hunted

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Many show marks consistent with cutting, breaking, and processing, similar to the way animals were hunted and prepared for food.

From Science Daily • Apr. 12, 2026

Beavers are native to the British mainland but they were hunted to extinction in the 16th Century.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

Naturalist Stephen Boyes believes massive elephants live undetected on a remote plateau in Angola; they’d be descendants of a giant pachyderm hunted and killed 70 years ago that now resides in the Smithsonian.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

His comrades have been slowly picked off, and without human connections he has further transformed into a hunted animal, driven to elude his pursuers purely by “anger and desperation.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

While Omakayas dragged kettle after kettle of mud to the side of the cabin and, along with Angeline, chinked the cracks that had opened during hot weather, Andeg hunted.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich