The Charisma Continues: Asian Small-Clawed Otters (part one)

I love the clownish sincerity of otters—their adorable, slightly buffoonish concentration as they play with shells or rocks, dive for food, or carry grasses in their mouths back to their sleeping sites. I think that’s often best illustrated in photos when the subject is an otter on its own (I would say it’s “otterly alone,” but that would be a particularly sad pun and also not very accurate—there are always other otters in the exhibit). So, feast your eyes on these individual otters as they…

Scratch:


Investigate:


Make funny faces while eating:




Swim:


Play with shells, rocks, or a black walnut:




And pose:


Could they get any cuter? I ask you.

More otters to come!

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