Off the top of my head

• wydra in polish and other slavic languages
• sudal in korean
• kawauso in japanese
• loutre in french
• lontra in italiano
• tha'leb el ma` in arabic
• saukko in finish
• su samuru in Turkish
• kunduz in kazakh and some central asian languages (also means beaver)
• nutria in spanish
• rai ca in vietnamese (pronounced sai ta)
• fisi maji in (pretty sure it was) swahili

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Forgot memerang in Malay and berang-berang in Indonesian

>>4135
This sounds cool, I would also be interested in seeing the sheet if anyone has it

Just dropping in to say the alleged manifesto of the CEO assassin mentions otters.

>>4117
If you're going to remember one thing, there's nothing better than for it to be otters.

Happy New Year otterfriends. I hope its a great one for all of you!

Otterposting in 2025!

If only I had 2025 otters to post

It's always sad when an otter passes away but they had lived a long time and at least they didnt suffer in the end. He certainly was the cool uncle, such an ambassador, he will be missed.

>>4131
Im game, as always, though if youd rather hang with your people thats a ok too. It will be a happy new year regardless

>>4132
Sure, I'll keep you posted. I'm still not even really sure how this new year's event works in Party Animals. If you're the person on my friends list I can probably even invite you if I do end up in someone else's custom game and they're fine with it. You can message people on your friends list, I'm pretty sure.

I haven't received a reply from the German streamer so I'll just go and make the lobby at 23:00 CET. I hope you'll join.

Who can I add? I'm on the free version.

You can add me. My friend ID is JHK4DD.

It's ottercine time again :) The month really flew by didn't it? I think we have the things from >>4100 that we can watch, as well as the really long one from >>4099 and of course if anyone has anything they found that they would like to watch. I'm looking forward to talking with everyone

Don't forget that the daylight has been saved! If youre in a country that saves daylight, ottercinne will be earlier this month than it was last

I'd like to suggest Grizzly Man this Sunday, it's about a guy who lived with Grizzly Bears in Alaska (which are basically big otters)! I think you'd all enjoy it like I did.

>>4128
Isnt that the one where the guy gets eaten? kinda grim fare. I could watch it if its available somewhere and people want to though

Did we see this one? it says it was uploaded recently but i remember a doc about otters in shetland before. https://youtu.be/bB9vdw3W6AY?si=k5mCSul8rvR2XZtJ

we also still have most of the long one from >>4099 to watch

>>4129
Yeah, it's on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efNtliiyT3M It's okay if we watch it another time or not at all, though.

I don't recall that we've seen that shetland otter docu before. Even if we did won't hurt to re watch

Why would we do that?

>>3894
not*, not now. Ug, I'm sure an otter would be a better typist than me.

>>3892
Go on...

>>3906

>>3889
Lol, the site was broken during that and everyone was getting autobanned, it would have been nice to see one or two otters on the catalog though, you guys are always welcome
We should have the site up and running like normal in a few days

I struck me how I thought ASCO's range included Japan, but when I check the map they aren't even close. They just seem to be so popular over there.
Anyways, is there a manga where otters are featured prominently?

>>3974
Never forget the Japanese otter..

So sad they went extinct, maybe as cloning technology progresses there might be hope to restore the species if there are enough DNA samples left

Today I learned that final fantasy 14 has a cute little otter pet you can summon to follow you around. I didn't really vibe with FF14 but a friend of mine says she might try it just for the chance to have an otter so I may wind up joining her.

MFW Otterchat. You're all wonderful

One of the otters at Lincolnshire Wildlife Park looks like this.

>>3898
That's a good lookin otter right there!

Autumn is officially here.

(Photo: Graham William Hughes)

So we have leaves on heads, but what about flowers below noses? Could be worth additional research.

>>4104
Interesting proposal. I only have this specimen, but the flower is slightly above the nose. Do you have some more examples?

>>4110
I found this one! Also a lot of AI art and some art I can't tell is AI or not.

>>4111
It is getting harder to find real otter photos...

They've got two new young otters at the sanctuary! Hansel and Gretel were taken in as orphaned cubs a couple of weeks ago. Aren't they the cutest pair of otts you ever did see?

>>3161
Aww, they're so cute! I'm sure they're gonna be getting the best care with the UKWOT

More UKWOT news, a kind soul has donated land so they will have more space to care for otters. It'll take a few years to have it up to full speed, but it looks like it will more than double the amount of enclosures they have which is fantastic https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g5p4yngzno

>>4105
That's wonderful news! Especially great to hear they won't have to turn any otters away anymore.

>>4106
Exactly! I was surprised to hear about them in the news and very happy that it was good news to be shared :)

>>3459
Does a pile of all piles contain itself?

What if you look down and instead of the floor, it's otters?

>>4098
If the floor was otters i would be scared to step anywhere. I guess I would have to call in sick to work and hang with the otts.

>>4101
Oh, I imagine they'd carry you wherever you wanna go. Floating on a cloud of otters...

