In this adorable video, a mother river otter persuades her reluctant baby to take a swim. The video, as seen on Jane Godley’s YouTube channel, offers a funny scene complete with narration.

A river otter may swim at speeds up to 9.7 km/hr (6 mph), and remain submerged for several minutes at a time, diving 13.7 m (45 ft) or covering 402 m (1320 ft) while submerged. Although river otters ...

River otters are so cute that it’s easy to overlook their bad behavior. But two attacks — rare and separate incidents — have injured women who were out enjoying a swim, turning a summer ...

The National Aquarium confirmed wild river otters are visiting the Harbor Wetland and Inner Harbor, but had advice for human ...

On February 15, the sweet Thai pup enjoyed a relaxing swim with a river otter pal like it was a completely normal thing to do ...

North American river otters once lived in every major river system in Pennsylvania. But because of development, otters ...

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Dr. Martin Rosengreen, the ER physician who treated Finn, said a similar incident involving river otters had occurred two days prior to Finn’s attack. That patient had been swimming in Serene ...

In a rare sighting, a North American river otter was seen swimming this week in a Central Texas lake. According to a social ...

It was less than three years ago that environmental education specialists were officially able to document American river otters ... and an intern spotted an otter swimming last summer in Misery ...

A river otter attacked a child at a marina in Bremerton ... In California, Matt Leffers said he was swimming at Serene Lakes in Placer County last September when otters bit him at least 12 ...