• Marine biologists criticize the privately funded rescue operation of a humpback whale, estimated at €1.5 million, after the tracker attached to the whale failed.
  • The whale, nicknamed Timmy, was stranded for weeks off Germany’s Baltic coast, and its fate remains unknown after release into Danish waters.
  • The German Oceanographic Museum in Stralsund believes the whale is ‘highly likely’ dead and called for release of tracker data.
  • Danish marine biologist Peter Madsen called the lack of data ‘very strange and unprofessional’.
  • Initiative owner Karin Walter-Mommert confirmed the tracker is not working, which some experts had disputed from the start.

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