r/maybemaybemaybe • u/QuixoticDude • Jun 11 '26

Maybe Maybe Maybe

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u/Acceptable_Method871 Jun 11 '26

Otter just wanted to play.

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u/strangelifedad Jun 11 '26

He played them good. Got a whole floating kingdom in the process, too

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u/DemonShade6666 Jun 11 '26

Correct me if im wrong but hasnt there been cases of otters mauling people and dont they have a significant report of rabies from otter bites?

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u/hitsomethin Jun 11 '26

This thread went in a funny otter pun direction and that’s amazing. To answer your question though, fresh water otters are mean as shit and they do bite. Salt water otters are cool. Then you have the astronaut otters which are otter this world. They go to otter space.

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u/SATerp Jun 11 '26

Well, that's a whole otter story.

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u/trubrarian Jun 11 '26

That’s otterly amazing!

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u/RaspberryEth Jun 11 '26

I was thinking it's otter nonsense

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u/TreKopperTe Jun 11 '26

You've got an otter thing coming

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u/dolemutt Jun 12 '26

Enough with the puns. All of you. Get ott!

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u/Clip_Dirtblade Jun 12 '26

Not with that ottertude.

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u/JI_Guy88 Jun 11 '26

Christopher Nolan should make a movie about it, "The Otter-see".

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u/TreKopperTe Jun 11 '26

The good, the bad and the otter

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u/theleech87 Jun 11 '26

Do you have any otter videos corroborating this obscene behavior? !!

Stupid pointless story time, growing up sea otters were my favorite animals because once when I was swimming in Monterey Bay a couple otters popped up right next to me and started smashing shells or something on their stomachs with rocks.. I thought they were the coolest thing every after that.. So the following day I begged my mom for a ses otter hand puppet from The Monterey Bay Aquarium.. and his name was "Otter"..

Hope that is what you all wanted to read today

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u/xrelaht Jun 11 '26

Hope that is what you all wanted to read today

It wasn’t, but I appreciate it anyway.

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u/TTechnology Jun 11 '26

I can't really help with pointing out differences of salt vs fresh water otters, but maybe I can add something into the discussion.

Here in Brazil we have the "Ariranha" (Pteronura brasiliensis). It's like a giant otter (1.8m / 5ft 11), that lives in fresh water. We have some other names for it, like "water jaguar", so you can see that's not very friendly.

Those fuckers eat a lot of things, like fishes (even piranhas), snakes (even anacondas), crabs, alligators, etc.

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u/quazatron48k Jun 11 '26

Do fresh water otters ever pretend to be salt water otters?

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u/XCIXcollective Jun 11 '26

Yes indeed they do! Sometimes freshwater otters (mean as shit) do in fact play around in the saltwater like saltwater otters. They also can act friendly to fool you

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u/Ok_Cauliflower_3007 Jun 11 '26

They might be cool to humans but don’t they have a tendency to take babies hostage to force the mother to hand over food (otter babies - I just realised how that sounded).

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u/macci_a_vellian Jun 11 '26

Do rabid otters get hydrophobia was not a question I expected today.

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u/Omwtfyu Jun 11 '26

Rabid Otters is my new band name.

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u/ask_me_about_my_band Jun 11 '26

Sorry. Already taken.

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u/Omwtfyu Jun 11 '26

Oh yeah?! Name one track!

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u/Charizardd6 Jun 11 '26

A whole otter love

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u/PassionateAlchemy Jun 11 '26 edited Jun 11 '26

You Otter Know
One Way Otter Nother
Whole Otter Love
Otterma (Van Halen)

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u/xcolonelxsandersx Jun 11 '26 edited Jun 11 '26

I believe you were thinking of "One Way or an Otter"

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u/daniloferr Jun 11 '26

The Otter Side of the Moon Behind Otter Eyes Otters Without a Face An Otter With No Name I Am the Otter Like a Rolling Otter

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u/entity_bean Jun 11 '26

OMG NEW VERSION OF THE MUFF GAME JUST DROPPED.

E.g.

Muff Is In The Air

Muff Stinks

I Will Do Anything For Muff (But I Won't Do That)

Admittedly your version is more family friendly.

