Eavesdroppers
As eavesdropper or Luser or Clear designates Hunter outer ear, so the ears of wild ungulates and hair Wild general.
function
Especially when hoofed game - excluding the wild (referred to as "plate") is - we speak with ears pricked in the hunter language of eavesdroppers, as the term from the Old High German hlosen is what so much as watch means. The eavesdroppers are often disproportionately large in relation to the skull of the animals and can be rotated and aligned in all directions thanks to the ear muscles . They are also constantly on duty during the grazing to register unusual noises and possibly initiate the urge to flee.
Phrase
- The idiom the eavesdropper on the wall, hears his own shame , means that those who eavesdrop on someone curiously must expect to find out negative things about themselves.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Knaurs Großes Jagdlexikon edition from 1999, page 512
- ↑ Duden 7 Etymologie from 1963, page 391
- ↑ http://www.zeno.org/Wander-1867/A/Lauscher?hl=lauscher