Trapping

The human activity of animal trapping consists of hunting for animals to obtain their furs, which are then used for clothes and other artifacts, or sold / bartered (see fur trade). Trappers often but not exclusively use traps to catch their prey; hence the name of the activity and its practitioners. Hunters may also trap animals for food.

Related Topics:
Hunting - Animal - Fur - Barter - Fur trade - Trap

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Trapping other animals for food is also practiced by some animals, for example, the funnel web spider traps its prey.

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Trapping may also refer to an activity in printing whereby areas of one color are expanded to ovelap areas of another color to compensate for misregistration between plates on the printing press. For example, a black border might be expanded to overlap an image in order to avoid small slivers of white or other colors appearing between the border and the image due to the yellow, magenta and cyan plates being slightly offset relative to the black plate.

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