Why do the fishermen leave the dolphins in the cove overnight before they kill them?
After the dolphin hunters have sealed the killing cove with large nets, they leave the dolphins in the cove, returning the next day at sunrise to kill them. Why don’t they kill them right away? One theory is that the dolphin meat tastes better if the dolphins are left overnight so that they calm down after the chase. But this is hard to believe. We have spent hours observing schools of dolphins after they were chased into the killing cove. At no point do they appear to be “relaxed.” On the contrary, they spend the entire time hyperventilating, circling their confinement and looking for a way out. We think there are two reasons that the fishermen don’t kill the dolphins right away: The hunt often goes on for eight or nine hours, sometimes even longer, with the dolphins escaping the boats and the fishermen chasing them down again. By the time the fishermen have chased the dolphins into the killing cove and sealed their fate with nets, they just want to go home. It’s much more convenient
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