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.
Another way to describe the two solutions in the example of above is to use the terms hypertonic and hypotonic. A hypertonic solution has more solutes and less water than a hypotonic solution. So, in the example above, the solution inside the cell is hypertonic to the solution outside the cell.