>tfw no colossal otter cryptids

>>3542 Is that a screenshot from the show? If so then oh my goodness it looks adorable!
I don't know off the top of my mind where to find it, but I've got a lot of sources I can check to find it. I'll report back within the next couple of days

It's from a game, but today I was watching my friend play Genshin and learned they added otters to the game recently! They're super cute.

>>3755
I spied another game otter! It's just on a poster, but still

So neat to see otter in media, I just wish there were more of them!

Can-Otter Alliance

>>3794
Car-Otter Alliance

Ar-Otter Alliance

>>3911
did you make this yourself? It looks good

>>3072
Yeah it's definitely up there. A towering performance that really rises to a high standard

>>3071
A firmly established otter and a pillar of his community

>>3886
Since otters walk on all fours, would an otter doing curls be considered arm day or leg day?

>>3903
Otters' forelimbs are sometimes legs and sometimes arms
In this picture he's using them as arms so I'd call it arm day

Thanks for the otters, I'm feeling a little better

>>3843
I'm glad you're feeling better, I hope this year is a little kinder to you.

>>3843
That's good to hear. Here's hoping that it can keep on getting a little better as time goes on

>>3814
Every Friday is a good day to celebrate otters! I hope everyone had a great Friday

>>3814
This last Friday was a good one, and I certainly felt ottery with the amount of time that I spent in a creek

>>3816
Story time? What were you doing in the creek? I'm interested

>>3842
Oh, nothing all to interesting. I was out doing some frisbee golfing with friends, I'd had a bit much to drink, and I fell into a creek that goes through multiple runs. It was really funny at the time, but it's become less so since it happened.

>>3881
Sounds like it was a fun time, and otters are all about having fun afterall, so along with the creek time it was certainly a very ottery day.

>4 toes

not an otter

>>3873
He's trying his best...

>>3790
Yeah that's right, never abandon your kids somewhere they aren't (or don't feel safe)... Mom is always close by and she knows what she's doing, the cub is never really in danger even if he feels it. Otter mums know how to keep that balance.

>Along with mothering multiple pups throughout their lifetimes, sea otter moms do it single-handedly. They are truly “single mothers”, with no child support or help with pup-rearing from dad.

This saddens me, the OP pic made me think otters mate and stick together for life.

>>3795
It depends on the species! Sea otters might be mostly solitary, but marine otters mate for life, the otters of Singapore group together in related clans to hunt and raise the little ones together, giant otters and Asian small clawed otters often live in little family groups of the parents and their young. I think those are small clawed otters in the pick, so probably some parenting teamwork goin on there.

>>3796
This is reassuring, thank you. Otter pups deserve the best possible life.
Tangent: I am learning so much from this captcha system too.

>>3797
Otter parents know what the best situation is for their pups.

>>3791
I can definitely go post some otties over there, glad that otterchan is making waves and giving off a good example

>>3787
Always a joy to hear about new otters, and this is even better than usual!
Surfers beware, 841 and 841 Jr are on the prowl!

Can an otter wear sandals, or only flip flops?

Welcome

>>3773
Good to have you here

>>3775
Paw bumps!

>>3762
#3 seems like the most fun!

Have you guys got a website?

>>3539 In South America we have four species, however in RN there is only a record of the Neotropical Otter, so conservation work is carried out only with this species. More information: www.projetolontraviva.org

>>3764
Link isn't working for me :(

>>3765
This one works for me https://projeto-lontra-viva.negocio.site/

>>3767
Yes, that works! Thank you

>>3151
Don't they get dizzy from all that rotation?

>>3155
I think they do eventually, but they can tolerate it for a while. I guess that's why they don't spin for very long.

>>3156
Spinning is fun, but you gotta be careful.

Please be aware of sea otters. Their week has arrived once more

>>3763
I was very aware of sea otters this week, it was a good time. I hope everyone else had a good week too!

I wonder how hard it is to spot a spotted necked otter who's in his favorite spot?

Does a spotted necked otter know that his neck is spotted?

>>3756
Spotted neck otters are excellent spotters, so I think most could spot when they're neck has been spotted. But I'm sure there are some younger otters whose spotting skills are spotty at best, they might not know.

If a spotted necked otter's neck is spotted and no one is around to spot it, does it have spots?

>>3758
Well how can it be spotted if no one is around to spot it! Of course the question remains, if you spot the otter but don't spot their spots, are they still spotted?

>>3483
These are great! Thank you ottmin!

>>3483
I love these little otters! Is there a way we can download the full-res versions of them too?

>>3513
Oh, they're all from different pics that were posted here over time. I'm sure you'll be able to find most of them around here

News are broken right now, seems Google broke their alert feeds. Gonna have to either wait for a fix or switch to another service, can't do much apart from that.

