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When was the last time you saw some dolphins at anaquarium? Was it un to watch? Do you think thedolphins enjoyed it? A new lm shows just exactly

where some o these dolphins come rom. And it isnt pleasant.

The Cove is a documentary flm with a lot o blood... dolphinblood. Its all about dolphin drive hunting, which is a method ohunting dolphins that shermen use. They use boats to drive thedolphins into a bay or onto a beach. Once there, the dolphinsare prevented rom escaping and are then killed in the waterwith knives or spears. The dolphins are mostly hunted or theirmeat, but some are captured and end up in dolphinariums,including the world-amous SeaWorld parks.

This orm o dolphin killing takes place in many places aroundthe world. There are dolphin drive hunts in the Solomon Islands,Peru and the Faroe Islands (a group o islands that lie betweenScotland and Iceland and that belong to Denmark). In the FaroeIslands, its mostly Pilot Whales that are killed or their meat, butdolphins also end up slaughtered. In this case, the animals aredriven onto the beach or dragged there with hooks and thenkilled mercilessly.

The Cove ocuses on a particular dolphin hunt near the towno Taiji in Japan. Every year, more than 2,000 dolphins aredriven into a cove near the town and killed. The documentarylm is directed by ormer National Geographic photographerLouis Psihoyos, and was made secretly throughout 2007 usingunderwater microphones, high-denition cameras disguised asrocks and a camouaged camera crew hidden on headlands.Also appearing in the lm is Ric OBarry, the director o SaveJapan Dolphins coalition and a marine mammal expert. Hetrained dolphins or the popular 1960s TV series Flipper. He

is credited with having started the dolphin entertainmentindustry, but has spent most o his lie ghting against it.

So, what do the people o Taiji (population circa 3,400) thinkabout it? Many eel that they are being unairly singled out.The town o Taiji has a 400-year history o whale and dolphinhunting; and its shermen only catch about 20% o Japansyearly dolphin quota. Town-council chie Katsutoshi Miharatold the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper, Almost all the dolphinscaught in Japan are sold or meat near the towns where theyrecaught, and only 1% (about 12) are sold live to aquariums.Masashi Nishimura, manager o the Japan Fisheries Associationsinternational section said, I dont think its a big topic here, hesays. As long as the killing is humane, dolphins are like otheranimals to us.

But or many people, dolphins are special. They are clearly highlyintelligent mammals and they oten orm strong bonds oriendship with humans. Primates such as chimpanzees, gorillasand orang-utans are all protected species. Should these levels oprotection be extended to marine mammals too? Many believethey should.

GLOSSARYa documentary flmn

a television or radio programme whichis about real events / nature, etc.

a spearn

a weapon that consists o a longwooden pole with a sharp point at

the end

to slaughtervbto kill in a cruel, unjust or

unnecessary way

to drag vbto use orce to pull something along

the ground

a hookn

a piece o metal with a sharp end

in the orm o a U that is used orcatching or holding things

mercilessly advwithout pity or mercy; cruelly

a coven

a small bay (a part o the coastlinewhere the land curves inwards)

disguised as exp

i A is disguised as B, A is made tolook like B

to camouagevb

to use leaves, branches, paint, etc.to make something difcult to see

a crewn

the people who are workingtogether on a special project

a headlandn

a narrow piece o land which goes

out into the seato credit someone with somethingexpto say that someone is responsible

or somethingto single outphr vb

to give a person/group, etc. special

attention or treatmenta bond o riendshipexp

a strong eeling between two people

(or people and animals) o love /riendship / shared belies, etc.

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Pre-reangMatch the marine animals (1 to 6) to the photos (a-).1. A dolphin2. A seal3. A whale4. A killer whale5. A walrus6. A narwhal

2 Reang iRead the article once. What are the arguments orand against the killing o these mammals?

3 Reang iiRead the article again and answer the questions1. What do they use to drive the

dolphins into the cove?2. What happens to some o the

dolphins?3. In which other places does this orm

o killing occur?4. What did they use to make the lm?5. How is Ric OBarrys lie a

contradiction?6. What does Masashi Nishimura think

about the killings?

4 Language focus Verbs +prepostons

Look at this extract rom the article, Oncethere, the dolphins are prevented romescaping... The writer has used a verb + a

preposition (prevent rom). Complete the ollowingsentences with your own ideas.1. The prisoners escaped rom the

prison by...2. The lm version o the book is

diferent rom...3. She borrowed the money rom...4. This jacket will protect you rom...5. They translated the document rom

English into...

5 dscusson1. What do you think o this issue? Do you

think it's important? Why? Why not?2. What are some o the worst abuses

that humans commit against animals?3. What other orms o protection can

be given to animals?

the coveAn Americandocumentary flmabout the slaughter odolphins in Japan which

is directed by LouiePsihoyos.

dolphinsDolphins are marinemammals that areclosely related to whalesand porpoises. Theyvary in size rom 1.2metres and 40 kilos toup to 9.5 metres and 10tonnes. Dolphinsare among themost intelligentanimals on the

planet.

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