(February 14, 2012 at 8:27 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: I love river otters too, not just sea otters, but god are they destructive little fucks if they're inside a house. I watched a video that I can't find at the moment of two of them just ripping through a house with incredible energy - worse than ferrets!
But so sweet!
Otters are not inherently nice creatures. They're mating habits often consist of nearly drowning their partner and biting them. Sometimes they go too far and actually drown the other. Other otters have been known to stalk seal pups, rape and drown them (1). So YMMV with them.
I remember doing ocean kayaking once and someone decided to short cut through a kelp patch and startled an otter. It harassed them for five minutes, ramming into the hull, baring it's teeth, and eventually left. Those fangs, meant for cracking shellfish, really are something.
Often what we see and anthropomorphize obfuscates the alien nature of otter culture, which has some nice, by human standards, points and some really nasty ones.
(1) http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...EWS674.dtl
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