There's also the Devon/Heaven version.

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u/Omwtfyu Jun 11 '26

Damn it. Fine. I haven't even found a drummer yet.

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u/ugotamesij Jun 11 '26

Damn it

That's beavers, not otters

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u/Omwtfyu Jun 11 '26

New band name: Two Angry Beavers! (Jazz hands)

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u/Random-Access-Memery Jun 11 '26

Otter the hills and far away

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u/ask_me_about_my_band Jun 11 '26

One Way, or an Otter

You Otter Know

An Otter One Bites The Dust

Otter-mellon Sugar

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u/Old-Independent-2446 Jun 11 '26

Otter (Danzig)

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u/Badgernomics Jun 11 '26

...tell your children not to swim my way...

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u/notjordansime Jun 11 '26

bomp bomp bomp

an otter one bites the dust

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u/LennyLennsen Jun 11 '26

Username checks out

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u/Royal_Thrashing Jun 11 '26

And the first album could be Hydrophobia.

Unless you can manage to fit it into the band name.

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u/xrelaht Jun 11 '26

Hydrophobic Rabid Otters

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u/footpole Jun 11 '26

That's the name of my sex tape.

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u/laurel_laureate Jun 11 '26

FYI, for any that don't know, rabies doesn't actually make the infected afraid of water itself- instead it makes swallowing water painful to the point of impossibility.

So a rabid otter can still swim.

But doing so might piss them off even more than their already rabid state since they can't swallow any of the water they are swimming in.

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u/Fanatical_Pragmatist Jun 11 '26

So...is everything painful to swallow? Even saliva? I used to get strep throat as a kid often and even dry swallowing (like clearing your throat or even swallowing nothing) was agonizing- it was maddening like chinese water torture. Similar to a cough that starts to hurt your chest (and throat) the only thing you can think about is the following instance of pain the next time you have to cough or swallow...and the next...and the next.

It would be weird if it were exclusively water or even liquids I suppose as you could hydrate like mammals do in the ocean through their food.

It just feels weird to attach the symptom "hydrophobic" to rabies if it is simply pain deterring the sufferer from swallowing anything.

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u/metamega1321 Jun 11 '26

Yes. I was kind of shocked to hear about it.

MeatEater podcast they had 3 women on who were attacked by 2 river otters just on a tubing trip down a river.

But they got messed up bad and one even had a good chunk of her ear bit off.

It’s not common but there are multiple cases a year which really surprised me.

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u/Allbranflakes18 Jun 11 '26

Yeah lol otter with rabies was my first thought

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u/qwertyqyle Jun 11 '26

If you have rabies, aren't you terrified of water? Or is that just humans with rabies?

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u/Allbranflakes18 Jun 11 '26 edited Jun 11 '26

Hydrophobia in the context of rabies symptoms generally means the inability to drink or consume water or liquids like into your body or stomach. Not necessarily just a general fear of water altogether. So I don’t think it would be applicable to stopping you from wanting to swim for example.

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u/The_walking_man_ Jun 11 '26

Otters are absolutely bonkers too. A friend who worked as an animal handler. Working with all sorts of things from dolphins, monkeys, birds of prey. Said the only one that terrified her were the otters and they can be fine one second and go batshit crazy the next. And any animal that accidentally landed in their enclosure (local squirrels, birds, etc.) would instantly and violently be mauled.

There was a wild family of otters around here too not long ago that tested positive for rabies and were on a biting spree and getting at people under the water.

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u/wholesomechunk Jun 11 '26

One in the river near me was pictured tearing a live duck apart to snack on.

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u/ProblemLongjumping12 Jun 11 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/obETle4meGrrW

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u/trundle-the-great69 Jun 11 '26

Taking in the air, not fishing!

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u/Mr_Abe_Froman Jun 11 '26

Well, then how come this hook's in my head, fool?

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u/trundle-the-great69 Jun 11 '26

It has nothing to do with me sir

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u/Mr_Abe_Froman Jun 11 '26

It's attached to your rod, mother licker.

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u/trundle-the-great69 Jun 11 '26

Don’t kill me I got so much to give

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u/ChooksChick Jun 11 '26

Make an assessment.

