Dolphin drive hunting, also called dolphin drive fishing, is a method of hunting dolphins – and occasionally other small cetaceans such as pilot whales – by herding them toward the shore with boats, t
Atlantic white-sided dolphin caught in a drive hunt in Hvalba on the Faroe Islands being taken away with a forklift
Killed pilot whales on the beach in the village Hvalba on the southernmost Faroese island Suðuroy, August 2002
The fishing village of Taiji
Dusky dolphin being skinned on a boat in Peru
Pilot whales are cetaceans belonging to the genus Globicephala. The two extant species are the long-finned pilot whale and the short-finned pilot whale. The two are not readily distinguishable at sea,
Jaw of the extinct species Globicephala etruriae
Long-finned pilot whale skeleton