Feeding frenzy human style.
Hundreds of long-finned pilot whales are killed in a year, mainly during the summer. The hunts, called grindadr'ap in Faroese, are non-commercial and are organized on a community level; anyone can participate. When a whale pod by chance is spotted near land the participating hunters first surround the pilot whales with a wide semicircle of boats and then slowly and quietly begin to drive the whales towards the chosen authorised bay.When a pod of whales has been stranded the killing is begun.
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