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The pan-India enumeration, part of the wider "Project Dolphin", will be starting with workshops in November with field work aimed to be completed by March next year.
It is the first time scientists have measured an age-related metabolic slowdown in another large-bodied species besides humans.
The hunt sees the animals driven into a cove where some are slaughtered for their meat with knives in shallow waters, the BBC report said.
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