What do dolphins experience during a hunt?
The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) and countless other animal rights organizations consider dolphin hunting inhumane. It’s a long process in which hunters usually chase the dolphins for many hours to get them into shallow water. Once trapped, the dolphins — confused and desperate to escape — are often left overnight to thrash around. Those purchased by the entertainment industry (specifically in countries where, unlike in the United States, it remains legal to do so) end up forcefully separated from their mothers or pod family and must adapt to strange new living conditions. The remaining dolphins are killed with sharp spears for their meat and teeth.
