Hunter with a bear's head and hide strapped to his back on the Kodiak Archipelago
Trophy hunting is the selective hunting of wild game for human recreation. The trophy is the animal or part of the animal kept and usually displayed, to represent the success of the hunt. The game sought is typically a large or impressively ornamented male, such as one having large horns or antlers. Generally, only parts of the animal are kept as trophies (usually the head, skin, horns or antlers) and the carcass itself is used for food or donated to the local community.
Trophies are often displayed in the hunter's home or office, and often in specially designed "trophy rooms," sometimes called "game rooms" or "gun rooms," in which the hunter's weaponry is displayed as well.[1]
Trophy hunting has both firm supporters and strong opponents. Debates surrounding trophy hunting centrally concern not only the question of the morality of recreational hunting and supposed conservation efforts of big-game and ranch hunting, but also the observed decline in animal species that are targets for trophy hunting. (information from Wikipedia.)
and it is not right. these are living beings you slaughtered for a "trophy."
