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Australia has no big game animals. Early European settlers hunted the kangaroo, the dingo (a wild dog), and the emu (for plumage) as indigenous hunters had; deer were introduced but did not thrive. Fox hunting has persisted sporadically. In New Zealand, however, transplanted imports such as red and fallow deer and chamois from Europe; sambar, axis, and Japanese deer and tahr from Asia; and moose, elk, and white-tailed deer from North America have all thrived. In the second half of the 20th century, commercial meat hunting made heavy inroads into the stock. In the second half of the 20th century, ...(100 of 2862 words)