A young male humpback whale remains stranded on a sandbank in the Bay of Lübeck near the Niendorf district of Timmendorfer Strand as rescue efforts continue following failed attempts to free the animal during high tide.Experts from the Institute for Terrestrial and Aquatic Wildlife Research at the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover are collaborating with police, the fire department, and volunteers to monitor the situation using boats and drones.While humpback populations in the European Atlantic have increased to roughly one million four hundred thousand, their presence in the Baltic Sea is rare because the shallow, narrow passages make navigation difficult for large species accustomed to