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The podcast conversation was not limited to music, however, the couple (and his brother) covered a range of topics, everything from Swift's newfound love of football, an obsession for baking sourdough loaves, watching otter videos, her parents' health and the start of the superstars' relationship.
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Rebecca Cohen, NBC news, 14 Aug. 2025
The feces revealed that crabs and finfish were the staples of otter diets, making up 93 percent of all prey items based on the DNA analysis.
—Laura Baisas Aug 14, Popular Science, 14 Aug. 2025
Yeah, Kelce likes otter videos.
—Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 14 Aug. 2025
Having children can be such a basically animal experience that to read about it as performed by otter, whale, or even bird all seems relevant.
—Ellyn Gaydos
august 11, Literary Hub, 11 Aug. 2025
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Rebecca Cohen, NBC news, 14 Aug. 2025
The feces revealed that crabs and finfish were the staples of otter diets, making up 93 percent of all prey items based on the DNA analysis.
—Laura Baisas Aug 14, Popular Science, 14 Aug. 2025
Yeah, Kelce likes otter videos.
—Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 14 Aug. 2025
Having children can be such a basically animal experience that to read about it as performed by otter, whale, or even bird all seems relevant.
—Ellyn Gaydos
august 11, Literary Hub, 11 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for otter
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Along the way, visitors may spot signs of the sanctuary’s most visible resident, the beaver, from impressive dams to cleverly constructed dens and lodges, as well as birds such as the snow goose, lapland longspur, and chimney swift.—
Lauren Dana Ellman,
Travel + Leisure,
27 Sep. 2025
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In this case, the engineers did not reshape logs that had been carved by a beaver.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Sep. 2025
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One side has faux fur with a bubble texture, and the other has a soft micro mink lining.—
Sophia Beams,
Better Homes & Gardens,
27 Sep. 2025
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Ksenia, whom Baranov meets at a hedonistic party in the early 1990s as counterculturals rage amid the dawn of a new, post-USSR Russian era, is indicated as a grifting wild thing, the type who always has a mysterious male benefactor to keep her in minks.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
31 Aug. 2025
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Originally bred in Germany to hunt badgers, these small canines are energetic, bold and stubborn.—
Liz O'Connell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
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Those who are lucky may notice foxes, badgers, otters or deer along the route.—
Jeanine Barone,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, raccoons can carry rabies and roundworm, both of which can be harmful to people.—
Marina Johnson,
Louisville Courier Journal,
3 Oct. 2025
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Some of the terrain includes a waterfall, California live oak trees, sycamore trees, volcanic rocks, a freshwater marsh and locals such as Pacific tree frogs, mallard ducks, raccoons and coyotes.—
Carlos Rico,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Sep. 2025
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Now native Spartina grasses have returned, as have muskrats and threatened bird species.—
Kyra Morris,
The Atlantic,
22 Aug. 2025
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Its voraciousness has threatened native populations of minks, muskrats, and river otters.—
Nathaniel Rich,
Harpers Magazine,
20 Aug. 2025
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Levi studies the endangered Humboldt marten, a small carnivore that lives on the Northern California and Southern Oregon coast.—
Andrew Cunningham,
ArsTechnica,
28 Aug. 2025
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This acquisition will improve the habitat for Wisconsin’s endangered American marten, which has been facing a dwindling habitat.—
Noël Fletcher,
Forbes,
8 Dec. 2024
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Deer and rabbits won't eat them.—
Steve Bender,
Southern Living,
1 Oct. 2025
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Today, Romulus and Remus are reportedly healthy, weighing more than 120 pounds each, and consuming over five pounds of meat daily, which includes venison, beef, and whole rabbits.—
Moná Thomas,
PEOPLE,
1 Oct. 2025
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See it In Thanh Hoa, Vietnam, fishers caught four crab-eating frogs, Fejervarya moodiei, marking the first record of this species in the province.—
Real-Time News team,
Miami Herald,
26 Sep. 2025
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Farmers, fishers, and field workers feel, see and live with the most severe impacts.—
Felipe Arango,
Sourcing Journal,
26 Sep. 2025
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“Otter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/otter. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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