While out cruising the shoreline of the Pigeon River last night we had a surprise encounter with a group of otters. We first spotted them near the mouth of the river as we were heading upstream. As we motored upriver the otters were working their way upstream as well, along the bank of the river. Every now and then they would climb up on shore and wander their way through the trees. At first it only seemed like there were a couple of them. However, as we got closer we realized there were 6 or 7 of them!
That's when things got interesting. I don't know what happened but one of them got on the nerves of another one and before we knew it all of them came running quickly down the bank and into the river. Once they were in the water they were snarling at each other and splashing around violently. This lasted for about a minute then they broke apart and swam back towards the mouth of the river. There was one straggler, who seemed to look at us as if thinking "What the heck just happened?" During the melee I was shooting a video which didn't turn out all that great buy my consolation prize for the subpar video was this otter posing very nicely for his photograph to be taken :-)
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