Why Otters are Holding Hands?

Have you ever seen a picture of two otters floating on their backs, holding each other’s paws? If you have, you might have wondered why they do that. Well, it turns out that otters have a very good reason for this adorable behavior: it helps them survive. Otters are semi-aquatic mammals that live in rivers, lakes, and coastal waters. They are very social animals that form groups called rafts, which can consist of a few individuals or up to a hundred. Otters often rest and sleep while floating on the water surface, but they face some challenges in doing so.   First, otters are warm-blooded and…

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When wild loons lost their baby, they chose to adopt an orphaned duckling (4 photos).

Researchers recently went to Long Lake, Wisconsin, in the middle of July. The people who were part of The Loon Project thought they would see a normal day for the birds on the water. But the experts were shocked when a mother loon swam by them slowly with a baby on her back. No, it wasn't a loon. That was a little baby. There was no one in the room who had seen anything like it before. The story was mostly put together by the experts after a lot of careful questioning and observation. The loon couple was already parents before the duckling came along. The…

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There was a video of an elk finally having a tyre taken off its neck after two years. However, he had to take off his antlers first.

Wildlife officials said that an elusive elk that had been walking around the mountains of Colorado for at least two years with a car tyre around its neck had been set free. Colorado Parks and Wildlife says the male elk, which is four and a half years old and weighs 600 pounds, was tranquillized on Saturday evening after being seen near Pine Junction, southwest of Denver. The police couldn't cut through the steel in the tire's bead, so they had to cut off the elk's five-pointed antlers to get rid of the load. "We would have preferred to cut the tyre and leave the antlers for…

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This man has taken his cat on trips in 29 countries. He only needs one more to set a world record (photo).

When the cute tabby cat is in the basket of her owner's motorbike, they can go almost anywhere together, like when Dean is flying an aeroplane and little Nala is following behind, or when Dean and Nala are resting in an igloo.\ Dean Nicholson wanted to ride his bike around the world by himself. He set out in June 2018 with that goal in mind, but in September, three months and nine countries later, he met someone who made him want to keep travelling. Dean saw a cat meowing at him near the line between Bosnia and Montenegro and knew he had to take the cat…

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The baby elephant follows the rescuer everywhere she goes, even to the couch (VIDEO).

The caring Roxy Danckwerts runs a wildlife refuge called Wild Is Life, where she gives animals that have been hurt or left behind a second chance at life. This is a good thing to do anywhere in the world, but Roxy is from Zimbabwe, Africa. With the help of her team, she has helped ostriches, giraffes, and even cheetahs get better. What do they do when they are given a baby elephant in 2016? There is, of course, chaos after that! BBC1 said Moyo was a "tiny" baby elephant when he got to the rescue. He might not have been more than a few days old.…

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LOLITA, the orca whale, may be able to go back to the wild after being locked up at the Miami Seaquarium for 50 years.

It's possible that the old killer whale will soon return to the waters off the coast of the Pacific Northwest, where Lolita's mother is said to still live. Lolita, the killer whale, may go back to the ocean and maybe meet up with her old mother again after being kept as a pet for 52 years. People have been trying for decades to free Lolita, also called Tokitae or Toki, who was taken from the wild and brought to the Miami Seaquarium in 1970. According to The Guardian, they are making success. The article says that the 56-year-old orca has lived and performed in what has…

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