Overview
- Danish officials confirmed the identity Saturday after staff recovered a tracker from the carcass near Anholt in the Kattegat strait.
- Authorities said there are no current plans to remove the body or conduct an autopsy and urged people to stay away due to disease and blast risks from decomposition.
- Timmy had been stranded in Baltic shallows for weeks before a privately funded team moved the whale by barge and released it on May 2 about 70 kilometers north of Skagen.
- The operation cost more than €1.5 million and was bankrolled by entrepreneurs Walter Gunz and Karin Walter-Mommert, who had promised but did not provide post-release tracking data.
- Marine scientists had warned the whale was gravely ill, noting long immobility, irregular breathing, and skin damage from the Baltic’s low salinity, and some said the transfer would only add to its suffering.