I am sure I am the last person on Planet Earth to see this streaming video, but just in case I am not, I thought I'd share it with you. This is a pair of otters, one of which survived the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska, that live at the Vancouver Aquarium. They are floating around their tank, asleep and holding paws. Why would they hold paws like this? Is it so a mated pair can remain together on rough seas? Or maybe you have another idea -- well, besides giving the watching public something to oooo and aaaa over!
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I feel a little bad sometimes that I don't really give the Pip his due on the blog. Back when SteelyKid was a toddler and pre-schooler, I had a lot more free time in which to transcribe the various conversations I had with her into super-cute blog posts.
Actually, Hey Sarah, talk to the paw! - the Polar Bear paw!
She seemed like any other ordinary three-month-old kitten but she wasn't.
Still friday mountain high, and proposal season is finally over, for now.
So we bounce to the Mighty iPod and ask breezily: will Phoenix dig up evidence for life at last?
Whoosh goes the randomizer.
Whoosh.
Sorry, I'm no ethologist :/ But alone in the face of a strange public, their love conquers all! :)
They do this so they can stay together while they sleep. Apparently they will "raft" together like this in larger groups as well.
A mother otter will also wrap herself and her baby in seaweed to keep them together on the ocean while they sleep.