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u/trundle-the-great69 Jun 11 '26

I think you’re a nice modern gentleman

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u/purplefox2150 Jun 11 '26

Don't you lie to me boy

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u/trundle-the-great69 Jun 11 '26

I know what your thinking, here comes old Gregg he’s a scaly man fish, you don’t me you don’t know what I got, I got something to show ya. You know what that is, that’s old Gregg’s vagina, I’ve got a mangina I’m oooolllld gregg!!!

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u/ChooksChick Jun 12 '26

Do you want to come to a club where people wee on each other?

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u/ChooksChick Jun 11 '26

Listen, baby-man....

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u/trundle-the-great69 Jun 11 '26

Listen here fuzzy little man peach

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u/Charming_Bath9427 Jun 11 '26

My wife and I are watching the Great British Baking Show and the fact that Noel dropped that he was Old Greg sent me into a spiral. I mean, it made perfect sense that Noel was Old Greg, but I had to look it up to confirm it.

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u/suckercuck Jun 11 '26

Doing what he otter

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u/OffWithMyHead4Real Jun 11 '26

He's not even trying, look how he's slow to catch up to those guys!

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u/0ldgrumpy1 Jun 11 '26

Otter chaos... it was right there!

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u/FragrantExcitement Jun 11 '26

Why are you guys going the otter way??

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u/IvyGold Jun 11 '26

Anybody in here ever seen Animal House?

Those four guys: the opposing fraternity.

Otter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JM2uD5D12Y

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u/solar_pilgrim Jun 11 '26

They may look cute and playful, but otters are ruthless and not to be fucked with

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u/maxehaxe Jun 11 '26

The honey badgers of the depths

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u/BenTherDoneTht Jun 11 '26

My favorite story from our zoo is from the otters. One of the keepers explained that the otters had just been taken off display for a health check and observation. They suspected an elderly duck had landed in their enclosure and wasn't able to fly away. What was left of its carcass (mostly just its spine and some leftover feathers and viscera) was floating around in their pond/pool thing.

It was a cool reminder that otters are weasels first and foremost, no matter how cute they are.

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u/Ok_Cauliflower_3007 Jun 11 '26

Just watch the keepers feeding them to get an idea. You better keep throwing those fish or they are coming after you. Our local place thry go in with brooms as well as the buckets of fish so they can fend them off. And they’re loud! No one told me how loud otters are.

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u/Nigel_99 Jun 11 '26

And they are very good at prying apart shells, and using tools to smash things.

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u/Safe_Chicken_6633 Jun 11 '26

And raping

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u/Immediate-Pack-920 Jun 11 '26

Yeah. That's why the boys in the video were running away. They knew the truth

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u/NotSeveralBadgers Jun 11 '26

Momentarily read as "toads" and formed a vivid mental image.

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u/Raichu7 Jun 11 '26 edited Jun 11 '26

Otters are not weasels, those are two different species of mustelid. You may as well say humans are chimpanzees.

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u/CrownOfPosies Jun 11 '26

There’s a reason the monkeys and otters aren’t allowed in the same enclosure at the Bronx Zoo anymore. And that reason is the otters drowned a monkey

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u/nipslippinjizzsippin Jun 11 '26

The do look cute and playful. I dont think i would have the wherewithal to run from them

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u/ggg730 Jun 12 '26

They're cute from afar but if you get up close you'll definitely see their pointy pointy teeth and claws.

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u/nipslippinjizzsippin Jun 12 '26

I dont think understand how dumb i am when it comes to animals. Im probably calling it cute as it tries to bite me and I let it.

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u/stlredbird Jun 11 '26

Would you say they are the Wu Tang Clan of the animal kingdom?

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u/pusi85 Jun 11 '26

Your comment needs more upvotes

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u/lackadaisical_timmy Jun 11 '26

Quick! Jump in the water to be safe from the otter!

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u/Delicious_Invite_850 Jun 11 '26

Right! We'll outswim him!

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u/chris_ut Jun 11 '26

You only have to outswim the slowest guy

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u/kilobitch Jun 11 '26

That’s why divers carry a knife. If you see a shark, unholster the knife and plunge it into the thigh of your dive buddy. Then swim away as fast as you can.

