Autopsy results after the sudden death of the popular white whale called Hvaldimir, who swam from Russia into the hearts of Norwegians five years ago, indicate he wasn’t shot. Bloody injuries on his carcass were not bullet holes, report police, rather superficial flesh wounds.
“We have received a preliminary autopsy report from the Veterinary Institute,” wrote Amund Preede Revheim of the Southwest Police unit in a press release on Monday, “and this are no signs he was shot.”
The report shows the whale’s stomach was empty and most of his organs had broken down. A stake measuring around 35 centimeters long and three centimeters wide was found stuck in the whale’s mouth, though, raising new questions for the animal rights activists who had called for a police investigation.
Police said a final autopsy report was due in two weeks, but they now have no reason to launch an investigation into the whale’s death.
NewsinEnglish.no staff
