Beaked whales are rare visitors to Greek seas. They are among the smallest and thinnest whales.

This is why the early whalers did not hunt them. However, once the large whales began to disappear, the whalers turned to hunting these small whales.

Even though over the past 100 years more than 100,000 beaked whales have been killed by whalers, unfortunately, their hunting continues to this day, in Norway and Japan.