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Timmy, a humpback stranded in Germany 6 weeks ago, was freed after a media outcry. But the whale was in poor health and may already be dead MARTIN ENSERINK I t was presented as a triumph. On 2 May, Timmy, the 12-meter- long humpback whale that lay stranded off Germany’s Baltic coast for more than a month, was released from a water-filled barge that had transported it to freedom in the Skagerrak, the strait between Denmark and Norway, capping a rescue operation that had captivated the public in Germany and around the world. A video showed Timmy spouting water from its blowhole, in what one German tabloid interpreted as a playful goodbye to its rescuers. …