Not sleeping soggy ferrets!

Overread · Feb 15, 2017

Otherwise known as OTTERS - in this case asian short-clawed otters!

All taken at Africa Alive - otherwise known as Kesingland Zoo.

As always any comments/crits welcome!

tirediron · Feb 15, 2017

Cute lil fellers!

limr · Feb 15, 2017

Water cat snakes! Their hands and fingers are much more human-like than I'd ever realized. Kinda freaky

I thought the last shot was my favorite, but now I'm leaning towards the second-to-last.

Overread · Feb 15, 2017

Thanks all

They are really good with their paws and fingers! Before the feed they (there are two in the pen) were running around their enclosure squeaking away for food. One was passing a section of rocks and picked up a pebble; and despite being totally focused on squeaking and looking at people for food, was fiddling with the stone in its paw; clutching it up and even carrying it around for a bit. Much like you'd see someone chatting whilst fiddling with a pen.

Note - otters like stones and you can oft see them playing with them. Both as a toy, but also because they'll use them as a tool to bash on clams and other shellfishy things to get at the food within!

pjaye · Feb 15, 2017

Otters!!!!! I absolutely love them. The second to last is my absolute favorite but it's a great set!

ZombiesniperJr · Feb 15, 2017

Nice set

Overread · Feb 15, 2017

Thanks both

You know I wasn't happy with the second to last shot; pose is nice but there was a lot of foreground rock and foreground blurred objects really distract me visually - so it really heartening to hear several of you really liking that shot of them all!

pixmedic · Feb 15, 2017

So cute! And they actually move around!
#1 is my favorite

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Overread · Feb 16, 2017

The secret to getting them to go nuts is to feed them a treat (fish) every day at the same time (or so) the hour before they run around like nutters squeaking for their fish!