^ my email here

Go 841! Don't let the man keep you down, stick and move!

Woohoo!
May she continue her surfing days for years to come.

>>3722

>But support for a live-and-let-live approach is growing with each unsuccessful attempt.

Any updates on if this is going anywhere? I know she's getting support from the general public, but I think that Fish and Game might still be trying to hunt her down

>>3744
I checked the news and I don't see any updates on this so I believe she's at large, but I also assume they're still trying to bring her in. It has been a fun story to follow, it reminds me of when we learned about bank robbers in school who were cheered by the public.

Whoa look at him go! He deserved that fishy

>>1597
He hunted through all those fishies just to find the single most delicious one!

It only takes one otter to frighten a thousand fish.

>>2163 It looks like it knows what's about to happen.

>>2163 :o

Hah! An-otter otter thread! How fun!

An otter will usually eat a fish head first so that it's killed and doesn't flop away

This one looks like he caught a bird

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>>1997
FASTER

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>>161

>I'd post WebMs too, but I guess you can't do that here.

You can now :)

Ah whoops, this was supposed to be in the general thread. Must've accidentally posted in on its own

That's alright it deserves its own thread anyway!

>>3700 I don't believe in the whole "everything in one thread" thing tbh. This totally should be a thread, just like the sea otter stealing surfboards story. And >>118 should just be a place to say hi

>>3708
You know, you're absolutely right. I just posted in the general thread because I didn't know if this was a big enough deal to make its own thread, but now I wish that I had put it all in its own place from the start. Oh well, learning experience for next time.

>>3711
S'alright, we all had enjoyed it regardless you live and you learn, as otters do

I can understand why someone might find otters scary. The pitch black eyes, the sharp fangs, and the way they prey at night... Little river monsters... Brr... (still love them though)

>>3680
Hmm, like a yokai?

>>3682
I didn't know there was an otter yokai, that's so neat! https://yokai.fandom.com/wiki/Kawauso

>>3683
>>3682
I didn't know either. Well that explains this picture that I have.

I recently started playing Sakuna: of Rice and Ruin and there's a tribe of beast people that might be based on otters? The game doesn't say outright (at least not as far as I've gotten into the game), though there's one time when someone calls one of them a "weasel" but that might have just been an insult. They look like some kind of mustelid and are described as living mostly by rivers. They're called the Ashigumo and are pretty cool, though most of the tribe was wiped out and now persists as undead specters which are definitely very spooky.

I don't know all of the answers, but I imagine it rests largely on local features. Maybe there're particular spots with enough water for otters due to rivers that surrounding areas don't have. I am also curious about the Indian and Malaysian spots though

I know their range in Norway is somewhat spotty. North of Bergen their coastal population is viable and I really wanna make a sadafari trip there to spot some. Otherwise southwards their coastal population have never made a real comeback after the acidic precipitation of earlier times. Inlands is nothing to speak of as of yet except a small populations. I really hope they make a comeback inlands as well and outcompetes the american mink

>>3536
I was looking at a map of the orca population recently, and I noticed how the population is depicted as being present around islands but not in the sea between those islands and the coasts. I wondered at the time if that was because they might just travel across deeper waters but live mostly in costal waters, but it could also be that coasts are where people are to spot orcas.

Point is, I'm wondering if some of the oddities of this map are being driven by humans being in the area to spot otters, or the population being able to identify an otter as an otter and not some other small wildlife. Otters can be sneaky after all, an otter in the underbrush at night would certainly be hard to ID.

>>3641

>Otters can be sneaky after all, an otter in the underbrush at night would certainly be hard to ID

Now this is definitely true! Otters are super sneaky, and most people aren't in tune enough with nature to pay attention to when there's an otter.
pic related

>>3522
That's a great idea! Yeah, the page is completely empty as of now apart from a link. What information do you think should be included in particular? Needs to have some solid facts of course, all about the harm it's doing to the species but also about how hard it is to keep an otter as a pet.

>>3524
I think the biggest thing we should talk about is the harm that the pet otter trade causes to wild otters. I've heard a lot of talk about how poachers kill adult otters for pelts and steal babies for being pets, so that's definitely something to talk about. I also know that there have been a couple of studies of otter cafes and how they're totally unable to care for their otters, so maybe we bring that up somehow?

>>3527
I agree, that's definitely worth mentioning. IMO it's good to keep it short and sweet and get the point across. Why don't we both think about it and write something up? Maybe we can make it into a graphic, too.

>>3528
Sounds like a plan, I'll write something up tonight

Hey, did we ever finish something?