What is the difference between hunting and culling?

What is the purpose of each, especially culling, and how does each affect the population and its gene pool?What is the difference between hunting and culling?
Hunting is an adventure to either acquire food or have fun, or both. Hunting affects the gene pool mostly by chance, as a specific type of animal within a species is not targeted. The gene pool may be affected, but only slightly, if you consider that the 'smart ones' stay out of harm's way.





Culling is pulling out an animal due to a specific trait, such as smaller, lower performing individuals with low standards. This will affect the gene pool, as populations that are not targeted will dominate, therefore resulting a population with better attributes.





Both will typically decrease the population, according to the intensity of hunting and/or culling.What is the difference between hunting and culling?
Culling is the process of eliminating a bad gene in a herd regardless of the animal. Or it can also be a deer management practice, the removal of sick or diseased animals in a herd. Hunting is defined by who you ask.


Hunting is the act of chase of a certain animal for food or pelts. Native Americans hunted for food pelts (or Skins) for clothing shelter and used the bones to make weapons. They wasted nothing of any animal they killed today hunting is becoming sport for some and food for others.
culling is hunting. When you hunt, you set out to kill a animal, lets say a deer. typically you would either meat hunt, trophy hunt, or cull. meat hunters will shoot the first deer they see just for the food. Trophy hunters are usually looking for really nice bucks to hang on their wall. Culling a deer means removing one from the herd, basically. It is usually referenced though, when a hunter shoots a buck that does not generally fit trophy standards, usually because of a deformity, or because the deer has gotten old, say six or seven years, and has not produced a huge rack. A lot of hunters believe that a mature deer with a small rack will pass this trait down when he breeds a doe, making more bucks that will never be trophies. I'm not sure if its been proven or not, but theoretically, if only trophy bucks are mating, they will only provide trophy buck babies. You decide!
Culling is the process of removing animals from a group based on specific criteria. This is done in order to either reinforce certain desirable characteristics or to remove certain undesirable characteristics from the group. For livestock and wildlife, the process of culling usually implies the killing of animals with undesirable characteristics.
culling is when you remove the sick and the weak.


@ least that is what you do with hounds and christmas trees!...LOL!