Timmy the humpback whale found dead off Danish coast
NPR • • general
Key Points:
- A humpback whale found dead near the Danish island of Anholt has been confirmed as the same whale rescued off Germany's Baltic Sea coast two weeks earlier.
- The whale, nicknamed "Timmy" and "Hope," was released on May 2 after being transported toward the North Sea in a special barge.
- Danish authorities identified the whale by retrieving a tracking device still attached to its back, confirming it was the same animal involved in the earlier rescue attempts.
- The whale washed up on Thursday in the Kattegat strait, which connects the Baltic Sea to the North Sea, south of its release location.