Known results of the (long-awaited) autopsy of the humpback whale, which led to national conflict. Network will have harmed your health.
A humpback whale best known in recent times was called Timmy. It weighed around 12 thousand kilos and was stranded for 4 weeks in the Baltic Sea, near Lübeck, in northern Germany.
A risky, expensive and private project made it possible to take it out of the Baltic Sea and place it in open waters in the North Sea, off the coast of Denmark.
Meanwhile, in mid-May, the whale was found near a Danish island.
There was a first phase of distancing, especially because there was a risk of diseases transmitted to humans and a risk of explosion (decomposition generates large volumes of gases).
But now, the first results of the – long awaited – autopsy a Timmy.
As causes of death have not yet been determined. The animal’s decomposition was already at an advanced stage.
Contrary to what was thought, it was a female, Start by highlighting the .
The autopsy also revealed a factor that must have greatly affected his health: a piece of fishing net in your intestine.
The whale’s remains are expected to go to a processing facility in Denmark; the water from the corpse will be treated and then discharged into the fjord; the fat will be transformed into biofuel; the bones, tendons and skin will be crushed until a kind of flour is obtained – and then burned as biomass in a cement plant.
Some of Timmy’s bones are expected to be part of the collection at the Copenhagen Natural History Museum.
The final results of the autopsy are not expected to be released for months.
