanatory)
defense (taking out other predators to reduce competition and to protect other members of the group)
display (showing off to other men and more specifically to women to advertise one's status as a desirable mate)
There might be others as well... in the modern world a lot of hunting is based on species nostalgia (for lack of a better word) it's also a chance for a type of male-bonding (important for maintaining a healthy society)
The nature of hunting as is why progressives hate it and conservatives supposedly support it (though this support is kind of wrongheaded and buffoonish).
Getting back to the original question - a few years ago I had a student who worked part-time as a local hunting.... interpreter, fixer (she didn't hunt but helped visiting hunters (many from Netherlands) deal with local regulations and authorities and paperwork. She said she really disliked it at first but came to respect it.
Weirdly one of the most commonly hunted animals in Poland (this was in the Kielce area IIRC) is the jenot (or raccoon dog - an animal I'd never heard of before).
Another student (female) became a hunter (an official title) those this is also involved a certain amount of service in the forest (being a licensed hunter in Poland also means being a conservationist).