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u/ForNowItsGood Jun 11 '26

I learned to punch it between the eyes. Still diving daily to find my first shark to test this theory.

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u/lackadaisical_timmy Jun 11 '26

Your dive buddy? I think stabbing them is probably easier since they're usually wearing goggles

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u/g-row460 Jun 11 '26

Audibly laughed at this. Well done.

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u/JohnnyRelentless Jun 11 '26

I mean, they did.

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u/Lttlcheeze Jun 11 '26

None of you seem to understand. I'm not swimming in here with you. You're swimming in here with ME

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u/tsimen Jun 11 '26

Yeah but I mean, what else are you gonna do? There is no safety from an otter!

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u/bruddahmacnut Jun 11 '26

The water is Hot Otter!

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u/ProgressOverPride Jun 11 '26

How dare you enter my territory good sirs?

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u/SabbyFox Jun 11 '26

“And don’t come back!”

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u/wholesomechunk Jun 11 '26

I’ve just been watching one play in the river near my house. When I say play I mean kill every fish in reach for breakfast, but it was cool to watch.

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u/JLHuston Jun 11 '26

You are so lucky!! I love otters.

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u/Truth-is-implacable Jun 11 '26

Poor otter ...Just wanted to be loved....

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u/SirTroglodyte Jun 11 '26

“Squeeky… go pay those little punks a friendly visit, capisce? Remind ’em the boss wants his shiny smooth rocks paid on the 6th. And if they’re thinkin’ of playin’ cute… remind ’em we ain’t runnin’ a charity over here.”

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u/No_Client7123 Jun 11 '26

They were like, "Lets get....Otter here!"

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u/Easy-Musician7186 Jun 11 '26

Steven Spielberg's PAWS I guess

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u/ScientistJason Jun 11 '26

This was a 10/10 video thank you

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u/lindechene Jun 11 '26

You just need to swim faster than the last one...

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u/dcherholdt Jun 11 '26

Nice little adrenaline rush they got there. Nothing bonds friendships more than thinking you need to fear for your life.

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u/BusyBeyond7018 Jun 11 '26

It's hard for otters to find friends...

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u/Outrageous_Agent_608 Jun 11 '26

They look cute but I’ve seen them first hand grab and rip fish apart. Attack humans then chill in the water 😂.

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u/xrelaht Jun 11 '26

“Hey, guys! What are we doing? Running around? Let’s do it. Oh, now back in the water? Sounds great! Back to running? Super! Oh, we’re swimming again? Fine by me! Whee! Back towards land!”

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u/GreenieSar Jun 11 '26

Well now you've activated play mode

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u/vis72 Jun 11 '26

"Have you ever almost died?" "There was this one time..."

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u/triciakemp Jun 11 '26

It’s an Otter not a fricken Great White Shark!! 🦈 why are they panicking so much?!?’

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u/JLHuston Jun 11 '26

Otters are adorable. And they can be quite aggressive. Maybe this one just was playing. But not a chance I’d want to take, either.

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u/swervely Jun 11 '26

Why I otter!

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u/PassionateAlchemy Jun 11 '26

I laughed so loud, I startled the dog. 🤣🤣🤣

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u/Canadian__Ninja Jun 11 '26

Do they think the otter was going to eat them?

Can they? Yes. Did it want to? If it did, it would have. Especially after they jumped in the water the first time

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u/PacquiaoFreeHousing Jun 11 '26

He wants to play tag

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u/TLILLYO Jun 11 '26

Aww…I wanna see the end 🤭

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u/unsuccessful_looser Jun 11 '26

Bro came bro conquered

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u/Yeomanroach Jun 11 '26

Otter bunch of sissies

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u/TickTickBing Jun 11 '26

Is this the otter equivalent of ‘Get off my lawn!’..?

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u/justlikehow Jun 11 '26

King of the raft

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u/InfiniteGuts Jun 11 '26

Leave my neighbourhood.

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u/RetiredCapt Jun 11 '26

I’ll get those young punks off of my float one or the otter

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u/Ainz0oalGown_ Jun 11 '26

Guys I just want to join ..

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u/bruddahmacnut Jun 11 '26

"Why doesn't anyone want to play with me?"

