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Recent Examples of ottersAfter a long day, the otter rests in bed with his owner, Hadsell.—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 19 Aug. 2025 Swift herself broke back in to say that Kelce doesn’t want to take an otter out of the wild, as in taking a pup from its mother.—Martha Ross, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2025 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.—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 An otter captured in a box also plays a key role in the film.—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Sealing up door jambs, window seals and other entry points, as well as placing screens on windows and doors, can also be effective.
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Melissa Rudy,
FOXNews.com,
4 Sep. 2025
In addition to this, using excessive water or harsh chemical cleaners can then lead to moisture accumulation around window seals, which can potentially cause mould growth or deterioration of the frame around the windows.
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.
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Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
31 Aug. 2025
On the smaller side, species like the river otter and mink can be found feasting on fish by the water’s edge, while lucky visitors may catch a glimpse of a wolverine roaming the tundra—and these are far from the only predators that call Katmai home.
Combs and her colleagues ultimately called the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, which took the baby raccoon to a local veterinarian.
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Toria Sheffield,
PEOPLE,
7 Sep. 2025
The cake has three candles, but the raccoon seems afraid of the flame, so a human helps blow them out for him; then the raccoon starts eating the cake with his tiny hands.
Surprisingly, local fishers described the species as an occasional bycatch when targeting fish part of the Sciaenidae family to the authors of a new study highlighting this find, led by Jack Sagumai of WWF Pacific.
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Melissa Cristina Márquez,
Forbes.com,
28 Aug. 2025
Through radio and snow tracking, biologists later found that the fishers that were released in northwestern Connecticut had high survival rates and successfully reproduced.
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Stephen Underwood,
Hartford Courant,
5 Aug. 2025
During the voyage, travelers can spend time spotting wildlife like Arctic foxes, whales, polar bears, and more, and explore the harsh landscape by zodiac boat, kayaking, and snowshoeing.
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Katie Nadworny,
Travel + Leisure,
9 Sep. 2025
Those who are lucky may notice foxes, badgers, otters or deer along the route.
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