Otterses!

[baratron]

Some more photos for you to enjoy:
Another plushtrip: Dino Trip 3: Dino goes to Brighton

And live mammals: Photos from the New Forest Otter & Owl Park. Features badgers, foxy, deer, polecat, ferrets, pine marten, a harvest mouse, wallaby, lynx, and boars - plus Asian Short-clawed, Canadian and European otters. rowan_leigh likes the boars :)

Otter going in the water.

I remain less good at photographing live animals because they have a tendency to move, but I took 200 photos & just posted the best ones :) You can click on the pictures in the gallery to get 1024 x 768 versions - if you want higher resolution copies of any of them, comment here & I'll email the 2272 x 1704 version to you. I also have more pictures of some of the animals if you can cope with motion blur and underexposure.

Comments

[bethdeth.livejournal.com]

I love otters. I shook an otter's hand- err, paw once in '91 at the otherwise dismal B'ham zoo. The conditions they had those poor animals in...dreadful.

[baratron.livejournal.com]

These otterses are well looked after - they have a large indoor and outdoor area that they can go between at will. The Asian short-claws are kept in large family groups because that's what they prefer, and the Canadian and European otters are in pairs.

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

HEE!! Otters are so awesome. I'd never seen them in person until earlier this year in Montreal. I just about exploded from the cuteness. I love the serious/determined look on their faces, especially in Otter going in the water, and Otter coming out of house. That's the expression Brucey has almost all the time, and it looks almost exactly the same on him.

And they have such adorable little ears!

[judiff]

the ballerina bunny still doesn't have like a proper name but "kung-fu ballernina bunny" is like her offical title.
The otters and that are cute but i really hope you asren't going to brake out in chronic ferrets like oilrig's friend did.