Indonesia Denies NGO Allegations Of Dolphin, Whale Hunting

[lock_washer]

Saw this article in the news:

Indonesia Denies NGO Allegations Of Dolphin, Whale Hunting | The Jakarta Globe

The picture in the article shows villagers butchering a killer whale. I have a hard time grasping the concept of a apex and intelligent animal such as a killer whale which lives in pods being hunted by villagers in small boats. I have this feeling that this killer whale washed ashore sick, then was butchered.

What do you think?

Lock Washer

 

[tincan715]

Today whaling is done with powerful ships and explosive harpoons, but that's just the latest technology. Rowboats and hand-thrown harpoon are quite practical for killing even much larger whales than orcas, and many fortunes were made whaling that way in the early days of this country.