Otters are awesome. Our zoo is talking about getting river otters sometime, and I can't wait.
Eeee.
When I went to the aquarium in New Orleans with Marsilia, they had these absurdly gigantic sea otters who were doing enrichment by playing with blocks of ice that had toys and food frozen inside of them. It was a lot of fun to watch them rolling around and bashing the ice to get things out.
So now they are just dirt-covered English people in fur pelts with credit cards.
Unfortunately the Philadelphia fans boo the otters and throw beer cups at them every time they miss a slide.
Those aren't just otters. Those are Philly's Giant Otters. Very few zoos ( in the US at least) have giant otters and they are very cool. (Though very smelly for the record). I enjoy seeing them on the occasions we get to the Philly zoo. They're as playful as their much small cousins.