Defined in Krünitz’ Enzyklopädie as a mammal “that needs other animals for the nutrition nature designates for it” (“welches andere Thiere zu seiner von der Natur ihm bestimmten Nahrung braucht”) [2. 20], the catalogue of predators (German Raubtier) across Europe in government hunt lists and the hunting literature of the period included large and small animals, including brown bears, lynxes, wolves (see below, 2.), feral dogs, foxes, wildcats, otters, badgers, wolverines, polecats…