Now I'm sitting here on the toilet wondering how many otters I could take on...
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And as you sit there deep in thought you feel something tickle your nethers, you think little of it at first but as soon as you feel it again you shift your position and look down. At the same moment your mind comprehends that it's the hand of an otter, that very hand grabs ahold of your dangling valuables and pulls. You are never seen again.
I read this in the Baldur's Gate 3 narrator voice.
Would you rather take on 30 otter-sized horses, or one horse-sized otter?
Horses. They're built like birds.
Atleast 0.5
That lady handled 40, but she's a jogger and in better shape than me. I could take 25.
She lost to 8 bro, you'd get ripped to shreds
Oh shit I read it wrong, she's 40 years old.
Yeah so like 5
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Wow, talk about some blatant dog whistling here...
Inner-city otters? Why not just call them musteld hoodlums? Or shrimp theiving thugs?
How much you wanna bet that if this was an artic fox, or polar bear attack, the words inner city would never have appeared in this article...
How much you wanna bet that if this was an artic fox, or polar bear attack, the words inner city would never have appeared in this article…
Ok, that's fair, but polar bears and arctic foxes aren't known to frequent the tropics.
Probably because people like you make them feel unwelcome.
Did you ever stop and think that if you made them feel comfortable, that they might visit more often?
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That lady knows what she did.
Someone was probably mean to them but it wasn't her. She is also not the first to be attacked.
She described finding herself suddenly surrounded by the pack after they “jumped out” from a drain in Perdana Park at about 6am local time.
“At first, I thought it was a cat, but the creature jumped out and bit me while I was running, and there were many of them ... I could not even stand up when it happened,” she told local media.
You would take thae human's side. Whatever. You hairless apes are all the same.
All I know is that no otter ever did me wrong. As long as I could fly away fast enough.
That's otterly ridiculous!
Despite their somewhat cuddly appearance, otters have teeth and jaws that are strong enough to crack open ~~shellfish~~ human fucking skulls.
I once got to go behind the scenes at a zoo, including their vet’s operating room. They had a bunch of interesting stories about how they tranq and operate on different animals of various sizes, but the worst experience they had was with an otter.
Poor little guy woke up partway through surgery, panicked, and went fucking berserk. Those little claws left gouges a foot long and an inch deep in the vet. And then, because they’re so small and fast, trying to re-anaesthetize it was a huge pain.
Anyways, I think about that story a lot when I hear about otters.
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And They're in the same family as weasels, honey badgers, and wolverines.
Orcas, eagles, otters. I’m just glad my house cat is indifferent to politics
Otters, and eagles and orcas, oh my!
Love how nature is fighting back lol
They know
Locals, prepare for otter devastation!
And what causes this behavior?
She is part of a planning committee trying to tear down some old abbey.
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slick dark hair
50s greaser gang?
Off to reclaim the Tears of All Oceans
I'm otterly shocked! 😧
Btw in the local language their name can also mean something like "warring" so that kinda tells you something.
Otters are not built for speed on land. If you've seen one run, you know it's and awkward hop-hop-hop movement. This lady couldn't outrun them? Law of nature comes into play I guess.
Nah, the slow hop-hop-hop is like a jog. Mustelids can fucking zoom if they're in danger or after prey. Like, even dopey-ass domesticated ferrets can get going pretty damn quick when they've been hurt or feel threatened. Nobody has posted what species of otter attacked this lady, but river otters can reach speeds of 47 kph (29 mph) on land. Sea otters are slow and fat, but these weren't sea otters.
You aren't outrunning a pack of otters in a sprint. It's no question that you could outrun them over a long distance, but mustelids are zoomy little fuckers.
(note that I like mustelids and had 4 ferrets, so please don't mistake my tone as being sour on them)
EDIT: holy shit, ferrets can be bred and trained to run at like 22 mph. That's insane!
Huh, I didn't know that. I couldn't see anything in that article so just used what I had seen. Thanks for the info.
No worries. Mustelids aren't very well understood by the general populace, so I don't hold it against anyone.
Here's a still frame of the otters in question. I'm betting they could quickly surprise and surround anyone they caught alone. And would have no problem giving chase on land.
It was a gang that was clearly lying in wait and.simultaneously jumped out of the bushes to surround her. Should have just gave them her wallet.
Its maul or be mauled in the Animal Kingdom. That's just Nature's nature
It's more painful if it was lions. Like if a lion is attacking you and then an otter lion shows up you're screwed.
Otters are assholes
Meh, my bet's on people being the assholes, and other species getting shafted in every aspect by us, and some are annoyed by it.
This is anthropomorphic thinking. But in order to express the concept that aggressions and other interactions could increase toward species who have built their overinflated infrastructures across migration paths, territories or outright destroyed swathes of habitat of other species, yeh they probably are hella angry at these stupid hairless apes.
Thank you for 'splaining my pretty little head full of your nutritious facts.
I mean, some people are, for sure, but otters are full of parasites because they party in their own shit, and their mating practices are... somewhat upsetting to say the least.
Otters are assholes.
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