Here’s what to know about Timmy, the humpback whale that’s sick and stranded in the Baltic Sea

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BERLIN (AP) — A humpback whale’s likely final days in the Baltic Sea have been livestreamed across the globe as multiple rescue efforts failed to coax it back into deeper waters while the marine mammal gets sicker and weaker. Nicknamed Timmy by local media, many fear the whale may soon die in the Baltic Sea’s shallow waters near the eastern German town of Wismar. The animal faces long odds in finding its way back out into the North Sea, a journey of several hundred kilometers (miles), and then t