Otter-cam

Posted by Queuebot in Animal on February 21, 2009 at 1:40 pm


Wildlife photographer Enrique Aguirre was on a boat piloted by Captain Yohn Gideon with other photojournalists when they spotted an otter in the water with something odd in its paws …

“I was like, did I actually see an otter with a video camera or was I hallucinating?” he said.

The screen on Aguirre’s digital camera soon confirmed what he’d seen: an otter floating on its back, video camera grasped in its paws, lens aimed at the boat of excited photographers. The humans had a bad angle, but Aguirre managed to snap a single clear shot before the otter dived, video camera in tow.

“He’s the only one who got the photo,” Gideon said.

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10 comments to "Otter-cam"

  1. mu
    February 21st, 2009 at 3:15 pm

    Great, life is imitating South Park. I for one welcome our otter overlords, they certainly can't make a bigger mess of things than humans have.

  2. ziggystardust
    February 21st, 2009 at 4:37 pm

    "You otter be in pictures" <- So bad it is good.

  3. zav
    February 21st, 2009 at 4:46 pm

    I, for one, support our new otteresque overlords.

  4. Ali S.
    February 21st, 2009 at 5:28 pm

    In before someone makes a Soviet joke!

    In Soviet Russia otter takes picture of you!

  5. Sandra Lira
    February 21st, 2009 at 5:36 pm

    That's so cool! The otter must have been using it to crack shells open with. Is there a larger image somewhere?

  6. sw
    February 21st, 2009 at 6:15 pm

    I'm voting viral ad, but what on earth for?

  7. renderanything
    February 21st, 2009 at 8:39 pm

    They must be incredibly advanced to invent a waterproof camera with electronics that are impervious to salt water. I knew they were clever, but not that they had developed a high-tech spy corps.

  8. zav
    February 21st, 2009 at 9:40 pm

    Ali - you forgot step 3.

    3. Profit!

  9. Oomi
    February 21st, 2009 at 11:15 pm

    Drat those Otter spies!

  10. Jim
    February 22nd, 2009 at 8:21 am

    Maybe it wasn't random that the otter was holding the camera, over time it noticed that some species (us) kept holding up some device (cameras) and one happend to be laying on the bottom of the ocean so picked it up to mimic the action....thinking it might be some form of saying hello, maybe.


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