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Otterday! And Open Thread.

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Today’s otter is having a scritch in the sunlight at the London Zoo. Snapped by Esther Simpson.

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Today’s otter is coming at you from The Independent, which describes how the competing interests of otters and anglers are being sorted out in the UK over recent years.

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Otterday comes early this weekend, because of the public holiday! (But not tooo early, on account of *zzzzzzzzzzzzzz*.)

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This is part of a series of photos showing otters playing with stones a la an old-fashioned deportment school.

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Today’s otter comes from a 2008 story in the Orlando Sentinel about a wildlife rehabilitation service rescuing baby river otters. This little one could be raising its own babies in the wild by now.

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Today’s otters are brought to you via the Telegraph: “Guinevere and Lancelot, Asian short clawed otters at Chessington zoo, ferry their six-week-old triplets away from the water’s edge”.