Research Paper On Living Like Weasels

A hunter is a provider. This skill that a person learns can save their family, or themselves in a time of need. Providing nourishment, protection, intelligence of the wild is what they are good at. To be a hunter is to be smart, stealthy, patient and merciful. Hunters observe, wait, shoot to kill and provide. These are just a few traits that a hunter has, you can learn them yet most hunters are born with these instincts. A hunter is much like any other predator in the wild, a bear, coyote, wolf are all hunters and predators. In her influential essay " Living like weasels", Annie Dillard writes about a predator we aren't used to talking about. She says "Outside, he stalks rabbits, mice, muskrats, and birds, killing more bodies than he can eat war, and often dragging the carcasses home. Obedient to instinct, he bites his prey at the neck, either splitting the jugular vein at the throat or crunching the brain at the base of the skull, and he
A hunter needs some type of cover to stealth into so animals think we are not there. So, we hiked to the next spot, this one was not easy to reach. There were so many big pine trees, and maple trees, with the abundance of trees it earned its name "The Tree Farm." The family is the only hunters allowed access to this nice spot, there are so many potential cover trees, rocks big and small to sit on, there were signs of life everywhere. While scouting this spot it started to snow, big heavy snowflakes, dainty light snowflakes, the wind started blowing, it was a tunnel effect almost because there were so many trees. Beautiful is an understatement to this experience, to see the trees dance in the wind with the snow blowing around them was astonishing. This sight was serene, peaceful and absolutely memorizing. This vision will forever be engrained in my mind when I think about