[NohSpinZone]

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes

[corkoman]

you know she bent down and tried to pet it. Its soooo cuuute.

[PIF]

Sea otters nearly went extinct in the early 1900s because of the fur trade.

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Time to return to the good old days ...

[monkeyshine]

These cute things? They couldn't hurt a fly.

They just hurt fish.

[a fool in paradise]

[Flick Lives]

many animals that look cute can be quite the opposite. Hippos are the perfect example. Funny little round ears and a rather goofy looking face, plant-eaters. However, they’re one of the most vicious and territorial animals on the planet. Even crocs steer clear of them.

That’s why I always found the scene in the original Jurassic Park movie where Allen Grant is explaining to the kids that a Brachiosaur is “just like a big cow”. Perhaps it was. Perhaps it was no more aggressive than an elephant, only attacking if you threatened it. Or perhaps it was like a hippo with a permanently bad attitude toward everything non-hippo. For that matter, hippos don’t even seem to like other hippos

[digger48]

They reintroduced them to the rivers in northern Indiana

They wiped out all of the catfish in several farm ponds in the area

My buddy saw one dragging a 10 pound catfish up the bank while he was sitting in his deer stand

Crossbow and a backhoe settled that score

[EC Washington]

Indiana has a River Otter Hunting season in October - 600 tags are sold. People wrote letters to the Governor in protest. He kept season in place.

[4yearlurker]

What...Mr Otter didn't want a kissy pooh?

[blueunicorn6]

Kidnapping, mutilating rapists

They have an open invitation to all Democrat conventions.

[dainbramaged]

I fished commercially in SE Alaska in the early 80's and the sea otters we saw were not as large as the article states, more like 30-40 lbs. Smaller subspecies, I don't know.
However, the river otters around Juneau are huge - I inspected a dead one in the Fish & Game parking lot one time and he easily would have weighed 60 pounds, like a fair sized dog.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

But, “Ring of Bright Water”, a 1969 British-American feature film shows them to be SO friendly!

[Rebelbase]

Otters don’t put up with any monkey business.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_ss1NqzjxI&t=25s&ab_channel=AaronWhitmerAaronWhitmer

Other Otters simply want to play.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_ss1NqzjxI&t=25s&ab_channel=AaronWhitmerAaronWhitmer

[bert]

One morning I was casting with my trusty flyrod called the Blue Gill Slayer, when I noticed something swimming off the bow of my Kayak. It was there then gone. I thought I really didn’t see any thing.

Then several moments later, an otter surfaced right before me. It looked at me and I had a great experience looking at it. It showed no fear and took a good long look.

I was fishing in a small cove that was apparently the otter’s turf.

This encounter was a fantastic reason for going out in the kayak and just being

My brother in law lives several miles upstream on the lake and he has an extreme dislike for the otters. They catch fish and then come up on his dock to eat them. They leave very bad messes behind.

Strangely believe it but otters are yet another example of wildlife adapting to life among the humans. Who’d a thunk it?

[Daffynition]

We have river otters on the CT River in the NEK.

They are fun to watch.

At a distance. Playful critters.