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Recent Examples of ottersAs the two boys leaned over the dock to watch, Lee threw his arm down into the water and the otter jumped up and bit his hand.—Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025 There’s an art gallery, the Birds of Prey Center, an otter exhibit, and Desertarium, which features turtles, snakes, lizards, frogs, and more.—Lauren Jones, Travel + Leisure, 20 Sep. 2025 After 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
The research highlights the plight of Arctic seals, which rely on sea ice for breeding and raising their pups, and use it to rest and access foraging areas.
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Nell Lewis,
CNN Money,
10 Oct. 2025
Aside from hotel-quality designs, the bedding brand takes pride in their fair-trade practices and non-toxic materials, and has earned seals for Fair Trade Certified and Global Organic Textile Standards (GOTS).
One side has faux fur with a bubble texture, and the other has a soft micro mink lining.
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Sophia Beams,
Better Homes & Gardens,
27 Sep. 2025
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.
Animals that typically carry rabies are bats, raccoons, skunks, and foxes.
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Jasmine Laws,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Oct. 2025
Like a faulty fire hydrant, or a vacuum cleaner whizzing up and down with the uncontrollable hysteria of a feral raccoon, our directive was to suck up as many clicks as possible through every angle imaginable.
Citing the Iquique Fishermen's Federation in the northern Chilean port city, Radio Bío-Bío reported that local fishers have not encountered Humboldt squid for three months, as Chinese vessels were suspected of disrupting the squid's migration toward the coast.
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Ryan Chan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Oct. 2025
Money speaks, the land listens, where the Anarchist skulked, where the horsethief plied his trade, we fishers of Americans will cast our nets of perfect ten-acre mesh, leveled and varmint-proofed, ready to build on.
Endurance wasn’t crushed all at once, but instead ground down into a twist of wood and metal over the course of several weeks, like a rabbit in the clutches of a boa constrictor.
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Frederick Dreier,
Outside,
7 Oct. 2025
There’s a haunted corn maze, marigold fields, bounceland, Jurassic Fright, a tractor ride and sheep, goats and rabbits.
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Ut Community Press,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 Oct. 2025
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