The Decomposition of a Beached Whale Draws Macabre Attention in Denmark
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Sabrina Imbler
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A dead humpback whale named Timmy beached on the Danish island of Anholt, and its decomposing body has been slowly ballooning from internal gas buildup. The situation has drawn morbid attention, including a German TV channel livestreaming the carcass and including a suicide hotline number. The article covers the grim spectacle and the unusual public reaction to the decaying whale.
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Timmy's body, skin taut and distended by gases, now lolls around a sandbank a short distance from the beach and drifting in the shallow waves.
As one German television channel aired a livestream of its dead body, the channel included the number of a suicide
When the dead body of Timmy the humpback whale beached itself last week off the shores of the Danish island of Anholt, it was only a matter of time before Timmy would risk of the fate that befalls many a beached whale: The residents of Anholt, per the BBC
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