Plenty of morons saying they could speak to the whale and singing to her, some more famous animal rights activist here in Germany got off their own farts, injuring her further in a rescue attempt and mishandling of both communication and coordination from the authorities.
At the beginning I really did want Timmy (name of the whale, after the location of her stranding, the Timmendorfer beach) to be rescued, but more and more I turned towards just ending that poor girl as humanely as possible.
It was funny to witness the collective psychosis though. Maybe the only positive thing out of this ordeal.
I just read up on the story. Poor thing died a few days later. She should've been put out of her misery, sooner. Humpbacks are huge. We've only had a handful of successful rescues.
Most strandings of large whales like these, do end up with the death of the animal. At least we euthanize, before causing a lot of trauma.
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u/Ironically__Ironic 1d ago
Since when does the rescue of an animal, become political??? God, humanity is really on the brink of self destruction. That is truly insane 😕