A humpback whale found dead this week off a Danish island has been identified as the animal released two weeks ago in a spectacular and contentious rescue effort, after repeatedly becoming stranded off Germany’s Baltic Sea coast, authorities said Saturday.
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The humane thing would have been to leave him be where he stranded, but the German (social) media turned him into some kind of symbol, so anyone proposing to end his suffering was met with death threats themselves.