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What do you like about hairy nosed otters? I like their hairy noses.
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whoa! Look at those big whiskers!
That distinguished gentleman with the impressive whiskers is smoking a cigar, correct? That's what I see.
A very special kind of wild-growing cigar
This is the rarest otter, but they are the only extant otter in the same genus (Lutra
) as the Eurasian otter, the most widespread otter.
These otters are seriously under-appreciated.>live in swamp forests of south east Asia
>were declared extinct in 1998, later rediscovered
>basically nobody knows anything about them because they're so rare and hard to observe in the wild
>they're only spotted once every few decades
>only one captive specimen exists (the other one died)
>But have also been found living in palm oil plantationsMakes one think they're not actually that rare, just good at hiding from us. They probably have their reasons.
>Makes one think they're not actually that rare, just good at hiding from us. They probably have their reasons.Good reasons.
Just playing hard to get
That too ;)
What does it mean to "get" an otter? To get
as in to understand
?
Great q, otternon.
Can anyone truly understand an Otter?
Otters remain hopeful, but still lack concrete evidence.
There's no way to physically "get" an otter, because even if you capture it, its spirit will remain free.
This truly is the hope of the world.
