Animals|According to the police, the wounds on the whale’s side that raised the suspicions of animal protection organizations were superficial.
in Norway police said on Monday that an autopsy found no signs that a milk whale suspected of being a Russian-trained spy had been shot to death.
The “spy whale” was found dead off the coast of Norway at the end of August. One Whale and Noah animal protection organizations announced last week suspecting that the whale was killed by shooting. The organizations made an investigation request to the police.
Norwegian The Veterinary Institute performed an autopsy on the whale. According to the police, nothing in the preliminary report suggests that the whale’s death was caused by human activity. The police are not going to start an investigation into the whale’s death.
According to the police, the wounds on the whale’s side that raised the suspicions of the organizations were superficial and not life-threatening. According to the police, the whale may have died of starvation. A stick was found stuck in the whale’s mouth, its stomach was empty and its organs were in poor condition.
The animal was relatively young for a milk whale.
of the Noah organization according to the police statement raises more questions than it answers. The organization says it is offering a reward of around 4,000 euros for information about the whale’s cause of death.
Doubts about the whale’s spy background arose in 2019, when marine biologists spotted the animal in the waters of the Finnmark region in northern Norway. At the time, the animal had a kind of harness to which it would be possible to attach an underwater camera. According to the text on the harness, they belonged to the city of St. Petersburg. The whale also seemed to be used to people.
Russia has never officially commented on the claims about the whale’s background.
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