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Sometimes otters end up in places where you wouldn't expect them.
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>It emptied a cupboard but, other than that, there was nothing smashed or broken, remarkable reallyA very considerate guest, the otter!
It emptied a cupboard but,
Other than that, there was nothing smashed or broken,
Remarkable really
Speaking of otters in unusual places, have you heard about the wild Asian small clawed-otter population living in Britain?
What!? Where is this? Please tell me more :O
Apparently, there is (or was) a small population around Oxford after some of them escaped from captivity, and they were quite successful. I found an article about it here
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/asian-otters-thrive-in-chilly-oxford-river-1346844.html
1996I would certainly be impressed if that population has survived.
It's interesting if they did manage to adapt to the return of Eurasian otters, since they do share parts of the range in Asia and their diets are not the same. I wonder if anyone has studied them in the last 30 years.
Since it´s a small, isolated population, they certainly would get problems with inbreeding. So, yeah, certainly a short lived phenomenon, yet still remarkable.
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