{"id":9606,"date":"2026-05-02T08:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T08:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/9606\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T08:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T08:54:12","slug":"humpback-whale-timmy-released-in-the-north-sea-after-weeks-stranded-off-germany-wral-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/9606\/","title":{"rendered":"Humpback whale &#8216;Timmy&#8217; released in the North Sea after weeks stranded off Germany :: WRAL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN (AP) \u2014 A rescue team on Saturday released from a barge in the North Sea a humpback whale that had been stranded in shallow waters near Germany since March, witnesses said.<\/p>\n<p>Nicknamed Timmy by German media, the whale was spotted swimming near Germany\u2019s Baltic Sea coast on March 3, far from its natural habitat in the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>The mammal\u2019s health deteriorated as it became repeatedly stranded in shallow waters, and unsuccessful efforts to coax it toward deeper seas were live-streamed across the globe.<\/p>\n<p>The environment minister for Germany\u2019s Mecklenburg Vorpommern gave the green light for the attempt to save the whale, proposed by a private initiative, despite some warnings from the scientific community that it may be too much for the animal.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERLIN (AP) \u2014 A rescue team on Saturday released from a barge in the North Sea a humpback&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[954,4266,955,953,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-9606","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-ap-climate-and-environment","9":"tag-ap-science","10":"tag-ap-world-news","11":"tag-associated-press","12":"tag-germany"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}