>>4102
Hmm, good point. though id feel bad making them carry me anywhere. maybe we could take turns, they carry me for a while, i carry them for a while. Then in the end we celebrate a day well lived with fish.

>>2250
This otter has a bowling ball

>>4024
woah, they look very skilled. I was never very good at bowling, but otters probably would be.

>>4025
You can see him here, having vanquished the pins

>>4095
Woah! What a cool looking fish! Nature never ceases to amaze

Why hasn't anyone posted a pic with an otter in it in this thread yet?

>>4002
Otters are very sneaky, I have confidence we will get to see one someday!

Tolga peeking

These otters have disguised themselves as salamanders, but they cant fool us because they have "otter" in their name. Silly otters! https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240904-hellbenders-saving-the-threatened-lasagne-lizard-from-extinction

Too bad nobody came. Maybe I should just do it on Saturday. Hopefully there will be more people then.

>>4085
I'm sorry for not showing, I just have less and less time these days. Unfortunately it's also looking like I won't be able to make it to the videos on Sunday. I promise that I can be counted among the ranks of Otterchat lovers!

I feel really bad that I only just saw this post now ;-; Sadly I do not have game pass and crossplay looks to be limited to PC and xbox players, but I will totally get the game on steam if I can still join in tomorrow? This seems like a really cute idea and I love it but it is also kindof short notice, we dont get a ton of daily traffic. Would love to see more stuff like this!

>>4085
I thought you were going to run it again on Sunday, I missed out on that too.

>>4078
I tried to join on saturday but there was a tutorial and it took longer than expected and then i was five minutes late and then I couldn't find a lobby. i probably should have posted here but I didnt because I was silly

Wow that gif is way too big. Here, optimized

I've seen videos of otters hugging people, but you probably shouldn't try too hard for it. If an otter wants to hug you, then he will. If he doesn't, then you're in for a world of hurt!

This isn't quite a full hug, but it's kinda like one

This be kind of a hug ? (Zoo Lodz)

Whatcha squeaking about?

This is good wisdom

>>207

>What do you think?

Agreed 100% The inquisitiveness of otters is what drives them into so many "stupid" situations, whereas simpler animals just don't have the same curiosity about the world. A fish, for instance, is going to live its simple fish life and not be overly curious about changes in their environment past how it immediately relates to their capacity to find food or be safe from predators. On the other hand, when an otter notices that his environment has changed somehow, he immediately jumps to investigating it, even if it doesn't at all impact his ability to hunt or stay safe. And this is why fish are otter fuel, and otters are not fish fuel.

^This! Otters are curious and thus mischievous. They live in complex habitats with a lot of varied food sources where they benefit from being curious. Sometimes I suppose their curiosty gets the best of them lol

>>3926
Curious
Mischievous
Piscivorous
Mischipiscicurivous

>>4032
Gotta add in voracious now

Mischipiscicurivororacious?

Really lovely photo! Thanks for sharing it.

Are you into photography?

It's a very good picture. They look so smooth.

>>4052
Why would they want to? Civilizations are yucky.

>>4053
not if they're good societies and civilisations

>>4054
And otters seem like they would make good civilizations

Otters have a good civilization

It's called otters

Already perfect the way it is

>>4056
I can think one way way to improve it, though, with more otters
https://youtu.be/4De_rISpW0s?si=80l_1bqJ3rIBqsX5

Otters are usually very busy, it's good to see they also get some time to rest

>>4004
That depends on if it's in the water or on land,

In the water sea otters swim on there backs, so a sea otter on its stomach would be an upside down otter

But on land sea otters walk on their feet, so a sea otter on its back on land would be an upside down otter

An otter is an upside down otter if it would usually be the other way up in the given context

>>4045
What about an otter doing a headstand?

>>4046
That's a spiral shaped otter, a category into itself

>>4047
Otters come in so many shapes, they are really quite amazing!

Happy world otter day everyone! I just got off work and I ordered pizza, it's gonna be an ottery day. I hope it's a great one for you all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2v_piztkBGo

>>2516
Oh, that's still a nice theory though, and it does make sense. Maybe there's another explanation though.
You were studying to become a neurosurgeon? That's really cool, how's life been going since you dropped out? I hope you found your calling.

>>2518
I'm glad you think it's reasonable, it's the best explanation that I could come up with for why there'd be a ridge like that in that specific area. And technically, I wasn't studying to be a neurosurgeon, that's just the specialization that I was looking at before I dropped out of med school. But that's neither here nor there, I suppose. Life's been fine since then though, I'm looking at becoming a teacher of some sort, probably teaching English if I can do what I want.

Other carnivores have the same thing going on, I noticed
Dogs have it too, bears have it, raccoons have it, cats maybe to a lesser extent.

>>2901
Now I'd really like to know what's going on. Maybe this is just how the frontal/parietal bone grows in carnivores?

Found an interesting article on otter intelligence here. It even gives a brief bit on the brain structure
https://inotterwords.com/2019/11/07/life-through-the-eyes-of-an-otter/

The ottercine thread was right there silly...