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- Divers retrieved a tracking device from the carcass, confirming it is the humpback whale rescued in Germany on May 2.
- Authorities said they will not remove the carcass or conduct a necropsy after “Timmy” was found dead off Denmark’s island of Anholt on May 14.
- Danish Environmental Protection Agency, noting that entrepreneurs Karin Walter-Mommert and Walter Gunz led the rescue, warned the public to keep a distance because of disease risk and gas explosion.