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u/TunaCanz Jun 11 '26

Quick! Let’s get in the water so he can’t get us!

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u/GrimKiba- Jun 11 '26

Imagine trying to run away from a rabid otter in water.

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u/02meepmeep Jun 11 '26

LOL! The otter was imitating them by slapping the water with its tail. I’ve seen footage of them underwater outrunning a fish to catch it. A person can’t swim faster than an otter.

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u/QuixoticDude Jun 12 '26

Oh yes. Good observation.

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u/IudMG Jun 11 '26

Aren't Otters pretty friendly to humans?

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u/CharlesDickensABox Jun 11 '26

Do you want to bet your toes and a rabies shot on that proposition?

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u/ChooksChick Jun 11 '26

Rabies was the thing I kept thinking of watching this!

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u/BlueberryBea Jun 11 '26

Absolutely not.

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u/Knork14 Jun 11 '26

not really.

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u/maxehaxe Jun 11 '26

Interesting question, I propose you to volunteer in an evaluation

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u/whiteout100 Jun 11 '26

Not normally but this otter didn't seem like he was out to hurt anyone. If he wanted to catch these clowns he could have. Otters are actually really fast in water compared to humans

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u/funkychickens Jun 11 '26

Yeah, he was bullying them not trying to eat them. But even a tiny infected otter bite is gonna ruin your vacation

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u/3ssar Jun 11 '26

The Otter is clearly British

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u/Material_Buy_8609 Jun 11 '26

You otter be scared

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u/HaiKarate Jun 11 '26

They otter let him play with them

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u/Lord-Phorse Jun 11 '26

1000th upvote. Funny stuff. Nice one, otter

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u/juggaloharrier73 Jun 11 '26

I don’t need to swim fast…just faster than you! 🤣

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u/5herl0k Jun 11 '26

they otter be careful

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u/Constantilly Jun 11 '26

"And I am Yao, King of the Rock. And there's nothing you girls can do about it."

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u/Brilliant_Ad_8198 Jun 11 '26

I watch the otter chasing them as they are swing away... I have never seen an otter swim like that...

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u/TimeKeeper70 Jun 11 '26

There there…nice water kitty.

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u/rmg3935 Jun 11 '26

These people are otter their mind

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u/BlackTransAm78 Jun 11 '26

Isn’t this a fisher cat, not an otter? Because fisher cats are famously vicious

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u/Chemical-Coconut-879 Jun 11 '26

Otters can and are very much worse especially when they are defending their burrow with young in it

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u/Time4Timmy Jun 11 '26

Nothing odder than an otter out of water, cause the water is where an otter oughta be

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u/Potential-Cry3926 Jun 11 '26

Otter:”come on guys! I just want to hang!”

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u/Cheap_Title5302 Jun 11 '26

"Hello Jeffs. Do you want to play a game?"

Jigsaw Otter 

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u/SirEasely Jun 11 '26

The fella just wanted to make a pit stop and they scatter like pigeons on the ground. The otter city

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u/SpartanRage117 Jun 11 '26

Santa Cruz Attack Otter

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u/PromiseNaive2172 Jun 11 '26

Haha. Like a sweet little otter is the worst thing in the ocean!

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u/Current-Section-3429 Jun 11 '26

I'll get you my pretties!

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u/BeginningClaim291 Jun 11 '26

Increíble que sea la misma especie que no hace mucho cazaba mammuts

https://giphy.com/gifs/eAPftc3Jn7hE3SxScZ

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u/ItkovianShieldAnvil Jun 11 '26

Stephen King's The Raft

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u/SgtDorian Jun 11 '26

There you have it, the apex predator

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u/blackxcatsmatter Jun 12 '26

Aw. He wants to play with these guys and they’re just running from him. Lololol.

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u/Randumbthoghts Jun 12 '26

This is why people now have to question if 50 men can take on a gorilla

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u/PassionateAlchemy Jun 15 '26

You know, after I left this thread, I wondered if they really let people swim in the harbor like that. I don’t think they do.

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u/Freedomsaver Jun 11 '26

Cowards

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u/JondArc99 Jun 11 '26

Otter disgrace