Anholt (Denmark) – The whole of Germany was worried about the humpback whale Timmy, who was stuck in the Baltic Sea. After the expensive rescue, the weakened animal was released and washed up dead in Denmark a short time later. Timmy’s remains are now being processed in a factory.
As a spokesman confirmed, the company “Daka Denmark” takes over the whale carcass and processes it in a factory in Randers. The whale remains are therefore separated into three components. The water is cleaned and discharged into the fjord. The fat, for example from the animal’s blubber layer, is processed into biodiesel. At the company’s factory in Randers, the remains of whales like “Timmy” are first separated into three components, according to a spokesman. The water is cleaned and discharged into the fjord. All fat – for example from the whale’s blubber layer – is converted into biodiesel. The rest becomes a kind of flour. The biomass is then used in combustion in a cement factory. However, some bones of the famous humpback whale should be preserved for posterity. They go into the collection of the Natural History Museum in Copenhagen.
At the beginning of March, Timmy was spotted for the first time in the Baltic Sea near Wismar. Rescuers freed him from fishing nets in which Timmy had become entangled. About three weeks later, the animal stranded off Timmendorfer Strand. Thanks to a dredged channel, the whale was able to free itself, but later repeatedly ended up on sandbanks. Finally he ends up stranded off the island of Poel. A private rescue initiative by millionaires Karin Walter-Mommert and MediaMarkt founder Walter Gunz manages to pull the humpback whale into the sea with a special ship. Contrary to all agreements, he was apparently released too early on May 2nd. 13 days later, the animal floats dead off the Danish island of Anholt.
During the autopsy on the beach it was clear that Timmy was a female and had parasites in her organs. Further laboratory tests will show whether these caused the death of the weakened animal. The results are expected in six months. The tracker Timmy was wearing was found. All of the data is available to the rescue initiative and some is available to the Ministry of the Environment in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. A spokeswoman: “The data should be evaluated as quickly as possible. As soon as this has happened, the public will be informed of the resulting findings.”