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Game or quarry is any animal hunted for sport or for food. The type and range of animals hunted for food varies in different parts of the world. This is influenced by climate, animal diversity, local taste and locally accepted views about what can or cannot be legitimately hunted. Sometimes a distinction is also made between varieties and species of a particular animal, such as wild turkey and domestic turkey. Fish caught for sport are referred to as game fish. The term ''game'' arises in medieval hunting terminology by the late 13th century and is particular to English, from the generic meaning of Old English ''gamen'' (Germanic '' *gamanan'') "joy, amusement, sport, merriment". ''Quarry'' in the generic meaning is early modern (first recorded 1610), in the more specific sense "bird targeted in falconry" late 14th and 15th centuries as ''quirre'' "entrails of deer placed on the hide and given to the hunting-dogs as a reward", from Old French ''cuiriee'' "spoil, quarry" (ultimately Latin ''corium'' "hide"), but influenced by ''corée'' "viscera, entrails" (Late Latin '' *corata'' "entrails", from ''cor'' "heart"). In some countries, game is classified, including legal classification with respect to licences required, as either "small game" or "large game". Small game includes small animals, such as rabbits, pheasants, geese or ducks. A single small game licence may cover all small game species and be subject to yearly bag limits. Large game includes animals like deer and bear and are often subject to individual licensing where a separate licence is required for each individual animal taken (tags). ''Big game'' is a term sometimes used interchangeably with large game although in other contexts it refers to large, typically African, mammals (specifically "big five game" or "dangerous game") which are hunted mainly for trophies in safaris. ==By region== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Game (hunting)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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