A study finds the more experienced animals would teach the younger ones how to flee or swim upwind from the hunters.
JapanesewhalingvesselsreturnedtoportonSaturdayaftercatchingmorethan300ofthemammalsintheAntarcticOceanwithoutfacinganyprotestsbyanti-whalinggroups,officialssaid.
Japanisconsideringupgradingitsageingleadwhalingship,afisheriesofficialconfirmedWednesday,inasignthatthecountry'scontroversialAntarctichuntswillcontinuedespitein
ActivistgroupSeaShepherdTuesdaypulledtheplugonitsannualcampaigntodisruptJapanesewhaling,sayingitcannolongermatchthecountry'smilitaryandeconomicpower.Theorganisa
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met here Friday with visiting Australian counterpart Malcolm Turnbull to boost bilateral cooperation, but divergence remained between them over Japan's controversial plan to restart its so-called scientific whaling.
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull expressed disappointment on Friday at Japan's resumption of whaling in the Southern Ocean, but said the dispute over the hunt should not be allowed to hurt the two countries' special strategic ties.
Japanese whaling vessels on Tuesday departed from a port in Yamaguchi Prefecture in western Japan to join a fleet that will begin hunting whales for "scientific research" in a controversial move that marks the first hunt since an international court ruled against the practice a year ago.
Activist hackers from the Anonymous collective have claimed responsibility for bringing down five government websites in Iceland in a protest against whale-hunting by the North Atlantic nation.
Senior officials of Iceland defended the country's whaling policy Tuesday, responding to a recent international demarche issued by some 30 countries against Iceland's whaling.
Japanese Fishery Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi said Tuesday that he is determined to "maintain the solid policy of preserving whale-eating culture and securing of whale meat," according to local media.
Japan has now temporarily suspended its annual whale hunt after anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd has accused the Nisshin Maru of ramming two of its vessels in an act of "road rage" as the protesters tried to prevent the whaler from refuelling, Australian Minister for Environment Tony Burke said in a ABC news program on Thursday.
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