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nonhunting

  • a word derived from hunting.
    hunting
    noun
    the act of a person, animal, or thing that hunts.

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“The nonhunting tools add to our understanding of the diversity of Neanderthal behavior … and help us relate to them: They had to live, and make clothes.”

From Science Magazine Mar. 31, 2024

The question of how, or even if, outdoor human recreation of the nonhunting variety impacts wildlife is “kind of an emerging field,” Prugh said.

From Seattle Times Oct. 30, 2022

And in later years, a weekend day for nonhunting enthusiasts to take to the outdoors without worrying about bullets or buckshot.

From Washington Times Dec. 4, 2019

The nonhunting female, Ardrey believes, contributed vitamins to the diet by foraging for plants.

From Time Magazine Archive

Since as hunter-gatherers they did not produce crop surpluses available for redistribution or storage, they could not support and feed nonhunting craft specialists, armies, bureaucrats, and chiefs.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond