Trapping
Trapping is a method of capturing wildlife by humans using devices specifically designed to restrain an animal in place without the need for continual human presence. Traps can be set and left, making them resource efficient from the standpoint of the trapper.
Traps may be used to both capture and kill animals. Most people are familiar with snaptraps and glue traps used domestically to control small pests by killing them. Other forms of traps include leghold traps which, when sprung, grab and hold limbs; wire snares which, when tripped, encircle and tighten around body parts; and Conibear traps which are designed to kill large animals by clamping down on their necks. Box traps are the most humane traps because they are designed to capture the entire animal in an enclosure. Even non-lethal, non-injurious traps are inhumane, however, if left for extended periods of time because trapped animals can die of thirst, hunger, exposure, self-mutilation, or predation. (Glue traps in particular may seem “less gruesome” on the surface but in practice are terribly inhumane. Quite often the trapped animals suffer greatly as they struggle and die slowly—over a period of many hours or days—after being subjected to extreme stress and fear.)
The non-selective and highly destructive steel-jaw leghold trap is the most common type of trap, used to catch millions of animals for their fur each year in the US Invented in the 1820s, this trap consists of two opposing spring-powered steel jaws that slam violently together on any animal who triggers the pan between them. Victims suffer excruciating pain and fear as they tear ligaments and break teeth in their struggle to free themselves from the bone-crushing jaws. Some may even chew off a trapped paw to escape on three legs.
AWI has been campaigning vigorously for years against the steel-jaw leghold trap in this country and abroad. It has been condemned as inhumane by the World Veterinary Association, the National Animal Control Association of the United States, and the American Animal Hospital Association, yet its widespread use continues.
Although there are fewer than 100,000 licensed trappers in the US, each year an estimated 3–5 million animals are caught and killed for their fur. Millions more are trapped annually by state and federal agencies, private nuisance wildlife control operators, and individual landowners. Unknown numbers of non-target animals—including dogs, cats, birds, deer, and threatened and endangered species—are also trapped and injured or killed.
Trapping in the US is regulated by individual states. However, regulations vary widely and may be poorly enforced. Some states only require trappers to check their traps once every three or four days, while others do not have any requirement at all, allowing trappers to leave their devices unattended indefinitely. If the animal is still alive when the trapper returns, he or she is usually killed by a blow to the head or suffocation induced by the trapper standing on the animal’s chest. Trappers seldom kill animals by gunshot, as a bullet hole reduces a pelt’s value.
The US lags far behind the rest of the world in regard to trapping reforms. More than 85 countries have banned or severely restricted the use of the leghold trap, including all member countries of the European Union. Only eight states have enacted bans or significant restrictions on leghold traps: Florida, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Arizona, Colorado, Massachusetts, California and Washington.
Penning
The practice of confining coyotes and foxes in pens and exposing them to packs of dogs for “sport,” “entertainment” and dog training is called penning.
Live-trapped coyotes and foxes (generally caught with leghold traps or snares) are often shipped and traded across state lines for sale to penning facilities. The wild canid is released into a pen where he or she may be chased down by dogs. Most penned coyotes and foxes, after being subjected to the terrifying ordeal of being stalked and cornered by the dogs, are torn apart and killed in a mad frenzy. As the wild canids are killed, the pens are restocked with more victims.
Although outlawed in many US states, penning is still legal in several states throughout the Southeast and Midwest, despite a 2008 resolution by the Midwest Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies which urged the adoption of state regulations to prohibit the practice.
FAQs
In an ideal Penning trap the ring and endcaps are hyperboloids of revolution. For trapping of positive (negative) ions, the endcap electrodes are kept at a positive (negative) potential relative to the ring. This potential produces a saddle point in the centre of the trap, which traps ions along the axial direction.
What is trapping slang for? ›
Trapping. The act of selling drugs. Trapping can refer to the act of moving drugs from one town to another or the act of selling drugs in one. Trap House or Bando.
What is the trapping method? ›
Trapping involves the use of mechanical devices that capture animals without the trapper being present. Trapping is one of the most common and effective methods that landowners use for managing wildlife damage because traps are time savers. Traps work even when you are not present.
What is considered trapping? ›
“Trap” or “trapping” is the use of traps, nets, snares, deadfalls or other devices used for the purpose of killing, capturing, netting or ensnaring any wildlife.
What does "penning" mean? ›
Definitions of penning. the act of creating written works. synonyms: authorship, composition, writing.
What is the difference between a Paul trap and a Penning trap? ›
In a Penning trap at maximum ion density (zero pressure), the radial (but not the axial) trapping potential is mass dependent, whereas both radial and axial potentials in a Paul trap at maximum ion density are mass dependent.
Why do people do trapping? ›
Today, individuals trap for varied reasons -- as part of their cultural heritage, to harvest food and fur, and to help manage wildlife resources.
Is trapping good or bad? ›
Both the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) and the American Animal Hospital Association have declared the steel-jaw leghold trap to be inhumane. In September 2019, California became the first state in the US to ban trapping for commercial and recreational purpose.
What do rappers mean by trapping? ›
The term "trap" refers to places where drug deals take place. Other topics also include street life, acquiring wealth, violence, American vehicles, and life experiences that artists have faced in their southern American surroundings.
What states have banned trapping? ›
Only eight states have enacted bans or significant restrictions on leghold traps: Florida, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Arizona, Colorado, Massachusetts, California and Washington.
The TRAP method helps you go through a step-by-step process asking questions about a source. These questions help you decide whether a source is legitimate. You'll consider timeliness, relevance, authority, and purpose.
How to do trapping? ›
Try these 18 tips:
- Get them comfortable with the trap.
- Use a larger trap.
- Cover the trap.
- Try a more exciting bait.
- Make a food trail.
- Change the trap's location.
- Observe habits.
- Use distraction techniques.
Trapping, or to trap also means turning tricks. Specifically, strippers seeing clients on the side, away from the club, accepting money for sex. I don't know if this is hip hop lingo per say, or if it is just slang.
What is trapping in dating? ›
A “dating trap” is an unconscious relationship choice that results in an unsolvable problem in a relationship. Getting out of the trap often means leaving the relationship.
What is trapping in psychology? ›
a social dilemma in which individuals, groups, organizations, or whole societies initiate a course of action or establish a set of relationships that lead to negative or even lethal outcomes in the long term, but that once initiated are difficult to withdraw from or alter.
What is the motion of the Penning trap? ›
In Penning trap terms, this slow drift is called the magnetron motion and behaves like a harmonic oscillator with the so-called magnetron frequency ω− . a potential hill in the radial plane.
What is the potential in a Penning trap? ›
Plasmas in a Penning trap are axially confined by quadratic electric potentials. In a perfect Penning trap, the potentials are produced by the application of voltages to equipotential surfaces shaped like hyperboloids of rotation.
What is trapping method in chemistry? ›
Chemical trapping occurs when CO2 adsorbs onto organic materials contained on coals and shales (adsorption trapping—Fig. 1b), or dissolves in subsurface fluids (solubility and ionic trapping) and may then be involved in chemical reactions with the rock matrix (mineral trapping).
What is the Penning ionization process? ›
Penning ionization refers to the interaction between an electronically excited gas-phase atom G* and a target molecule M. The collision results in the ionization of the molecule yielding a cation M+., an electron e−, and a neutral gas molecule, G, in the ground state.
