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Giant otter (Pteronura brasiliensis)

Giant river otter (Pteronura brasiliensis)

Giant river otter (Pteronura brasiliensis)

Giant river otter (Pteronura brasiliensis)

Serving as the official successor to the 2020 thread What is your favorite species of otter?; which was one of the first threads I ever posted on this site. This thread, like its predecessor, asks the simple question as to what your top five species of otters are*. As usual, here’s my answer...

Previously home to 1.0 Giant Otter (Pteronura brasiliensis)

Giant otters (Pteronura brasiliensis)

Giant otters (Pteronura brasiliensis)

The enclosure for giant otters at Yorkshire Wildlife Park, part of South America Viva!.

Currently: * Western pygmy marmoset (Cebuella pygmaea) - Batu Secret Zoo * Silvery marmoset (Mico argentatus) - Faunaland * Common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) - Siantar Zoo, Cikao Park Purwakarta, and Batu Secret Zoo * Black-tufted marmoset (Callithrix penicillata) - Batu Secret Zoo *...

I was curious about the population of giant otters in European zoos. I saw that there was no thread for this yet so I did some research myself. I like to have this thread to list the current population of giant otters in European zoos, discuss about them and get news of them. There are...

Compare this to early photos of the exhibit-matured pretty nicely.

Pteronura brasiliensis.

Pteronura brasiliensis.

Pteronura brasiliensis.

Pteronura brasiliensis.

The pool could be bigger...

A flying visit to the zoo in lovely sunshine this afternoon, staying just long enough to check out the completed giant otter pool redevelopment and the progress being made to the site of the old otter/coati enclosure and aviaries. Otters first, and I have mixed feelings about the way the...