Otters at the Canberra Zoo

Hey, it could have been a very different kind of film if Cheesetoasters had gone in for the pat …!

Well, I am shocked …. Reconfiguring …. Reconfiguring ….

Gerry-Built said :

The NZ&A needs meerkats… meerkats are soooooooooooooo funny.

+1!

It’s true – Otters while very cute are also very vicious!

they’ll do you a treat mate!

I wonder if we’ll see a series called Otter Omnibus or something? Meerkat Manor was the best thing on TV a few years back. That Flower was an absolute nazi.

Otters are almost amphibious Meerkats.

‘Apparently they’re like land-based piranhas and will have your finger off quicker than Milat on a slow day in chokey.’

That is VERY clever!

Aww so cute. I love meerkats too.

I don’t believe you! This calls for an experiment. I just need a volunteer.

I’m not a huge fan of zoos but the Mogo Zoo is absolutely superb and well worth a visit if you’re in that part of the world (about 20-ish kms south of Batemans Bay). The otters there are similarly capable of happily distracting anyone for copious amounts of time with their antics. You can spend a whole day there just drifting around for enclosure to enclosure with extremely authoritative commentary by the zoo personnel.

A warning: do not even think for a minute of trailing a hand into the otter enclosure. Apparently they’re like land-based piranhas and will have your finger off quicker than Milat on a slow day in chokey.

toriness said :

vicious beasts. worse than a great white shark.

*guffaw*

Oh, I do hope that’s a trivia question!

Gerry-Built said :

meerkats are soooooooooooooo funny.

The meerkats at Dubbo zoo are awesome. You can sit there and watch them all day.

vicious beasts. worse than a great white shark.

What? Otters?

i love the otters at the zoo the best too!!!! i don’t reckon you’d want to fall in their enclosure though – all over red rover.

The NZ&A needs meerkats… meerkats are soooooooooooooo funny.

Cajun Squirrel crisps!

*hehe*

Surely they wouldn’t dare!

They probably taste like ferrets. Fishy ferrets.

Might end up on the shelves next to the hedgehog flavoured crisps.

http://www.childofthe1980s.com/2009/01/15/hedgehog-flavoured-crisps/

Oh, BerraBoy68, you so do not know that!!

: o

Granny said :

I like otters because they know how to have fun.

And they taste like chicken.

I like otters because they know how to have fun.

Otters are cool. They are the most entertaining thing at the zoo.

I like otters. They’re such weird looking creatures, with some very clever tricks like using rocks to open crabs.

I caused considerable amusement at ski school line up at a big resort in the US some years back, as we were discussing how it was that beginners approaching the meeting point always were obviously beginners. My contribution: “You can always tell they’re beginners, as they carry their equipment like a bundle of firewood, and angry greased otters”. Next time you go skiing, watch the first-timers trying to wrangle their gear out of the rental shop.