CAMERA HUNTING

"Camera hunting" is not hunting, it is nature photography. Real
hunting (not that sham called "camera hunting") requires the death of
the animal, or at least the possibility of the death of the animal,
because it authenticates the entire procedure and grounds it in
reality.

As Jose Ortega y Gasset states in "Meditations on Hunting":

"...killing is not the exclusive purpose of hunting." [p.45]

"To the sportsman the death of the game is not what interests
him; that is not his purpose. What interests him is everything
that he had to do to achieve that death - that is, the
hunt. Therefore what was before only a means to an end is now an
end in itself. Death is essential because without it there is no
authentic hunting: the killing of the animal is the natural end
of the hunt and that goal of hunting itself, not of the
hunter. The hunter seeks this death because it is no less than
the sign of reality for the whole hunting process. To sum up, one
does not hunt in order to kill; on the contrary, one kills in
order to have hunted." [p.96-97]

Jose Ortega y Gasset. 1985. "Meditations on Hunting". Charles 
Scribner's Sons, New York. ISBN 0-684-18630-6