Hunting Archive
The current picture is a work of Eugene Fromentin, a French painter, who had several visits in African regions, including Algeria. Falconry has been a well-practiced hunting tactic in Algeria for many decades. You just raise one Falcon with good training of how to capture a flying bird and instead of eating it, bringing it to its owner. The practiced, experienced falcon would bring in more food. In African countries this technique was the only option in various parts. So, falconry was fully grown and serious source of food. The trained falcons would hunt down the weak birds or slow rodents. But, sometimes falcons could become more daring and would catch a small animal, for instance, a little deer or a fox as shown in […]