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Timmy the humpback whale is presumed to have died after being released into a shipping lane

The entrepreneur-funded rescue effort said that it had fitted the previously stranded whale with a tracking device but this is suspected to be untrue.

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Timmy the humpback whale is presumed to have died after being released into a shipping laneThe entrepreneur-funded rescue effort said that it had fitted the previously stranded whale with a tracking device but this is suspected to be untrue.
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