Overview
- Danish authorities, which confirmed Saturday that the carcass near Anholt is the same humpback, identified it by a tracker recovered from the animal’s back.
- The agencies urged people to stay away from the corpse because decomposing whales can carry diseases and can build gases that may explode.
- Officials said there are no current plans to remove the carcass or conduct an autopsy, noting the whale is not seen as a local hazard at this time.
- Photos and reports described a bloodied back and a sectioned tail with gulls feeding, and Danish experts suggested the whale may have been dead for some time.
- The whale stranded in Germany on March 23 and was released on May 2 after a last‑chance barge operation bankrolled by entrepreneurs Karin Walter‑Mommert and Walter Gunz, a move some scientists criticized as risky and opaque after GPS contact was later lost.