Timmy the Humpback Whale Found Dead Off Denmark
A recovered GPS tracker confirmed the whale was the same animal rescued from Germany, and officials said the carcass poses no current problem.
- A humpback whale known as Timmy was found dead off the Danish island of Anholt on Thursday. Division head Jane Hansen of the Danish Nature Agency confirmed the carcass matched the animal from previous German rescue attempts.
- After initial strandings near Luebeck on Germany's Baltic Sea coast, rescuers released the whale into the North Sea off Denmark. The animal had previously become stuck on sandbanks several times.
- Entrepreneurs Karin Walter-Mommert and Walter Gunz financed the rescue at an estimated cost of £1.5 million. Some experts criticized the private plan, arguing it would only cause the animal more distress.
- The Danish Environmental Protection Agency stressed that the public should keep a safe distance from the carcass. The agency warned of a "risk of explosion" due to gas buildup from decomposition.
- Conditions today made it possible to retrieve the tracking device fastened to the whale's back. Hansen added that there are currently no plans to remove the carcass or perform a necropsy.
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A humpback whale who appeared dead on the Danish coast of Anholt is Timmy, the cetacean who had been stranded almost two months in front of Germany and who two weeks ago was released after a controversial rescue operation, reported this Saturday the Danish Environmental Protection Agency.
The humpback whale Timmy, who has stranded on the German coast of the Baltic Sea several times in recent months and was placed on a barge and released into the North Sea a few weeks ago, has been found dead near a Danish island.
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