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On California's river otters: 'The cutest vicious devils you'll ever see'
SF Gate ^ | May 13, 2021 | By Ashley Harrell

Posted on 05/14/2021 7:30:14 AM PDT by NohSpinZone

Sea otters weigh about 50 to 70 pounds, they float on their backs and they spend most of their lives in the ocean. River otters are two or three times smaller, they swim with their bellies down and they live mostly on land but travel by water to find food. Sea otters nearly went extinct in the early 1900s because of the fur trade. River otters are common and of “least concern” in California, but are threatened or endangered in some other states.

But Heath offered a warning. “They’ll hiss at you if you get too close,” she said. “They’re vicious little critters.”

That information wasn’t a complete surprise, as I had heard about the river otter attack at Manzanita Lake last summer that sent a visitor to the hospital with severe wounds to the face. I told Heath about it, and she nodded.

“They go for your eyes, for your eyeballs,” she said.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Local News; Pets/Animals; Society
KEYWORDS: attack; california; lassen; riverotters
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To: bert
Remember the Exon Valdez oil spill?

Well, commercial fisherman hate the otters....coz they get tangled in the nets/lines.

A lot of shoot, shovel, shut up went on with the fishermen,even w/ the rehabed otters, after the oil spill.

41 posted on 05/18/2021 11:16:24 PM PDT by Daffynition (*Mega Dittoes and Mega Prayers* & :))
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They are fun to watch.

At a distance. Playful critters.

Unlike beavers, they just don't give a dam.

42 posted on 05/19/2021 4:28:09 AM PDT by Ezekiel ("Come fly with US". Ingenuity-- because the Son of David begins with Mars.)
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43 posted on 05/19/2021 7:26:10 AM PDT by Daffynition (*Mega Dittoes and Mega Prayers* & :))
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