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What do you like about hairy nosed otters? I like their hairy noses.
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What do you like about hairy nosed otters? I like their hairy noses.
whoa! Look at those big whiskers!
This is the rarest otter, but they are the only extant otter in the same genus (Lutra
) as the Eurasian otter, the most widespread otter.
These otters are seriously under-appreciated.>live in swamp forests of south east Asia
>were declared extinct in 1998, later rediscovered
>basically nobody knows anything about them because they're so rare and hard to observe in the wild
>they're only spotted once every few decades
>only one captive specimen exists (the other one died)
>But have also been found living in palm oil plantationsMakes one think they're not actually that rare, just good at hiding from us. They probably have their reasons.