Meanings of hunt whales in English

Japan continues to hunt whales despite pressure to stop from anti-whaling nations.

Japan, Norway and Iceland are the only countries that now hunt whales.

They hunt whales, though nowadays they shoot rather than harpoon them.

Japan has confirmed that it intends to return to the Antarctic to hunt whales.

Many don't hunt whales at all.

For a start it has been unclear whether orcas, also known as killer whales, really hunt whales, and how often.

Whatever would vessels of any kind want up in Hudson Bay, if not to fish, or hunt whales, or seals, or walrus?

LONDON - Norway walked out of the International Whaling Commission's annual conference yesterday in protest at a resolution censuring it for continuing to hunt whales.

Greenlandic people are allowed to hunt whales, but "seal is everything" an English-speaking man tells me on a tour of the three-room Kulusuk museum.

Five generations of Heberleys had hunted whales, mostly on Great Barrier Island.

Far above all other hunted whales, his is an unwritten life.

When fishermen first hunted whales 400 years ago, these animals grew to bigger sizes than they do today.

Commercial whaling was banned under a 1986 moratorium, but Japan still hunts whales for what it says are research purposes.

The expedition is also set to monitor Japanese whaling ships in the area, despite Japan saying it won't be hunting whales this year.