Otterday! And Open Thread
Today’s Asian Short Clawed otters are via the UK’s Telegraph. The triplets were born at Chessington Zoo to parents Guinevere and Lancelot. Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Reading a great [...]
Otterday! And Open Thread.
Julie Zickefoose was thrilled to spot giant Amazon otters in the wild in Guyana. These otters only survive in numbers – and not large numbers, at around 5000 individuals – in Guyana, French Guiana, and Suriname, in a fragile rainforest environment. They’re also at risk because of hunting for their fur. Here are their otterprints. [...]
Otterday! And Open Thread.
Clam doughnuts! This sea otter at Vancouver Aquarium is bashing a circular iceblock to get to the clams frozen inside. Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Reading a great book? Anything [...]
Otterday! And Open Thread.
This orphaned Exmoor otter cub has a wee furry friend. [Via the Telegraph, more on the story here.] Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Reading a great book? Anything in the [...]
Otterday! And open thread.
Nyac, survivor of the Exxon Valdez oil spill and co-star of the Otters Holding Hands video, died late last year. She developed chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, a cancer not previously known in sea otters, but associated with petroleum contact in other animals. Here is a farewell video for her. Please feel free to use this thread [...]
Otterday! And open thread.
Just spotted on Zooborns: these Asian small-clawed river otter twins, born at Seaworld San Diego. Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Reading a great book? Anything in the news that you’d [...]
Otterday! And open thread.
Today’s North American river otters were spied among the ice on the Charles River in Needham, Massachusetts. Boston.com continues: The Charles River Watershed Association hailed the documented presence of otters so close to Boston as a mark of important progress. “It is a sign of the health of the river,” said Rebecca Scibek Wickham, outreach [...]
Otterday! And Open Thread.
Last week it was otters telling a crocodile who’s boss; this week, it’s a coyote. The otters take a brief moment out from playing to smack the stalking coyote down; the coyote rapidly decides that it’s just not worth the effort. Hey was anyone else hooked on Rikki-Tikki-Tavi as a kid? Please feel free to [...]
Otterday! And Open Thread.
Some newcomers to Hoyden may have received the impression, over the past few weeks, that I think otters are cute little cuddly furry things. Nothing could be further from the truth. Vicious little weasels, the lot of them, and I love them for it. Here’s a video of otters showing a crocodile just who’s in [...]
Otterday, and Open Thread
Wildlife photographer Enrique Aguirre snapped this shot of a sea otter with a rusty videocam in Monterey Bay. [h/t to parissite] Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Reading a great book? [...]
Otterday, and Open Thread
This otter, courtesy of IRGlover on flickr, is begging for a caption. (For a simple captioning tool, try roflbot.) Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Reading a great book? Anything in [...]
Otterday, and Open Thread (now Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse discussion)
An otter juggling pebbles. What more could you want on a Saturday morn? Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires, so long as it’s not the subject of an already active thread. (The bushfires are ——–> that way.) What’s on your mind? ~~~ Update: (for those following the [...]
Otterday! And Open Thread.
Today’s otters are on video, creating havoc in a house. I know it’s not exactly candid, but I just love it when they frolic around under the bedspread. [h/t: Mindy]
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Otterday! And Open Thread.
The otter of the week comes from Idahobill2008 on flickr, who has a whole series of great shots of otters and other wildlife.
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