Dolphins are hunted this way in several places around the world, including the Solomon Islands, the Faroe Islands, Peru, and Japan, the most well-known practitioner of this method. By numbers, dolphins are mostly hunted for their meat, though some end up in dolphinariums.
A cell placed in hypotonic solution will burst or split as a result of water entering into the cell which makes it continue to swell until it burst. 15 people found this useful. Edit.
Cells in Hypotonic Solutions. Hypotonic comes from the Greek hypo, meaning under, and tonos, meaning stretching. In a hypotonic solution the total molar concentration of all dissolved solute particles is less than that of another solution or less than that of a cell.