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Recent Examples of ottersAnd all of a sudden, an otter comes right up to the glass and begins interacting with them, soon joined by a second otter.—Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025 After a long day, the otter rests in bed with his owner, Hadsell.—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 19 Aug. 2025 Swift herself broke back in to say that Kelce doesn’t want to take an otter out of the wild, as in taking a pup from its mother.—Martha Ross, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2025 The podcast conversation was not limited to music, however, the couple (and his brother) covered a range of topics, everything from Swift's newfound love of football, an obsession for baking sourdough loaves, watching otter videos, her parents' health and the start of the superstars' relationship.—Rebecca Cohen, NBC news, 14 Aug. 2025 The feces revealed that crabs and finfish were the staples of otter diets, making up 93 percent of all prey items based on the DNA analysis.—Laura Baisas Aug 14, Popular Science, 14 Aug. 2025 Yeah, Kelce likes otter videos.—Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 14 Aug. 2025 Having children can be such a basically animal experience that to read about it as performed by otter, whale, or even bird all seems relevant.—Ellyn Gaydos
august 11, Literary Hub, 11 Aug. 2025 An otter captured in a box also plays a key role in the film.—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
In fact, the seals landed in the same statistical range as nursery rhymes, where repetition and predictability help a message carry and be remembered.
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Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
11 Sep. 2025
Still, Drury said, make sure to drive it in the rain, too, before buying it to see whether there are any leaky seals or foggy headlights or taillights.
Ksenia, whom Baranov meets at a hedonistic party in the early 1990s as counterculturals rage amid the dawn of a new, post-USSR Russian era, is indicated as a grifting wild thing, the type who always has a mysterious male benefactor to keep her in minks.
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Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
31 Aug. 2025
On the smaller side, species like the river otter and mink can be found feasting on fish by the water’s edge, while lucky visitors may catch a glimpse of a wolverine roaming the tundra—and these are far from the only predators that call Katmai home.
Have fun sticking it to the man—or the raccoon, as the case may be.
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ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
12 Sep. 2025
Both viruses are highly contagious and often fatal to mammals, such as dogs and raccoons, according to information from the Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine and the American Veterinary Medical Association.
The short season, when thousands of fishers and crew live on Bristol Bay, home of the world’s largest sockeye population, for about six short weeks, others processing on land, provides the global supply of sockeye salmon for the entire year to come.
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Andrew Watman,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
Through radio and snow tracking, biologists later found that the fishers that were released in northwestern Connecticut had high survival rates and successfully reproduced.
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Stephen Underwood,
Hartford Courant,
5 Aug. 2025
By the 1920s and '30s, fox skins draped around the shoulders or fashioned into capes were especially beloved.
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Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Sep. 2025
The playful creatures are prey to foxes, jaguars, and even at times humans, but tend to eat insects, plants, roots and smaller vertebrates, the zoo said.
His real name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio; his stage name, as fans later learned, was inspired by a childhood photograph that captured him, scowling, in a rabbit costume.
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Kelefa Sanneh,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
Butterflies and other pollinators are common visitors, while deer and rabbits leave this plant alone.
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