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PIEGE TYPE CONIBEAR [1 record]

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Record 1 2016-03-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hunting and Sport Fishing
DEF

(After Frank Conibear, a Canadian expert on trapping) a kind of trap that kills its victims instantly.

CONT

One of the few modern advances in traps is found in the Conibear trap, which first appeared in 1957. This trap, deemed more humane than the common steel trap, kills an animal by squeezing it between two rigid wire bails.

OBS

Conibear: [Trade name for] Animal trap - Woodstream Corporation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chasse et pêche sportive
DEF

Piège à ressort dont les mâchoires en forme de X, tuent l'animal instantanément, lorsqu'elles se referment, en lui fracturant la colonne vertébrale.

OBS

Piège recommandé par la S.P.A. et considéré comme un des plus pratiques et des plus "humains".

Spanish

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