{"id":84195,"date":"2026-05-17T00:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T00:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/84195\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T00:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T00:52:09","slug":"humpback-whale-found-dead-denmark-identified-timmy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/84195\/","title":{"rendered":"Humpback whale found dead Denmark identified &#8216;Timmy&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTimmy,\u201d the young humpback whale at the center of a European rescue effort, was found dead Thursday off the coast of Denmark, officials have confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities identified Timmy \u2014 who is also referred to as \u201cHope\u201d \u2014 by a tracking device connected to his back.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39402517\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AP_APTOPIX_Germany_Whale_Rescue_44_64-a1a26-0.jpg\" alt=\"An aerial view of a whale in a floating pen attached to a rescue boat.\" class=\"wp-image-39402517\"  \/>Timmy in his barge habitat in happier days AP<\/p>\n<p>\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 <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/germany-denmark-dead-whale-timmy-rescue-c6e3de9fd7dd4a03c2a676b6994d14d8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jane Hansen, head of division at the Danish Environmental Protection Agency<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\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 she added.<\/p>\n<p>Timmy was initially rescued in shallow waters near the German town of Wismar on the Baltic Sea, sick and barely mobile. Timmy gained a massive amount of attention on social media after local outlets reported his condition.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not clear why the whale swam so far away from its Atlantic habitat, although, some speculate that it was chasing a shoal of herring or got lost during migration.<\/p>\n<p>After complex operations failed, a privately funded team \u2014 led by German entrepreneurs Walter Gunz and Karin Walter-Mommert \u2014 rescued Timmy by coaxing it into a barge.<\/p>\n<p>Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania\u2019s environment minister, Till Backhaus, defended the futile mission to save the whale on Saturday, insisting the mammal was given \u201ca last chance to recover its freedom and health,\u201d even if it couldn\u2019t pull through.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39402505\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/RC2AYKAWS66Q-932517744-3.jpg\" alt=\"Rescuers attempting to free a humpback whale stranded on a sandbank.\" class=\"wp-image-39402505\"  \/>Rescuers with Timmy the Whale. REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>He stressed that \u201cacquiescing to the rescue attempt doesn\u2019t constitute criticism of science,\u201d adding that \u201cI think it is absolutely human to use even the smallest chance when life is at stake.<\/p>\n<p>There are no plans to remove the whale from the area or perform a necropsy to determine Timmy\u2019s fate. <\/p>\n<p>With Post wires<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cTimmy,\u201d the young humpback whale at the center of a European rescue effort, was found dead Thursday off&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[40480,27,26,44867,44868,44869,1161],"class_list":["post-84195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-denmark","tag-animal-rescue","tag-danmark","tag-denmark","tag-humpback-whales","tag-marine-life","tag-tragedy","tag-world-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116587183979445038","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84195","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=84195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}