OlyShipp

By OlyShipp

The spotted otter / Der erdenktete Otter

Some fun facts about otters:
* The words ‘otter’ and ‘water’ have the same root
* They are basically our best friends: females are bitches, males are dogs, young are pups
* Despite that, until the 1960s some people in England still hunted otters, particularly prizing the penis bones, which were used as tie pins...
* Otters have the right idea: they live on a ‘couch’, in groups called ‘bevvies’, and eat 15% of their body weight every day!

(From Wikipedia, so must be true).

I’ve convinced myself this picture is a spotted-necked otter, unless anyone knows any different?

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