A humpback whale that underwent a rescue operation in Germany two weeks ago after beaching itself there has been found dead near a Danish island, officials said on Saturday.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt can now be confirmed that the stranded humpback whale near Anholt is the same whale that was previously stranded in Germany and was the subject of rescue attempts,\u201d said Jane Hansen, division head at the Danish Environmental Protection Agency.<\/p>\n
The whale, dubbed \u201cTimmy\u201d in German media, was initially spotted stuck on a sandbank on March 23. After several failed attempts it was finally put in a barge and released into the North Sea off Denmark on May 2.<\/p>\n
The whale carcass was first spotted off the coast of the Danish island Anholt in the Kattegat strait between Sweden and Denmark on Thursday, but authorities were at first unable to confirm it was the same whale.<\/p>\n
\u201cConditions today made it possible for a local employee from the Danish Nature Agency to locate and retrieve an attached tracking device that was still fastened to the whale\u2019s back,\u201d Hansen said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe position and appearance of the device confirm that this is the same whale that had previously been observed and handled in German waters.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A humpback whale that underwent a rescue operation in Germany two weeks ago after beaching itself there has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[44742,4625,44744,27,26,44802,190,38783,44801,44803,44799,44800,16627,132,38784,44798],"class_list":{"0":"post-84074","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denmark","8":"tag-anholt","9":"tag-baltic-sea","10":"tag-danish-environmental-protection-agency","11":"tag-danmark","12":"tag-denmark","13":"tag-german-waters","14":"tag-germany","15":"tag-humpback-whale","16":"tag-karin-walter-mommert","17":"tag-kattegat-strait","18":"tag-luebeck","19":"tag-mecklenburg-west-pomerania","20":"tag-north-sea","21":"tag-sweden","22":"tag-till-backhaus","23":"tag-walter-gunz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116586067132112907","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}