Hunted, dolphins desperately rushed their heads into the rocks

The dolphins frightened themselves into the rocks as if to ask for help, but still could not escape the tragic fate.

Dolphins kill themselves because of being hunted

Ric O'Barry, the leader of the Dolphin Protection Project, came to Taiji, Japan, to observe the annual dolphin hunting since September 11. Here, O'Barry had the opportunity to witness a dolphin constantly plunging into stone in despair.

Frightened Risso dolphins swim around the corral.(Photo: The Dolphin Project).

In the video, O'Barry returned, a frightened dolphin Risso swam frantically around the beach on the beach after being driven from deep water into the slaughter. They constantly climbed up and dived into the water, then caught themselves in the walls of the grid when they tried to escape. A few swim down to the bottom of the net but get stuck in the net near the shore instead of finding the way to the sea.

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A dolphin seems to recognize who can help it intuitively. The fish plunges into the rock at O'Barry's feet, struggling and flailing desperately.

The desperate dolphin plunges itself into the rocks.(Photo: The Dolphin Project).

O'Barry was equally emotional but could not do anything to help."I will be arrested immediately. The police are everywhere. Social activists can only observe the hunt and not intervene. If they do, they will be arrested and may be seated. There is no real story in Taiji, " The Dodo quoted O'Barry.

"This scene is so painful. The fish panic rushed into the rock, and I was so miserable because I couldn't go to the water to help him. It was making my skin ragged. It was terrible," O'Barry said.

O'Barry said, a fisherman's boat slowly approached the landed animal. When they arrived, they grabbed the fins and pushed it into the water, but the dolphin could hardly swim. He gave up and sank into the water. After a while, another boat came over, carrying a man in a full diving suit."They let the diver down. Maybe they will eat the fish," O'Barry said.

The dolphin caught on a rocky beach.(Photo: The Dolphin Project).

Each year, 20,000 dolphins are slaughtered in Japan, in which the number of dolphins who become victims of the hunt in Taiji amounted to hundreds. A few escaping death will be sold to zoo and marine park, must live in captivity, away from home.

While proponents say this is a Japanese tradition, dolphin hunting has become popular in the past few decades. O'Barry argues that the supporters of Taiji are a group of locals who get rich by killing dolphins, not representing all Japanese people.