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Otter

My new favorite animal is the otter. Well actually, I’m not sure I had a favorite animal until now. You see, a few weeks ago I went to the Denver Aquarium and two little sea otters kept doing back flips in their little cage. Water, air, water, air, water air. Over and over and over again. Perhaps to impress us, perhaps just for fun. Personally I think it was the latter.

Then, tonight, there was a show on the Discovery channel about Yellowstone. A pack (right word?) of otters submarined through a field of snow on their way to the river. Quite clearly they were hungry and seeking their most favorite of traditional otter meals; the spanish call it pescado. Elegant to say the least.

Then I saw this photo as a I was perusing the internets:

I decided to make them my favorites. And that’s that.

Filed by ryanroth at June 1st, 2009 under Life