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North American River Otters… Were Busy? — 7 Comments

  1. Cool! Our Cincinnati Zoo has a great reptile room, but there are no openings visible like that. I\’m not exactly fearful of snakes, either, but having a screen like that on my side of the enclosure seems a bit perturbing. Great photos! And that is interesting about the otters. I didn\’t know they were rough at mating time.

    • Thank you! I\’d love to see the Cincinnati Zoo. We\’ll have to go one day. I wonder where they feed them from? Maybe somewhere hidden in the back of the enclosure?

      I didn\’t know that about otters, either. They seemed intent on curling up on each other, or at least the grumpy one did, but they were over in a shadowed corner so for all I know, it was the boy and he was trying to whisper enticingly in the girl\’s ear and she wasn\’t havin\’ none o\’ that funny business. 🙂

  2. The Petco near me has Ball Pythons. They are supposed to be a good snake for a first time owner and don\’t get that big (in python terms). I really liked them and thought about getting one but my then room mate said that if I brought a snake in the house he would leave. My current room mate doesn\’t like them either. I saw a monster reticulated python at the Field Museum and its size just bowled me over! Would have liked to see the one you took pictures of!

    • He\’s at Brookfield, so you can see him next time you go. I believe he\’s in the Reptile House. I get confused, because there are two. (And two retics; they have a baby one in the other house.) But he\’s in the big one along the back wall down from the aquarium building, near the Galapagos turtles.

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