{"id":24700,"date":"2025-03-26T03:01:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T04:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=24700"},"modified":"2025-03-26T04:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T04:24:08","slug":"why-these-islanders-hunt-dolphins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=24700","title":{"rendered":"Why These Islanders Hunt Dolphins"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The call of a conch shell roused the dolphin hunters from their beds. Under moonlight, the six men shuffled to the village church.<\/p>\n

There a priest led them in a whispered prayer, his voice barely audible over the sound of crashing waves; the tide was high that day. Saltwater pooled in parts of the village, which is on Fanalei Island, an ever-shrinking speck of land that is part of the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific.<\/p>\n

They paddled out in wooden canoes before first light, cutting through the darkness until they were miles away from shore. After hours of scanning the horizon, one of the hunters, Lesley Fugui, saw a fin slice the glassy water. He raised a 10-foot-long bamboo pole with a piece of cloth tied to the end, alerting the others of his discovery. Then he made a phone call to his wife. He had found dolphins. The hunt would begin.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Coral and sand largely make up the inhabited part of Fanalei Island, which is rapidly shrinking as sea levels rise.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Dolphin hunters gather before dawn outside a small church on Fanalei, where a priest typically leads them in a prayer for their safety ahead of their excursion.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The hunters setting out on a canoe. If a pod of dolphins is discovered, they will raise a 10-foot-long bamboo pole with a piece of cloth tied to the end to alert the others of their discovery.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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The call of a conch shell roused the dolphin hunters from their beds. Under moonlight, the six men shuffled to the village church.There a priest led them in a whispered prayer, his voice barely audible over the sound of crashing waves; the tide was high that day. Saltwater pooled in parts of the village, which is on Fanalei Island, an ever-shrinking speck of land that is part of the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific.They paddled out in wooden canoes before first light, cutting through the darkness until they were miles away from shore. After hours of scanning the horizon, one of the hunters, Lesley Fugui, saw a fin slice the glassy water. He raised a 10-foot-long bamboo pole with a piece of cloth tied to the end, alerting the others of his discovery. Then he made a phone call to his wife. He had found dolphins. The hunt would begin.Coral and sand largely make up the inhabited part of Fanalei Island, which is rapidly shrinking as sea levels rise.Dolphin hunters gather before dawn outside a small church on Fanalei, where a priest typically leads them in a prayer for their safety ahead of their excursion.The hunters setting out on a canoe. If a pod of dolphins is discovered, they will raise a 10-foot-long bamboo pole with a piece of cloth tied to the end to alert the others of their discovery.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24702,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24700"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24705,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24700\/revisions\/24705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}